Head of Human Resources Hong Kong

Head of Human Resources

Do you have expertise in Human Resources, and passion for pharmaceutical sales? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the lives of patients in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. We are on a journey to bring life-saving medicines to patients. Our role in contributing to decreasing mortality rates globally is clear – shaping the future by spotting a scientifically-led commercial opportunity and acting now to operationalise and scale it.

BUSINESS AREA – Hong Kong

Welcome to Hong Kong, one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca, providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s important to us that you bring your full self to work every day. To help you maintain your best self, here’s a sneak peek into some of the things this site provides for you

• Flexible Medical Benefit for you to better take care of well-being of yourself and your family

• Bright and vibrant work environment 

• Top up employer MPF contribution

We’re bringing transformative drugs to those that need them the most by combining continuous new launches with unique solutions across the whole patient journey. It’s how we are able to truly make a difference to the quality of lives and answer huge unmet patient needs.

United by our local sense of belonging, there’s never been a better time to join a progressing team. Countless opportunities to learn from the best global talent, this is a place for those who want to be challenged and empowered to do the things they never thought possible.

What you’ll do

The Head of Human Resources is a full-time position, leading and executing people strategy which aligns with business needs and company goals and strategies to support business development.

As Head of HR, you have full responsibility for architecting and implementing company strategy relating to Human Resources throughout HK and Macau, which is aligned with the organisation's vision and its current and long-term business objectives. You will be acting as a trusted partner, coach, mentor, and advisor to the Leadership team to enable high performance through people in line with business strategy and company purpose, mindset and core values.  You will be a member of leadership teams. This position report directly into the General Manager of Hong Kong & Macau, functionally to China HR VP.

Your job responsibilities will be, but not limited to:

• Develop and implement the people strategy for HK, that is aligned with the organisation's vision and its current and long-term business objectives

• Through end to end Organization and Talent Planning sessions, ensure the building of strong pipelines for business critical roles. 

• Together with functional leaders, identify, discuss talents which help support talents’ long term career goals and AZ business needs.

• Identify organizational pain points and drive actions to help improve employee engagement and retention as Great Place to Work.

• Play an active role of catalyst of change by enabling key business transformations supporting the business in communicating and enabling change within the business area from HR perspective

• Build capability within the HR function to deliver against objectives, mentoring and developing talent

• Working closely together with HR CoE to assure alignment with the overall strategy and service delivery

• Orchestrate and oversee continuous evolution of key people practices (org. design, job evaluation and reward, recruitment, succession planning, talent management, performance development, etc) to ensure that they stay relevant to current and future business needs and align with global policy.

• Partners with line management to model, shape and assess an organizational culture that supports the achievement of business objectives, including goal and role alignment, incentives and accountabilities.

• Demonstrates a balanced perspective when dealing with employee-related issues, striving for organizational justice.

• Ensure flawless execution of HR functions (i.e. staffing, compensation and benefits administration, employee relations, employment law, policy administration, HR data management, etc.)

• Consults and actively influences managers on resource allocation when implementing realignments, outsourcing and growth.

Essential for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Human Resources Management

• 10 years of HR experience in which at least 3 years strategic HR Business Partnering experience in MNC

• Strong commercial acumen

• Ability to translation business strategy into actionable people strategy and execute successfully.

• Technical HR knowledge associated with multiple discipline

• Strong project management skills and able to demonstrate experience of managing complex HR projects

• Professionalism in local labour ordinance and related law

• Self-starter with a drive to make things happen

• Strong emotional intelligence, listening, influencing and coaching skills

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft office

• Excellent presentation and communication skills of both oral and written in English and Cantonese

Desirable for the role

• People Management Experience

• Pharmaceutical experience

• Experience of large/global matrix organisations

• Proficiency in Mandarin

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

• We welcome your application, no later than 31 December, 2023

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.