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Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation

LivaNova

Any City, USRemotePosted 6 days ago
Full TimeDirector & AboveCorporate FunctionsMedical Device
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Summary

In this role you will lead how LivaNova plans its workforce and evolves how work gets done. Focusing on strategic workforce planning, skills-based approaches, and internal mobility to improve capability, productivity, and decision quality, while advancing AI-enabled work redesign. You will create tools and structure that help our leaders and business partners build forward-looking workforce strategies aligned to business priorities, translating strategy into capabilities, critical roles, and workforce mix decisions.

Job description

What You’ll Deliver

Strategic Workforce Planning, Insights & Scenario Planning

  • Build and embed strategic workforce planning aligned to business priorities
  • Translate strategy into critical roles, capabilities, workforce mix, and scenarios
  • Develop scenarios for growth, productivity, automation, and capability shifts
  • Support build, buy, borrow, and bot workforce decisions
  • Connect workforce data and talent intelligence to better business decisions
  • Anticipate future talent gaps through dynamic workforce planning
  • Train people managers on how to maximize their team for most productive team design, leveraging technology to boost engagement and productivity
  • Partner with Global Total Rewards translating plans into roles and alignment with Financial cycle planning

Skills-Based Workforce & Mobility

  • Advance skills-based planning to improve visibility into capabilities, gaps, and adjacencies
  • Use skills data to support workforce decisions, internal movement, and workforce flexibility
  • Help shift from static job structures to more adaptable, capability-based models
  • Enable talent marketplace approaches to match talent to roles, projects, and opportunities
  • Increase internal mobility and speed of redeployment
  • Help remove barriers that limit movement across teams and functions

AI-Enabled Work & Role Design

  • Improve how work is structured using AI, automation, and digital tools
  • Help teams redesign roles and workflows to better combine human and digital work as one system
  • Work with the business and functions to intentionally cultivate AI enabler roles. Champion capabilities at the intersection of business and technology, breaking down for org models, hiring, development, rewards, enablement and community connection, to proactively transform business.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and scale a practical strategic workforce planning capability model that improves how work models evolve
  • Enable adoption of skills-based planning and workforce practices
  • Lead the implementation of workforce planning analytics tool
  • Advise leaders on workforce implications of AI, automation, growth, and organizational change
  • Improve internal mobility and workforce deployment across roles and priorities
  • Support the integration of workforce planning into business planning and governance rhythms
  • Partner across HR, Strategy, Finance, IT, and business teams to drive adoption and execution
  • Deliver outcomes through defined scope and cross-functional collaboration

What Good Looks Like

  • Clear workforce plans established for priority business areas
  • Workforce planning integrated into planning and decision-making processes
  • Improved visibility into workforce risks, capability needs, and options
  • Increased internal mobility and faster redeployment
  • Measurable shift toward skills-based workforce decisions
  • Improved workforce productivity and efficiency through better work design
  • Stronger workforce decisions across cost, capability, and quality

Experience & Background

  • 10–15+ years as HR Business Partner, Talent leader, OD, HR Strategy, or related fields
  • Experience in medtech, pharma, health tech, or similarly complex and regulated environments preferred
  • Org design, operating model, or workforce effectiveness
  • Experience with Talent planning processes related to workforce and succession plans
  • Strategic workforce planning
  • Scenario planning and decision support processes
  • AI, automation, or digital impact on work design
  • Demonstrated passion for AI as a tech-savvy specialist combining business knowledge with technical AI fluency, including coding, development, and system design expertise
  • Skills-based workforce or talent practices
  • Leading cross-functional work in complex, matrixed organizations

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in HR, Business, Organizational Design, or related field
  • Background in consulting, workforce strategy, or transformation work
  • Experience with workforce planning, analytics, or skills platforms

Requirements

  • 10–15+ years as HR Business Partner, Talent leader, OD, HR Strategy, or related fields
  • Experience in medtech, pharma, health tech, or similarly complex and regulated environments preferred
  • Org design, operating model, or workforce effectiveness
  • Experience with Talent planning processes related to workforce and succession plans
  • Strategic workforce planning
  • Scenario planning and decision support processes
  • AI, automation, or digital impact on work design
  • Demonstrated passion for AI as a tech-savvy specialist combining business knowledge with technical AI fluency, including coding, development, and system design expertise
  • Skills-based workforce or talent practices
  • Leading cross-functional work in complex, matrixed organizations
  • Master’s degree in HR, Business, Organizational Design, or related field
  • Background in consulting, workforce strategy, or transformation work
  • Experience with workforce planning, analytics, or skills platforms

Company overview

LivaNova PLC is a global medical technology company with nearly five decades of experience in developing innovative medical solutions for neurological and cardiac conditions. Headquartered in London with operations in over 100 countries, the company employs approximately 2,900 professionals worldwide. LivaNova operates through two primary business segments: Cardiopulmonary and Neuromodulation. The Cardiopulmonary division focuses on perfusion systems, oxygenators, and autotransfusion devices, including the market-leading Essenz™ Perfusion System and world's number one heart-lung machine. The Neuromodulation segment specializes in VNS Therapy™ for treating drug-resistant epilepsy and difficult-to-treat depression. With annual revenues exceeding $1.25 billion, LivaNova has established itself as a leader in medical device innovation, having treated millions of patients globally. The company maintains manufacturing and R&D facilities across Europe and the United States, all ISO 13485 certified, and continues to advance clinical research in areas like obstructive sleep apnea and treatment-resistant depression.

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