Job Description

• This is a great opportunity for a HR Business Partner to join our company, a company Fortune Magazine named as \xe2\x80\x9cOne of World\xe2\x80\x99s Most Admired Companies\xe2\x80\x9d
• Pharmaceutical environment, working across formulation operations, quality and engineering services
• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Opportunity based at Tuas manufacturing plant

As a Business Partner, you will work to enhance organisational performance, productivity and effectiveness through our people. Partnering with operations leaders, your objective will be to support the achievement of organisational goals and objectives in a team setting. Your role will have responsibility to support and deliver HR projects for our manufacturing operations and take responsibility for supporting change initiatives across your client groups. You will play a key role in building people manager and leader capability, drive employee engagement and deliver operational outcomes to meet client needs.

Primary Responsibilities

Change Management

• Proactively guide our operations leaders and employees through exercises and activities that better position the organization to implement and realise change;
• Help to align our leaders and employees, support engagement activities, minimize risks and maintain an open dialogue/solid partnership to influence and drive the change agenda.

People Operations Excellence

• Work closely with HR Shared Services and COEs to ensure policies and programs to support initiatives in line with HR and business priorities. Programs cover several or all of the following: recruiting, employee movements, employee relations, learning and development, human resources information systems, compensation and benefits, talent management and performance management)
• Provides day-to-day operations support and performance management guidance to line management (coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions)
• Support regulatory reporting and audit compliance.
• Champion continual process improvement.

HR Analytics and Projects

• Proactively use data to anticipate future manufacturing HR practices, trends and issues in an effort to make meaningful improvements.
• Conceptualize, design and participate in HR and people projects at divisional or market level working collaboratively with other HR and business colleagues

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Degree in any discipline preferably HR

Required Experience and Skills:

• 6-10 years of relevant work experience as a HR practitioner, desirably with a minimum of 3 years in business partnering, business transformation and analytics
• Experience in a multi-national, regulated manufacturing environment, desirably in the life sciences or pharma sector
• Understanding of HR systems and knowledge of local labor laws and regulation

What we look for \xe2\x80\xa6

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us\xe2\x80\x94and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another\xe2\x80\x99s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Current Employees apply

Current Contingent Workers apply

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