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P&O Head Hungary

Sandoz


Job Location:

Budapest - Hungary

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 8 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description Summary

At Sandoz our Purpose is pioneering access for patients

Job Description

The P&O Head promotes the development of the companys 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 the Country Leadership Team and wider organization.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Partner with Country Head and Leadership Team to translate business strategy into actionable people plans and support business transformation

  • Provide pragmatic hands-on HR support balancing strategic advisory with operational delivery and contributing to business decisions with people insights

  • Lead and coordinate local implementation of global P&O initiatives and enterprise projects

  • Advise and coach leaders on team effectiveness organizational design performance change management and navigating complexity and transformation

  • Build trusted relationships with senior leaders fostering accountability self-awareness and alignment to company values

  • Act as first point of contact for managers across the employee lifecycle and manage employee relations matters with a solutions-oriented approach

  • Drive and execute local HR processes ensuring consistency compliance and efficiency while partnering with CoEs

  • Lead the talent agenda including succession planning leadership pipeline development retention engagement and capability building

  • Support recruitment employer branding and diversity equity and inclusion initiatives

  • Enable collaboration and mindset transformation by removing barriers encouraging continuous learning and fostering agile cross-organizational teamwork

What youll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

  • University degree (i.e. Human Resources Management Psychology)

  • Fluent in Hungarian and English is a must

  • Strong working knowledge of Hungarian labour law and Works councils / employee representation

  • 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.

  • Agility to transition between business partnering at leadership level and executing on operational P&O process

Compensation Structure & Criteria:

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 reviews consider performance outcomes market alignment and business needs.

  • Job location:BudapestHungary

  • Starting monthly pay range:1377691- HUF Gross

  • Complimentary compensation:500.000 HUF gross cafeteria per year

  • Variable compensation:Short term incentive

  • Additional benefits include:Life & Health Insurance All You Can Move Sportpass contribution company car mobile phone

  • Pay frequency:Monthly

  • Expected weekly working hours:40 hours

  • Contract type:full time

Why Sandoz

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the worlds 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 humanrightof good health.

With investments in new development capabilities production sites new acquisitions and partnerships wehave the opportunity toshape 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.

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Skills Desired

Business Acumen Coaching Compliance & Risk Management Connecting The Dots Influencing Leadership Development Managing Change Matrix Collaboration Organization Design Organization Health Stakeholder Management Strategic Workforce Planning Talent Pipelining Vision & Purpose (Strategy To Story)

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