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Job Function:
Human Resources
Job Sub Function:
HR Business Partners
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Milano, Italy
Job Description:
Human Resources Manager Italy
Location: Milano, Italy
Contract: Full Time, Hybrid
About the role:
You will act as the senior HR Business Partner for Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Italy, partnering with the Managing Director and the Italian Leadership Team to translate business priorities into a focused people and organisation agenda. You will provide strategic counsel while ensuring disciplined execution across talent, organisation, culture, performance, and change.
This is a hands-on leadership role in a complex, highly regulated market. The scope includes organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, leadership capability, employee and labour relations, performance management, and the use of data, digital tools, and AI to improve decisions and HR delivery. You will lead the local HR agenda in close partnership with EMEA HR, Centres of Excellence, Global Services, and the broader One HR Italy community.
Kay Resposibilites:
Partner with the business
- Build trusted relationships with Head of HR, Managing Director, Italian Leadership Team, and people leaders, providing strategic advice, coaching, and constructive challenge.
- Translate the Italy business strategy, portfolio priorities, and evolving go-to-market needs into clear people, organisation, and capability plans.
- Use workforce data, business insights, digital tools, and AI-enabled analysis to identify risks, inform decisions, and measure impact
Deliver talent and capability priorities
- Lead talent reviews, succession planning, workforce planning, and differentiated development actions for critical roles and future capabilities.
- Strengthen internal and external talent pipelines, supporting mobility, talent import and export, and readiness for key leadership positions
- Build people-leader capability in coaching, feedback, performance management, inclusion, digital fluency, and AI-enabled ways of working.
Lead organisational effectiveness and performance
- Lead organisational reviews, restructuring, role design, spans and layers, and workforce transitions in line with business needs and Italian requirements.
- Drive a culture of accountability and sustained performance, equipping leaders to address performance and role-fit issues consistently and fairly.
- Guide change and transformation programmes from design through implementation, balancing competitiveness, employee experience, compliance, and business continuity.
Shape culture, engagement, and leadership
- Partner with leaders to build an inclusive, high-performing culture grounded in the Credo, direct conversations, ownership, and collaboration.
- Use employee listening, engagement insights, and AI-supported analysis to define targeted actions and monitor progress.
- Create forums and interventions that strengthen the people-leader community, leadership effectiveness, and connection across the Italian organisation.
Lead employee relations and work across OneHR
- Provide leadership on employee and labour relations, including works council and trade-union engagement, disciplinary matters, workforce changes, and sensitive employee cases.
- Ensure HR decisions and processes comply with Italian labour law, collective agreements, corporate policies, and ethical standards, working closely with Legal and Employee Relations.
- Partner with EMEA HR, Centres of Excellence, Global Services, and OneHR Italy to deliver integrated solutions, simplify the employee experience, and improve HR processes through digitisation and intelligent automation.
Kay Experience Requirements:
- 8+ years experience as HR Business Partner or HR leadership experience in a complex, matrixed, and regulated organisation; pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life-sciences experience with local Italian market knowledge specifics.
- Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders and translate strategy into practical talent, organisation, culture, and workforce actions.
- Strong knowledge of Italian employment legislation, employee and labour relations, collective bargaining, and the management of organisational change.
- Proficient English and Italian language capabilites.
- Demonstrated experience leading talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, performance management, and transformation initiatives end-to-end.
- Commercial and financial acumen, with the confidence to use workforce analytics and insights to challenge and support business decisions.
- Experience leveraging digital tools and AI, for example analytics, automation, or decision support, to improve HR outcomes and employee experience.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and communication skills, including in sensitive or high-impact situations
- A pragmatic, hands-on approach with strong execution discipline and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluency in Italian and English.
What sets you apart
- You balance strategic thinking with strong execution.
- You are comfortable challenging and supporting leaders in equal measure.
- You take ownership and follow through to delivery.
- You work collaboratively and build effective relationships across teams.
- You are curious about AI and technology, and actively apply it to improve HR impact and efficiency.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Change Management, Coaching, Consulting, Employee Engagement, Employee Relations, Employee Retention, HR Business Partnership, HR Strategic Management, Human Resources Consulting, Human Resources Law, Interpersonal Influence, Organizational Change Management, Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Talent Management, Technical Credibility
The anticipated base pay range for this position is:
€56,100.00 - €96,945.00
Benefits:
In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.
*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.