Director, People & Organization (P&O) Business Partner - HR

Novartis • East Hanover, NJ

1d • $152,600 - $283,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, People & Organization (P&O) Business Partner for US Commercial serves as a strategic co-architect of the business, partnering with senior leaders to shape and execute workforce, talent, and organizational strategies. This role drives organizational performance, transformation and future readiness by integrating business strategy with people, structure and capability decisions, leveraging data, AI-driven insights and external market intelligence. You will continuously build and apply AI and data fluency to reshape how work, talent, and decisions are executed. You will provide strategic consultation to senior leaders in the newly created US Strategy, Platforms & Transformation (SPT) and Insights & Analytics (I&A) functions in the US Commercial business and partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders including P&O colleagues in COEs and the NOCCs(Novartis Operations Centers) that support the US business located in India, Mexico and Ireland to shape and execute on the business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with Advanced degree (MBA, MA/MS in HR, Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology or related field) preferred
• 10+ years of progressive experience in HR / P&O / Talent roles with proven track record partnering with senior executives (VP/SVP level) with experience
• Executive Coaching and influencing without authority
• Extensive experience in Strategic Workforce Planning with long-term workforce strategy aligned with business and market dynamics
• Organizational Design & Effectiveness – Proven ability to design and implement operating models at scale
• Digital & AI Fluency – Strong understanding and experience with digital, automation, and AI-driven workforce transformation and advanced capability to leverage data for predictive insights and decision-making
• Executive Coaching –Proven ability to influence and coach senior leaders effectively
• Fluency in English both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the SPT and I&A leadership teams by shaping and challenging business strategy through workforce, talent, organizational, market, and data-driven insights, translating business priorities into actionable P&O strategies aligned with enterprise direction.
• Lead strategic workforce planning to build future-critical capabilities and execute global build, buy, and borrow talent strategies aligned with business growth, product, data, and digital priorities.
• Lead end-to-end organizational design and operating model evolution, translating structures, roles, governance, decision rights, and ways of working into improved business performance, workflows, talent movements, and performance mechanisms.
• Lead enterprise transformation initiatives by translating strategy into measurable, sustained change across structure, culture, and ways of working, while partnering with business leaders to navigate complexity, ambiguity, and resistance.
• Operate as an AI-augmented P&O Business Partner by embedding AI, automation, advanced analytics, and P&O technology into workforce planning, talent decisions, org design, and enterprise initiatives to improve decision quality, transform workflows, enhance efficiency and experience, and advance human–AI workforce integration.
• Act as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger, elevating leadership impact.
• Own critical talent identification, development, retention, and succession strategies to build strong leadership and capability pipelines while anticipating and mitigating talent risks in competitive and transformation contexts.
• Shape a high-performance, accountable, inclusive, and innovation-driven culture aligned to business objectives and Novartis values, enabling agility, execution excellence, employee empowerment, and ownership of outcomes across the business and P&O ecosystem.
• Act as the single point of accountability for end-to-end P&O outcomes, orchestrating delivery across COEs, NOCCs, and external partners while ensuring quality, timeliness, business alignment, trusted relationships, and clear performance accountability across the P&O ecosystem.

Benefits

• health
• life and disability benefits
• a 401(k) with company contribution and match
• a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director