P&O Business Partner, KSA



Riyadh

07/05/2025

P&O Business Partner, KSA

Job Description Summary

-P&O Business Partner serves as the primary trusted partner to the organization, executing People and Organization strategies, helping to shape our culture, support our business strategies and finding and developing the talent necessary to make an impact on Sandoz Saudi organization and patients in the region.


 

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

  • Serve as P&O Business Partner to Sandoz Saudi teams, responsible for effectiveness of people processes in respective business or function:
  • Strategic workforce and capability building: define, together with business leaders, strategic resource needs and composition / evolution of workforce. Ensure business is proactively deploying capabilities required for achievement of business objectives. 
  • Succession Planning and Talent Development: ensure robust succession planning process in the unit to embed talent development culture. Assess, recommend, or identify programs for developing associates. Provide leadership counselling for careers, where appropriate. 
  • Organizational Effectiveness: collaborate with leadership team on organizational health and organizational change. Advise on actions to continuously develop the organizational design and culture.
    Performance and Recognition culture: help improve performance & recognition culture, ensuring retention of high performers, and performance improvement plans for poor performers. Educate and facilitate the implementation of a performance culture (including the performance management cycle).
  • P&O Processes, Policies, Practices: input to and implement competitive P&O practices. Manage these processes across geographic boundaries to facilitate the line's use of them. Act as an employee counsellor in critical cases.
  • P&O Analytics and Reporting: Make use of relevant People data and metrics to support business decisions or track progress on People practices.
  • Proactively support, coach and develop strategies for business leaders on managing the complex changes and transformations.
  • Creating an inclusive environment for the team (including leadership team of the unit / function) to perform, build trust, social bonds, bring best selves and a safe space to speak up.

Key performance indicators:

  • Feedback from internal partners and client groups -People KPI’s – diversity, retention, on-boarding, etc.

What you will bring to the role:

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in People & Organization Function
  • Significant breadth of understanding of functional P&O roles and responsibilities and impact on the business.
  • Experience working in a global matrix cross cultural environment.
  • Excellent communications, influencing and leadership skills
  • Bachelor’s Degree Required.

Languages :

  • English & Arabic


 

Skills Desired

Knowledge Of All Relevant Policies And Practices, Knowledge Of The Hr Strategy, Organization Change, P&O Data Analytics, Performance Management