Business Partner (Advisory)

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

This position partner flexibly and mostly virtually with leaders across the globe, offering on-demand, adhoc support on Business Partnering topics that need more immediate or short-term guidance and value creation. With a good understanding of the business needs and the business context and an excellent ability to apply key People & Culture (HR) concepts, policies and processes.

This role provides coaching, guidance and support to leaders to help them diagnose and translate their business needs into immediate P&C approaches and ensures effective implementation of solutions in partnership with other chapters. This position partners closely with other P&C colleagues, participate in flexible squads and leverages technology to provide customer insights. This position is a trusted member of the Business Partner Chapter and closely integrated into the People Support Solution(HR Services) organization.

Business Acumen

• Provide immediate short-term strategic guidance to leaders on strategic P&C needs such as succession and talent management, performance management, goal setting, development planning, reward & compensation management and organizational set-up. Leverage the P&C community, specifically P&C Business Partners, Operational Advisors and subject-matter experts of other Chapters, to develop high quality solutions in a timely manner.

• Use knowledge of business and P&C insights, metrics, expertise, and decision principles to effectively deliver support on topics with a wide range of complexity.

• Participate in global / regional squads for the deployment of key P&C initiatives or new system launches

• Leverage a strong understanding of global P&C processes to consult, advice and train both business leaders as well as P&C leaders on the system and process related topics.

• Deliver first-class support, advice and coaching to leaders specifically when new processes or projects (e.g. global grading) are rolled out.

• Ensure alignment and execution of established policies, procedures and global P&C initiatives.

• Ensure compliance of all P&C practices within legislative requirements and established standards and guidelines by building a broad knowledge base on regional approaches and connecting with global P&C colleagues.

Leadership

• Be a trusted partner to leaders in all aspects of P&C generalist areas. Grasp a broad range of generalist P&C topics and be able to thoughtfully diagnose, evaluate and propose fit-for-purpose approaches including weighing risks and benefits of options.

• Be a trusted partner and lead others through complex generalist P&C topics by understanding the philosophies, approaches and systems-relevant configurations of topics such as succession and talent management (people discussions), access to relevant data, performance and compensation (performance management, benefits and other compensation elements), transformations (change management and redundancies), employee wellbeing (may include reintegration processes and time management), career paths, resolution of conflicts, employee representation topics and relocation, depending on the scope of the request.

• Ensure full ownership and leadership of incoming requests, prioritization and solution implementation to provide P&C consultation to leaders with a connected and caring approach.

• Partner with other Chapters, specifically PSS, People Relations and Networked and Dedicated BPs to create value for the organization. Onboard leaders where needed and connect them to other P&C colleagues when appropriate.

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Strategic P&C Insights & Innovation

• Gathers and analyzes data and P&C or business metrics to make critical decisions; shares insights with leaders and recommends innovative solutions based on the P&C decision principles that support the culture, strategic direction and resources.

• Utilize data sources to review key metrics such as turnover, talent review-related information, on- and offboarding needs to sense and address organizational needs proactively.

Who You Are

• Passionate and knowledgeable HR Business Partner professional with 6 years or more years of experience with the ability to work in a fast-paced global and virtual environment.

• Able to navigate the HR system, leverage different Chapters (HR areas) for business impact and participate in flexible squads to deliver on business and HR strategies.

• Customer-centricity through day-to-day interactions, anticipating needs and showing cultural awareness and business understanding.

• End-to-end ownership, engaging with leaders to ensure a successful outcome.

• Strong communication, coaching and influencing skills.

• Effectively diagnosing short-term HR needs, and offering fit for purpose solutions to address them.

• Have negotiation skills and the ability to cope with time pressure in demanding situations.

• Able to influence with courageous authenticity and build trust with individuals at all levels within the organization.

• Excellent situational assessment and objective evaluation skills, with an ability to comprehend and translate complex topics into manageable pieces.

• Able to leverage data, technology and insights to find root causes, troubleshoot and inform innovative and compliant solutions

• Proficient in English & Mandarin (Speak, Read & Write) is a must as this role will be supporting our counterpart in Taiwan. Traditional Mandarin will be an added advantage

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in Kuala Lumpur provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the APAC region. Today Roche employs altogether around 1100 employees in Malaysia.