Job Description Summary
As Global Talent Management Director & Learning Director, you will lead the design and delivery of global talent practices that strengthen performance, accelerate development, and build future-ready organisational capability. You will support in shaping and continuously improving the enterprise performance management framework, and scalable approaches to development planning and employee growth, as well as lead strategic talent initiatives that align with business priorities. Working in close partnership with senior leaders, P&O Business Partners, Technology, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will translate organisational needs into simple, effective, data-informed talent solutions that drive adoption, strengthen leadership decisions, and enable long-term business performance.Job Description
As Global Talent Management Director & Learning Director, you will lead the design and delivery of global talent practices that strengthen performance, accelerate development, and build future-ready organisational capability. You will support in shaping and continuously improving the enterprise performance management framework, and scalable approaches to development planning and employee growth, as well as lead strategic talent initiatives that align with business priorities. Working in close partnership with senior leaders, P&O Business Partners, Technology, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will translate organisational needs into simple, effective, data-informed talent solutions that drive adoption, strengthen leadership decisions, and enable long-term business performance.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Performance Management: Support global performance management framework and end-to-end cycle, ensuring simple, consistent practices aligned to business priorities. Enable adoption through clear guidance, manager enablement, communications, and continuous improvement of the employee and manager experience.
Talent Management Initiatives: Lead and deliver global talent projects across performance, talent, development, and future capability priorities. Translate talent needs into scalable solutions with clear scope, governance, milestones, and success measures.
Development Planning & Employee Growth: Define and embed a practical approach to development planning, integrated with performance, talent, and career conversations. Equip employees and managers with simple frameworks, tools, and communications that support continuous growth and future readiness.
Strategic Partnership & Insights: Partner with senior leaders and P&O Business Partners to align talent priorities with business strategy and organisational capability needs. Provide data-informed insights and recommendations to support leadership decisions on performance, talent, and development.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
Ideal Background
· Advanced degree in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, Business, or related field
· Extensive experience in Talent Management, Performance Management, or Organizational Development in a global environment
· Proven track record of leading enterprise-wide initiatives and managing complex projects at scale
· Strong experience working with senior leadership and influencing strategic decisions
· Solid understanding of performance management systems and HR technology, for example Workday
· Strategic thinking combined with strong execution and project delivery focus
· Strong project and programme management capability in complex, global environments
· Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, Data-driven mindset with strong analytical capability & Ability to lead change and drive behavioural adoption. Strong focus on simplicity, clarity, and impact
Why Sandoz?
Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Skills Desired
Business Partnering, Change Management, Communication Skills, Human Resources (HR), Operational Excellence, Organizational Development (OD), Performance Management, Relationship Building, Resilience, Talent Management, Waterfall Project ManagementSkills Required
- Advanced degree in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, Business, or related field
- Extensive experience in Talent Management, Performance Management, or Organizational Development in a global environment
- Proven track record of leading enterprise-wide initiatives and managing complex projects at scale
- Strong experience working with senior leadership and influencing strategic decisions
- Solid understanding of performance management systems and HR technology (for example, Workday)
- Strategic thinking combined with strong execution and project delivery focus
- Strong project and programme management capability in complex, global environments
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Data-driven mindset with strong analytical capability
- Ability to lead change and drive behavioural adoption
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
Sandoz Insights
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
