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Novartis

Vice President, Journey Head – Hire & Move

Novartis

. Lead the Hire & Move product grouping and its Product Owners .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeEast Hanover • United StatesLead💰 $236,600 - $439,400 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive leadership in People & Organization (HR) with a focus on talent acquisition, onboarding, and employee journey optimization. Proven ability to align product strategies with organizational goals while leveraging AI and automation for enhanced workforce experiences.

Highest-signal resume keywords
People & Organization LeadershipTalent Acquisition StrategyChange LeadershipPortfolio ManagementAI and Automation Understanding

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Hard Skills
Talent AttractionRecruiting and SelectionOnboardingInternal MobilityGlobal MobilityExternal Workforce ManagementJourney MappingData Privacy ComplianceKPI DevelopmentCost-Benefit Analysis
Soft Skills
Change LeadershipOrganizational InfluenceCommunication SkillsTeam-BuildingCoalition Building
Tools & Technologies
Automation ToolsAI SolutionsData ArchitectureIntegration PlatformsWorkforce Management Systems
Industry Keywords
Employee ExperienceTalent ManagementWorkforce StrategyProduct GovernanceRegulatory Compliance

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the Hire & Move product grouping and its Product Owners
  • Ensure coherence across Talent Attraction, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Internal Mobility, Global Mobility, Executive Scouting and External Workforce
  • Define and drive end-to-end employee and manager journey outcomes
  • Contribute actively to the People Experience Leadership Team
  • Own the multi-year journey ambition and align product owners and partners with company strategy and workforce priorities
  • Sponsor human-centered discovery, user listening and external benchmarking
  • Define measurable business outcomes for portfolio decisions
  • Partner with strategy and innovations teams on automation, AI and agentification strategy
  • Balance digital self-service, intelligent agents, automation and human interaction
  • Define technology roadmap priorities and value expectations with PTDI and DDIT
  • Identify and prioritize fragmentation, duplication, technical debt, integration gaps and data constraints
  • Translate functional strategy, policies and standards into portfolio choices
  • Lead portfolio strategy, composition, governance and lifecycle
  • Align roadmaps, arbitrate priorities and recommend investment, simplification, consolidation, replacement or retirement
  • Own KPI, value-realization, cost and investment frameworks
  • Make or recommend capacity and financial trade-offs
  • Ensure regulatory, policy, data privacy and process controls are tested and material failures addressed

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Extensive senior People & Organization (HR) leadership background across P&O, product, experience or technology-enabled transformation
  • Significant senior-level responsibility in a complex, global organization
  • Direct experience in more than one P&O domain is desirable, or equivalent breadth through enterprise collaboration and portfolio leadership
  • Experience leading or materially shaping talent acquisition and movement lifecycle areas such as talent attraction, recruiting and selection, onboarding, internal mobility, global mobility or external workforce is preferred
  • Experience connecting candidate, employee and manager journeys across organizational and geographic boundaries
  • Experience improving high-volume and time-sensitive journeys and delivering measurable outcomes
  • Experience operating across the Expertise Hub–P&O Workforce Strategy–product boundary
  • Experience translating journey and product outcomes into technology priorities and investment choices
  • Understanding of AI, automation, data and architecture sufficient to assess value and risk with technical experts
  • Experience leading a portfolio of products, programs, workstreams or teams
  • Experience setting priorities, assessing costs and benefits, making resource trade-offs and holding teams accountable to shared outcomes
  • Change leadership and organizational influence
  • Ability to build coalitions and communicate change narratives at executive level
  • People leadership and team-building experience
  • Ability to operate credibly with senior P&O, Expertise Hub, Country People Experience, P&O Business Partner, Finance, PTDI and DDIT leaders

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Performance-based cash incentive
  • Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards, depending on role level
  • Health benefits
  • Life benefits
  • Disability benefits
  • 401(k) with company contribution and match
  • Vacation
  • Personal days
  • Holidays
  • Other leaves
  • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities