Head - Systems & Processes - Pharma

- This role will allow YOU to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

- Lead the GP&S team (30+ people) to create a strategic roadmap to deliver on HR's priorities supported by defining process execution, ensuring processes are fit for purpose (efficient and cost[1]effective), controlled, and creating positive employee experiences across processes and systems.

- Understand the strategies as set out by CoEs or Functional Heads within HR and translate those strategies into projects/programmes of work to deliver on people commitments.

- Guide the team to successful prioritization through examination of value/benefits, aiming to deliver value to early and often. Use an Agile approach in this prioritization and (in partnership with HR Tech) in delivery methodology. Define business cases for high-value items and create an environment in which these items can be delivered.

- Lead the HR Processes and Systems side of any people acquisition, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy processes to ways of working.

- Work with the GPOs to define KPIs across value streams, ensuring data and definitions are clear across the function. This will lead to a three year plan to get People Services to an industry recognised Best in Class status.

We are looking for professionals with these skills to achieve our goals. If you have them, we would like to speak to you.

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field (or equivalent), preferred CIPD qualified, or MBA - Experience leading multi-functional teams including managing senior stakeholders

- Programme Management experience - Strong change leadership experience - Senior stakeholder managements skills and experience engaging business customers

- Ability to stay 'close to the ground' (globally) to understand the 'real' end-user experience and perspective

- Track record of decision-making, celebrating successes and learning from failing fast; also includes a clear ability to delegate decision-making at the right level

- Sound understanding of process simplification and standardization and proven experience in global process roll-out including subject matter expertise in process improvement (e.g. Lean/Six Sigma)

- Excellent leadership and communication skills and the ability to work flexibly within a matrix team

- Possess solid experience of systems and processes, what they can and should do and not do within an organization

- Understanding of service delivery including strategies to shift left

- Broad knowledge across the end-to-end HR processes to support these components

- Ability to understand data privacy aspects of the business process - Ability to think strategically at an operating model level as well as at a detailed process specific