WorkDay Specialist

Job Description Summary

As a stand-alone company Sandoz is establishing its own Human Capital Management (HCM) Program. Workday will be our key tool to cover the following modules: Core HCM, Talent and Performance, Compensation, People Analytics, Time and Absence, Recruiting and Onboarding.
To exit the Transitional Service Agreement (TSA) with Novartis company, we have chosen a “lift and shift” strategy to copy the existing Workday functionality.
For that an HCM Program team with members from Human Resources (HR) and Technology is now forming. We are hiring a Workday Talent Acquisition (TA) Lead Specialist to work closely with HCM TA CoE Lead to contribute to our implementation plan. If you have experience in Workday configuration, implementation, and support, and are ready to take on new challenges, we want to hear from you!

Job Description

This position has a fixed-term contract until the end of 2025, so it is a great opportunity for those looking for project work.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Partnership with the Technology team and HR community (TA Centre of Excellence, Country HR Partners, HR Operations and HR HCM team):

  • Understanding of the business needs, gathering Legal, Fiscal, and Regulatory (LFR) and technical requirements, functionalities and their configuration while considering the change impacts and eliminating risks and inconsistencies.

  • Suggesting and designing solutions, addressing the change requests and support requirements from the HR community, in accordance with the “lift and shift” approach.

  • Leading change management activities to ensure great user experience.

• Effective cooperation with internal customers (HR IT, employees, managers)

  • Training, knowledge transfer and guides/tutorials preparation and execution.

  • Promotion of employee/managers self-service and use of reports/dashboards.

  • Ensuring smooth integration between Workday and downstream systems.

• Support of strong data integrity, reporting and security functionalities:

  • High awareness of current setup, constant analysis and development of advanced security and compliance.

  • Ensuring data and modules integrity, solving issues.

  • Design and configuration of reports/dashboards based on business needs of TA.

  • Compliance with internal and statutory policies and legislations.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Workday expertise and experience in Recruiting and Onboarding is a must.

• Analytical skills and strong attention to detail, while considering consequences and impacts.

• Problem solving, ability to prioritize workload and provide timely follow-up and resolution.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects.

• English (Professional level spoken and written).

You will receive:
• Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary
• Risk Life Insurance
• 5-week holiday per year (1 week above the Labor Law requirement)
• Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus CZ in the amount of 12,000 CZK per year
• Meal vouchers in amount of 116 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company)

• Public Transport Allowance
• Multisport Card
• Premium Health Care Program

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit 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, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged! 

The future is ours to shape!

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.

Join our Sandoz Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Sandoz and our career opportunities, join the Network here: Sandoz Talentpool (novartis.com)

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