Key Responsibilities:

• Closely monitor how we compare to the market and work with local business and P&O leaders to define benefit actions; contribute to benchmarking them against peer groups.

• Monitor how associates feel about benefit plans and define what we can do to align our benefits spending in the most impactful way for associates.  Work with local business and P&O leaders to define benefit actions. Work on increasing the visibility and understanding of Novartis benefits to ensure associates can recognize the value of their benefits and how to use them most effectively.

• Define or review the local benefits strategy basis the positioning of the benefits plans in the market and local P&O strategy.

• Manage the design of local benefit plans based on employee requirements, aligned with local stakeholders and in close cooperation with local P&O PP.

• Manage the renewal of local benefit plans in cooperation with procurement to leverage Novartis’ purchasing power. Find ways to work with vendors to assess the utilization of benefits to assess the impact of our benefits spend.

• Manage the Benefits budgets for the area of responsibility.

• Define benefit communication strategy and create content/ materials with local P&O and external consultant/broker support.

• Contribute to the global benefits strategy by participating in the benefits leadership roundtable.

• Handle individual benefit cases (localizations, international transfers, exceptional cases, etc.) in cooperation with the Rewards BP and the local P&O PPs.

• Actively participate in benefit-related projects like M&A projects, global benefit implementation, etc. Manage the administration processes in the responsible cluster countries and look for process synergies to improve and maintain an efficient service delivery model.

Key Requirements:

• University degree, preferable in economics, mathematics or legal (only if figure minded)           

• Fluent in English both written & spoken

• French, Spanish, German, Czech, Portuguese, etc. are desirable.

• Minimum 7 years in the field of international employee benefits, pensions or life (re-) insurance

• Strong background in design, development & delivery of benefit programs for large MNCs

• Advance understanding of logical, rules-based software systems

• People management experience

You’ll receive:

Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 17,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Car Allowance; MultiSport Card, Employee Share Purchase Plan. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: http://www.novartis.cz/

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in any order to receive more detailed information about essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.