Head of Healthcare HR GHO (all genders)

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

As Head of HR Global Healthcare Operations, you will be the global strategic HR leader for an organization of approximately 7,500 employees across 20 sites, serving more than 100 million patients every day. You will partner with senior leaders across operations, manufacturing, supply network, engineering, technology, and EHS to shape the people agenda for a complex, globally regulated GxP/GMP environment.

You will enable the GHO transformation under Focus30, guided by “Top at the sites, Lean at the core, Smart with suppliers,” and build the workforce, leadership, talent, and Smart Manufacturing capabilities required for future-ready operations, quality, compliance, and employee engagement.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the GHO people agenda, aligning business priorities, transformation goals, workforce plans, and people outcomes.
• Lead workforce adaptation for the GHO transformation, translating the end-to-end operating principle into clear people priorities and execution plans across geographies.
• Build leadership, talent, reskilling, and upskilling capabilities for Smart Manufacturing, digital operations, scarce technical skills, and regulated operational excellence.
• Act as a trusted executive advisor on organization effectiveness, change leadership, people risk, GxP/GMP readiness, quality, and compliance.
• Lead and develop a team of Global HR Business Partners and leverage people analytics to anticipate workforce needs, risks, and business impact.

Who You Are

• Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, with at least 10 years of progressive global HR leadership experience in regulated Pharma, Biotech, MedTech, or operations environments.
• Proven experience partnering with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Engineering, Supply Chain, or Operations leaders in complex global organizations.
• Strong track record in workforce transformation, organization design, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and large-scale change.
• Practical understanding of GMP/GxP expectations and their implications for workforce practices, training, leadership accountability, and inspection readiness.
• Strong executive influencing, consulting, communication, and people analytics skills; fluent English required, additional languages such as German are an advantage.

Location: Germany

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!