WORKFORCE STRATEGY HEAD, ENTERPRISE DATA SCIENCE & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (DSAI)
About The Position
Lead Novartis’s enterprise people and organization agenda for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), translating the DSAI ambition into workforce, organization, talent and capability choices. Partner with senior DSAI leaders and stakeholders across the enterprise to build, attract and grow critical DSAI talent, strengthen the external value proposition, and enable responsible human-AI collaboration. Lead the enterprise DSAI OTR, including discussions at ECN level, and create standards, governance and frameworks for careers, capabilities, talent and rewards, particularly in areas where established approaches do not yet exist. The enterprise role complements the Workforce Strategy Leads supporting DSAI teams within their units. Unit-level accountabilities remain unchanged; this role connects across units by providing overarching DSAI people strategy, standards and governance, and enabling enterprise-level choices where needed. The role can be based in Cambridge, East Hanover, London or Basel, and is hybrid. The position sets enterprise strategy and shapes workforce and capability choices using scenarios, analytics, external insight and data storytelling. It leads enterprise talent review and presents implications and recommendations to ECN; establishes career development, mobility, succession and talent-allocation approaches; builds the external DSAI talent brand and early-talent pipeline; and develops enterprise standards, governance and operating approaches. The role also defines enterprise-unit decision rights and interfaces, influences senior stakeholders across functions and units, guides work redesign for responsible human-AI collaboration, and coaches leaders through transformation and organizational change.
Requirements
- Extensive progressive P&O/HR experience, including strategic partnership with executive and ECN-1 leaders in a complex global matrix.
- Strong organization design, strategic workforce planning and transformation experience, including scenario development and enterprise trade-off recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience creating global or enterprise-wide people strategies, standards, governance or programs, rather than only implementing established solutions.
- Evidence of leading enterprise talent reviews, succession and capability discussions with senior executive forums.
- Demonstrated ability to influence multiple senior stakeholders across business units, functions, countries and P&O disciplines without formal authority.
- Fluency in people analytics and confidence with AI-enabled tools, responsible AI principles and emerging work technologies.
- Relevant university degree or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience translating emerging technology, data science or digital strategy into workforce, organization and talent implications; direct DSAI sector experience is highly desirable.
- Advanced qualification in business, organization, analytics, technology or a related discipline.
Responsibilities
- Set the enterprise DSAI people and organization strategy across workforce, organization, leadership, culture, talent and capability.
- Shape strategic workforce and capability choices using scenarios, analytics, external insight and data storytelling; recommend choices on organization design, skills, capacity, location, sourcing and workforce mix.
- Lead the enterprise DSAI OTR, integrate perspectives across units, and present talent implications, choices and recommendations to ECN.
- Establish differentiated DSAI career development, mobility, succession and talent-allocation mechanisms.
- Build Novartis’s external DSAI talent brand and pipeline through engagement with universities, specialist talent networks and external forums, including early-talent pathways.
- Design enterprise DSAI standards, governance, rewards approaches, career architecture, capability frameworks, talent programs and operating approaches.
- Connect enterprise strategy and unit execution by defining decision rights, interfaces and governance complementary to unchanged unit-level P&O accountabilities.
- Influence senior enterprise stakeholders across R&D, Commercial, Operations, Global Functions, GDC, unit P&O Business Partners and Expertise Hubs to resolve enterprise trade-offs.
- Redesign organization, roles and workflows to support responsible collaboration among people, automation and AI agents while maintaining accountability and a human-centered employee experience.
- Coach senior leaders, shape culture and lead transformation by building commitment, anticipating resistance, and tracking adoption and benefits.
Benefits
- Performance-based cash incentive.
- Depending on role level, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
- Comprehensive health, life and disability benefits for eligible US-based employees.
- 401(k) with company contribution and match.
- Vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
- A variety of other benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
