Job Description

About The Role

The Senior Manager, Global HR Business Partner (HRBP), Healthcare serves as the primary HR point of contact for Regional Healthcare leadership teams, ensuring strong alignment between business priorities and the People Strategy to drive sustainable growth. This role shapes organizational capability and talent outcomes across global markets through strategic HR leadership, cross-market transformation initiatives, and trusted advisory to senior business leaders.

What You Will Deliver

Partner with Global and Regional Healthcare leaders and Market HR Business Partners as a trusted advisor, translating business priorities into effective people strategies and actionable HR solutions.
Provide strategic and operational HR guidance across talent management, succession planning, leadership development, workforce planning, performance management, and employee engagement to strengthen organizational outcomes.
Use people insights and business understanding to anticipate risks, identify opportunities, and shape proactive HR solutions that drive business resilience and growth.
Lead the development, execution, monitoring, and continuous refinement of the Business Unit (BU) People Strategy and roadmap in collaboration with the Global Healthcare HR team.
Drive talent management, succession planning, and development initiatives to build a strong and diverse pipeline for critical and leadership roles across global markets.
Champion internal mobility, retention, and capability-building actions aligned to evolving business needs.
Lead organization effectiveness and change initiatives, including organization design, restructuring, business transformation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and process optimization, ensuring sustainable and measurable outcomes.
Support leaders in stakeholder engagement, change adoption, and implementation of new organizational models and ways of working.
Partner with business leaders to anticipate future workforce needs and shape informed strategic workforce planning decisions.
Drive the performance management cycle by coaching leaders, ensuring consistency and fairness, and building a culture of continuous feedback and development.
Develop and implement engagement, retention, and manager effectiveness plans, leveraging people analytics to improve employee experience and organizational performance.Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (CoE), People Services, and country HR teams to ensure consistent and effective implementation of HR policies, processes, and programs across markets.Coach, guide, and influence Market HR Business Partners on Healthcare priorities, ensuring alignment and effective execution of people initiatives across markets.
Build HR Business Partnering capability across the Healthcare business by sharing best practices, strengthening execution consistency, and fostering a collaborative HR community.

What You Bring

Degree in Human Resources, Business Management, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related discipline; relevant postgraduate qualifications or HR certifications would be an advantage.
Minimum ten years of progressive HR experience, with substantial experience in HR Business Partnering roles.
Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business priorities into people strategies and practical HR solutions.
Broad knowledge of HR disciplines, including talent management, succession planning, performance management, organization design, employee engagement, and workforce planning.
Strong project management and change management capability, with demonstrated experience leading cross-market or regional HR initiatives.
Proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, matrixed, and rapidly evolving work environment.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to advise and constructively challenge senior leaders.
Strong analytical capability, with the ability to use people data and insights to shape decisions and measure impact.
High proficiency in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Why Join DKSH

At DKSH, we help companies grow in Asia and enable people to perform at their best. You will be part of an organization that values accountability, collaboration, and long-term partnerships. We offer a dynamic environment where your contributions are visible and where you can build a meaningful career in Human Resources.

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About DKSH

DKSH’s purpose is to enrich people’s lives. For 160 years, we have been marketing, selling, and distributing high-quality products and brands for multinational and Fortune 500 companies. Through our Business Units Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Performance Materials, and Technology, we deliver sustainable growth for our partners. We contribute to improving the quality of life for our employees and people in the local communities in which we operate. Headquartered in Switzerland, DKSH is publicly listed and operates in 36 markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. We employ over 28,000 specialists and produced net sales of CHF 11.1 billion in 2024.

Why it's great to work with us

At DKSH, we are driven by a purpose that goes beyond the ordinary: enriching people's lives. Through the products and services we provide, DKSH positively impacts millions of lives everyday. Join our team where entrepreneurship meets flexible work arrangements. Take the leap and start a journey where you can grow and make a difference!

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Industry

Consulting & Advisory

Company Size

10,000+ employees

Headquarters

Zurich, CH

Year Founded

Unknown

Website

dksh.com

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