People Excellence Partner

ABOUT THE JOB

The People Excellence Partner role is a part of the People & Culture team and reports directly to the People & Culture Director Eurasia. In this role you will work with the (Strategic) People Business Partners, People Excellence, COE Partners and People Services to support the employees of Turkey & Levant region. You will focus on delivering People and Culture excellence for managers and employees across the full scope of our operations – commercial head office, manufacturing site and field-based customer-facing roles by facilitating the cycles like Talent, Performance and Merit cycles, lead P&C projects like wellbeing, onboarding etc., employee-manager relations, EBI investigations and work on continuous improvement to deliver the best in class employee experience.

KEY RESULTS/ACCOUNTABILITIES
Strategy and Policy
Implement changes locally according to People Business Partner and Centre of Expertise guidelines

Talent Acquisition & Talent Management

• Facilitate Talent Review Meetings with Leaders according to Centre of Expertise guidance and in collaboration with the (Strategic) People Business Partner
• Participate in recruitment selection panels for assigned roles
• Manage new hires arrival and onboarding in partnership with People Services
• Manage job requisitions for middle managers and below

Performance Management

• Guide employees & managers through the performance process, including low performance management
• Facilitate year-end calibration with Leaders according to Centre of Expertise guidance
• Support with trainings to employees and managers when needed

Employee Relations

• Investigate allegations covered by the Disciplinary and Corrective actions policy
• Manage and coordinate employee separation cases (with support from legal and (strategic) People Business Partner when appropriate)
• Guide managers and employees with manager-employee relations

Organisation Changes

• Support People-related local projects
• Serve as a point of contact for Workday transactions, notifications and approvals
• Organization Management – Support large organization changes with People Business Partners (RIFs & expansions). Offer org. system support for line management. Conduct Workday org audits and clean-up efforts

Others / Projects

• Take the lead on several P&C topics as a project like Wellbeing, DE&I, Onboarding, Talent Acquisition & Management etc.
• Promote continuous improvement through feedback loops and process improvement ideas and implementation with People Excellence COE Partners & People Services
• Serve as the Tier 2 advisor for escalated support requests
• Coordinate and manage training delivery and tracking

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 4 years of HR experience in a multi-national organisation in either commercial or manufacturing environments
• Strong project management skills
• Courage to challenge leaders
• Innovative mindset
• Strong facilitation, presentation and communication skills with an ability to influence at all levels
• Strong coaching, consulting and team-building skills and observational techniques
• Growth mindset, open for feedback and learning
• Flexible and agile to manage multiple topics concurrently
• Customer service mindset
• HR systems experience (Workday will be an advantage) and MS Excel expertise

Terms of Employment

• This full-time position does not have people management responsibility.
• There might be some travel required for this position.

What Sanofi Can Offer You
Benefits to enhance your life journey
Development opportunities to own your future
An open and inclusive environment where you can be yourself
Social activities and wellbeing programs to support your life

We chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

We are Sanofi, an innovative global healthcare company. We chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to make the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our commitments. We are one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Turkey, serving public health for with more than 1,600 employees. Adding value to local economy and development in Turkey, we offer a broad range of products including innovative therapeutic solutions, biotechnological pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products. Our factory in Lüleburgaz is one of the leading pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Turkey. It is also among the top three Sanofi production sites worldwide in terms of its manufacturing capacity. Our manufacturing site, produces high-quality pharmaceuticals in many different forms in accordance with global health standards, and develops generic medicine at its on-site R&D Center.

Pursue progress.
Discover extraordinary.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles.
So let’s be those people.
Let’s explore more, and share a purpose, as well as our skills. Let’s reinvent healthcare, chase change, and embrace new ideas. Let’s take bigger risks and find better solutions for the people we help.
Let’s pursue progress.
And let’s discover extraordinary, together.