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Country Head of People Experience – Japan
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🇺🇸 Toranomon (NPKK Head Office)
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
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The US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description Summary The Country Head of People Experience is the P&O leader who carries full accountability for all P&O-related experiences in a country and is responsible for local execution of business and people strategies where this impacts the local workforce, covering all business units that operate out of that country – to the business, to employees, and to external parties including regulatory bodies, works councils, and trade unions. The role partners closely with the global and local P&O Workforce Strategy Heads to understand the local business strategies and to identify how best to support the implementation of people related strategies. The local P&O Workforce Strategy Head is the primary contact for the local Business Leader. This is the role that local leaders and (local/ global) P&O Workforce Strategy Heads turn to for guidance on country-specific P&O practices, for escalation of complex people matters that require local legal or regulatory authority, and for trusted guidance on the local context in which their respective business strategies must be executed. The role works in close partnership with Global & Local P&O Workforce Strategy Heads to translate business and P&O strategy into actionable, locally grounded plans — and is accountable for the implementation of that people experience strategy on the ground. Alongside this strategic execution responsibility, the role ensures that global P&O products and programs land in ways that are legally compliant, culturally resonant, and genuinely adopted by employees and managers. It is the keeper of the lived people experience in-country — ensuring that what is designed globally is experienced well locally, across every moment that matters. The role provides input to People Experience Product Owners in case of issues or needs to adapt to local realities. In a federated P&O model where global product teams and global business-aligned Expertise Hub partners each play distinct roles, the Country Head of People Experience is the integrating force on the ground: the single point of accountability for P&O in-country, and the organization's most authoritative voice when local law, practice, or context requires a considered response. Job Description • Global ‘Country People Experience’ Leadership Team Member Key and active member of the Global ‘Country People Experience’ Leadership Team, together defining and driving the Novartis Country People Experience ambition, strategy and enterprise priorities. • Local P&O Accountability to the Business & External Parties This is the most fundamental accountability of the role and the one that distinguishes it from any purely product or operational function. The Country Head of People Experience is the single point of P&O accountability across all units in the country for local P&O practices and policies or in-country delivery of (relevant) P&O related products — to local business leaders who need P&O authority, to regulatory bodies that require a named responsible party, to external stakeholders including works councils, unions, labour inspectorates, and other government bodies, and to a P&O Workforce Strategy Head (global or local). The Country People Experience Head should support business leaders & P&O Workforce Strategy Heads, navigate these situations end to end. The Country head of People Experience will jointly assess together with the in-country P&O Workforce Strategy Head how certain local positions impact the local business strategies and execution and whether specific interventions are needed. The in-country P&O Workforce Strategy Head may lead the discussions with the local business leadership team to ensure streamlined communication to local leadership. • Business & P&O Strategy Execution in Partnership T