The Role
This is a key strategic role to lead the Uniphar Pharma HR team across Europe. Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, you will be part of the Uniphar Pharma Senior Leadership Team and the Uniphar HR Leadership Team, leading a team of HR managers, business partners, recruiters, and Talent specialists. This is a commercial business and therefore you will be required to both represent the HR and people/talent agenda at the leadership table AND contribute to the strategic direction of the business, in your leadership role. As Uniphar is a highly acquisitive business, you will play a key role in bringing together colleagues from the recent acquisitions, as well as supporting future M&A activity.
Responsibilities:
This is a vital leadership role that will drive results, accelerate growth, and increase the overall efficiency of the organization.
1. As a core member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will drive the commercial success of the business by crafting the future vision and strategy to ensure continued growth and success.
2. Collaboration with other HR Directors and senior HR Leaders to ensure a collective vision on core and common HR activities, including Recruitment, Payroll, Learning, Systems and other shared HR services across the group.
3. Work with leaders to define priorities that align with the experience we want to create for our people and the strategic direction of the division.
4. Become embedded in the business and an integral part of the divisional leadership team.
5. Help to unite the division and its people, seeking ways to integrate the recently acquired businesses and support future M&A activity, with a particular eye on culture and leadership.
6. Help the division and broader enterprise identify and develop talent and ensure we create as many career defining experiences for all our people. This includes a focus on building a robust succession plan for key roles across the business and ensuring we develop the next generation of leaders.
7. Drive Equality, Diversity and Inclusion priorities, championing interventions that will make an impact, raising awareness, encouraging open and honest conversations, and allowing our people to be their true selves at work.
8. Work with leaders to identify, build relationships with, and attract future talent.
9. Partner with the divisional MD to ensure HR projects are planned and budgeted for.
10. As an integral member of HR team, working to support the broader HR vision and strategy. As part of this, lead initiatives that ignite your passion for people and HR.
11. As a leader in HR, invest in the growth and development of your team, peers and function. Give your time generously so that others may learn from you.
12. Be a change agent and lead transformational change, both for the division and broader enterprise.
13. Build our insight in how our people feel and what’s important to them, and work to create a seamless employee experience, along with leaders, HR and other support functions.
Candidate Requirements:
14. Deep understanding of HR across multiple jurisdictions, including operationally across European countries.
15. Strong team player, able to continuously build excellent working relationships with peers and always look for the best approach collectively.
16. No ego – always strive to do what is right for the team and the wider business
17. Resilient to continuous change and conflicting priorities – able to decipher what’s really a priority and strive to achieve this.
18. Ambitious to grow and achieve amazing things within your career in Uniphar.
19. Experience with global matrix organizations with fast growth expectations.
20. Strong business acumen and focus on business outcomes, with the ability to quickly build trust and credibility.
21. Deep experience of entrepreneurial mindset and working with same to drive better performance, with the ability to make quick, sound decisions.
22. Process-oriented mindset and capabilities.
23. An ability to work in an agile way. Comfortable with ambiguity. Not afraid to forge a path.
24. Digital acumen, good knowledge of systems and processes that improve efficiency and drive enhanced decision-making.
25. Excellent relationship-building and communication, with the ability to move between listening to, guiding and coaching others at all levels.
26. Common sense – always spots opportunities to simplify and improve processes to drive better results in a no nonsense way.
27. People-focused, strong leadership skills, and a champion of culture, engagement and communication.
Uniphar Background
Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.
Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma
Uniphar Pharma
Pharma is a global division operating across US, Europe, APAC and MENA, bringing a range of pharma services to manufacturers across the product life cycle. We leverage this platform to provide unlicensed medicines, or medicines that are otherwise difficult to source. In addition, we commercialise launch and established brands to HCPs on behalf of pharmaceutical clients across the globe. The core to this division is providing equitable access to medicines globally.
Culture at Uniphar
From our leadership team and across all of our divisions, Uniphar lives and breathes four key culture pillars:
1.We have a People First approach, we do the right thing and take a stand for our people.
2.We foster a strong Entrepreneurial Spirit where Adaptability, Commitment & Resilience is embodied in our way of working.
3.We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people.
4. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.
How we’d like to work together
As we are a global team, there is flexibility to be based in one of Uniphar’s offices or work from home. There may be a need for face to face meetings in other locations, as needed. There may also some flexibility required in order to interact with colleagues or clients in their time zones (i.e. it’s not a ‘9 to 5’ type of job). In return, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it through our Hybrid Working philosophy.