Talent Management

• Develop and execute the China talent strategy and active practice of International
  Talent Principles.
• Establish robust talent review and succession planning processes for critical roles, building a strong leadership and talent pipeline for China.
• Build high-potential pools and implement development interventions to accelerate their growth.
• Partner with TM COE for the "Growth for All" initiative, aiming to drive associates' personal growth through strong development behaviors and impactful actions.
• Partner with Talent Scouting to prioritize pipeline gaps with them, build a robust external talent pipeline for critical roles, proactively addressing and closing future talent gaps.
• Lead Performance management and job progression, continuous rhythm and support our people to be the best with the greatest impact

Organizational Development

• Act as the coach and expert to orchestrate change management, facilitating success through collaboration with the international Organizational Development team.
• Support China workforce planning efforts in a simple, yet effective way, leveraging external trends and insights, and internal analytics to ensure workforce readiness for future demands.
• Create integrated workforce strategies to address immediate and long-term talent needs and contingent workforce planning.
• Enable increased business performance by delivering data driven Organizational health checks, org design, team effectiveness that will deliver the future of work.

Leadership Development and Coaching

• Provide guidance and support to value teams to elevate their effectiveness as individual leaders and as a collective team, especially in networked teams.
• Champion leadership development programs that support the growth of leaders and high-potential talent in partnership with Learning team and the central LD team.
• Leverage assessment tools and frameworks like My Potential, Hogan or 360 feedback to identify and accelerate the development of next-generation leaders.

Ideal Background:

Education: Degree in business administration, communications, human resources, marketing

Languages: Chinese and Fluent English

Experience/Professional requirements:

·       10+ years of HR experience

·       CoE experience, in particular Talent Management and Organization Development

·       Track-record in an organization with diverse organizational and social cultures

·       Proven stakeholder management and collaboration track record

·       Experience in and/or collaboration with all HR Centers of Expertise

·       Transformation and change management experience

·       Leading projects, assessing needs of internal clients, and implementing innovative solutions

·       Working as a strategic partner with the Business Leadership as well as HR leaders

·       Identifying talent needs as well as developing solid succession plans

·       Applying data and analytics in talent management

·       Business partner experience in an organization of comparable complexity advantageous

·       Experience in the pharmaceutical industry / life science advantageous

Personal attributes

·         Strong collaboration and influencing skills

·         Customer-oriented mindset

·         Strategic and analytical thinking

·         Creativity and problem-solving attitude

·         Cross-cultural sensitivity

·         Balances competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution

·         Pragmatism grounded in a strong business-orientation

·         High degree of intellectual curiosity and rigor