Emma McGregor CIPD

P&O Lead | HR Business Partner | Creating positive change for patients | Driving organisational growth l AI adoption & behavioural change

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

HR Business Partner and people leader with international experience spanning Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences, Professional Services, Governmental and Financial Services sectors. Senior stakeholder management including change management and project management within complex networked environments.

Experience

  • Novartis (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • People Partner Lead for Global Functions, International & Operations
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      Leading a team of People Partners across 5 sites and the delivery of people and organisation support to over 5000 employees and leaders. Focus on change management as we embed AI into ways of working, both within P&O and broadly across the business.

    • People Partner Team Lead
      May 2021 - May 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Leading a team of People Partners at global headquarters in Basel. This includes: - day to day HR support for those moments that matter - continuous improvement and operational excellence to optimise employee/customer experience - successful transition and implementation of cross-unit global initiatives including effective change management - successful customer and stakeholder management and collaboration across regions/globally to ensure consistency of P&O support - supporting and managing a team to realise their full potential - organisational design of people partnering in Switzerland

    • People Partner & Integration Lead
      Jul 2020 - May 2021 · 11 mos

      Responsible for the design, deployment and day to day operations of people experience. This includes employee life-cycle management, employee relations, workforce planning and execution, organisational management, restructuring implementation, coaching in performance management. In addition lead for the integration of the P&O operating model in Switzerland.

  • Talent Acquisition Country Lead, on-site at Novartis at AMS
    Jan 2013 - Jun 2018 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    AMS is a leading provider of talent acquisition and management services. Novartis is a global Healthcare company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland that provides solutions to address the evolving needs of patients worldwide. As Talent Acquisition & Staffing Lead of the AMS recruitment team, I am responsible for the following: • Providing strategic and operational business partnering to HR and hiring community across Novartis global to proactively establish strong relationships and understand business needs, forecasts, requirements and challenges on Talent Acquisition topics • Listening to client needs in order to identify, recommend and then implement continuous improvement plans • Partner with Talent Management to identify succession gaps and then plan to provide solutions from an external talent perspective • Talent Attraction planning for all internal and external recruitment. Identification of best advertising channels including social media, online advertising, agency / search firm selection • For niche hiring areas or where there is limited internal succession, influencing and providing proactive and innovative solutions for hiring needs • Leadership and development of 12 Recruiters (on-site and remote), conducting ongoing coaching and training, creating induction training plans • Resource allocation for “business as usual” and project hiring to ensure successful delivery to Novartis including close collaboration with sourcing and admin teams based in the Global Service Centres • Creation, tracking and reporting of KPIs in form of scorecard (including related improvement actions) delivered to Global HR Head community on monthly / quarterly / annual basis • Forecasting and management of monthly and financial targets in line with annual budget

  • SThree (13 yrs 2 mos)
    • Middle East Business Manager at Huxley Associates, Dubai UAE
      Sep 2008 - Aug 2012 · 4 yrs

      Worked as a Senior Manager for Huxley Associates in the Middle East after a total of 12 years experience within SThree Plc, a FTSE 250 Specialist Search & Selection Agency. Huxley Associates in the Middle East has specialist divisions in Banking & Financial Services, Accountancy, Legal & HR along with IT & Energy. We are the premier specialist recruitment agency based in Dubai, and servicing the entire MENA region. Specialities include Senior Appointments, Account Management, RPOs, Retained & Contingency Mandates, Market Mapping, Search & Selection, Interview Profiling, Negotiation, Contract Law, Sales Management, Performance Management, KPI Metrics, Balance Scorecard.

    • Head of Client Services at Tactical Resource Ltd
      Jun 2005 - Aug 2008 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Head of Business Development, Delivery and Operations teams that focus on winning new business as well delivering to existing and new clients. Tactical is a managed service provider offering permanent/contract staffing solutions across IT, Telecomms, Finance, HR and Engineering.

    • Lead Account Manager
      Sep 2004 - Jun 2005 · 10 mos