People and Organization Head

Job Description Summary

The P&O Head Greece is responsible for championing the People & Organization agenda by advising, coaching and influencing leaders to support the implementation of business strategy and plans across Greece and Cyprus (Distribution Market)
The P&O Head ensures that local P&O activities are carried out in accordance with global standards and governance, local legislation, good practices and enable achievement of business objectives.
The P&O Head promotes the development of the company's cultural and social ecosystem and brand. As a business advisor and coach, the P&O Head applies P&O consulting skills with data driven and external market insights to deliver an organizational aligned workforce strategy with talent interventions that span diversity and inclusion; talent management; organization design and effectiveness; culture; transformation and change; and employee experience.
The role is focused on driving business outcomes through hands-on execution, strong leadership partnership, and people-centric solutions. This role blends operational excellence with strategic insight, acting as a trusted advisor, coach, and enabler to business leaders across Greece and the Cyprus Distribution Market

Job Description

Major accountabilities: 

• Partner closely with the Country Head and Leadership Team to translate business strategy into actionable people plans.

• Provide pragmatic, hands-on HR support, ensuring effective execution of people initiatives

• Provide P&O partnership and support to assigned distribution market, ensuring appropriate people solutions, compliance, governance and alignment with Sandoz standards while considering local market realities.

• Balance strategic advisory with operational delivery, maintaining a strong connection to day-to-day business realities.

• Actively contribute to business decisions using people insights, data, and workforce trends

• Lead and coordinate local implementation of global, company-wide Sandoz P&O initiatives and enterprise projects.

• Advise business leaders and functional teams on strategic and operational execution, including team effectiveness, change management, organizational design, performance management, talent, retention and engagement.

• Partner with Country Head and Country Leadership Team in executing business transformation initiatives ensuring business continuity.

KPIs

• Champion our Culture Transformation with measurable interventions evidenced in Our Voice scores.
• Demonstrate ability to leverage data and analytics for business insights to inform business decisions evidenced through positive client feedback.
• Demonstrate effective execution of projects and initiatives through client feedback and measurable project outcomes.
• Demonstrate enterprise leadership that inspires collaboration and generates new solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Develop an impactful P&O plan aligned to business priorities; developed based on deep business acumen and understanding of key P&O drivers.
• Drive the talent agenda in partnership with the business, establishing quality succession planning for critical positions and business value roles, development plans of key talent and talent strategy to build the leadership pipeline.

Experience

• Demonstrated ability in ambiguous/ challenging environment.
• Proactive approach to initiate and introduce best in class P&O practices to ensure support to client group.
• Proven project management experience.
• Proven track record of working directly with senior leaders / country leadership teams.
• Demonstrated ability to personally handle complex HR cases, not just escalate.
• Exposure to multinational / matrix organizations (strongly preferred).
• Ability to challenge constructively and navigate sensitive people topics with diplomacy.
• Strong working knowledge of Greek labor law and employee relations practices.

Required: English is mandatory, while Greek language skills are highly desirable.

Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary

• Job location: Athens, Greece
• Starting pay range: 55,400 – 79,200 – 103,000 EUR ABS
• Complimentary compensation:
• Variable compensation: 20% performance based / discretionary bonus, car allowance / company car according with the Car Policy in place, Medical Insurance (Ethniki); Pension Plan (NN) and other benefits.
• Additional benefits include: flex-hybrid working 3 days per week in the office.
• Pay frequency: Monthly
• Contract type: Full-time

Skills Desired

Business Acumen, Client Counseling, Coaching, Compliance & Risk Management, Connecting The Dots, Data-Driven Decision Making, Influencing, Leadership Development, Managing Change, Matrix Collaboration, Organization Design, Organization Health, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Workforce Planning, Talent Development, Talent Pipelining, Vision & Purpose (Strategy To Story), Waterfall Project Management