Manager Site Culture & Engagement

Meet the team

The Site Culture & Engagement team brings Dexcom's culture to life across our global manufacturing and operations sites. We connect enterprise priorities with locally relevant experiences that strengthen communication, recognition, development, belonging, and performance. As Manager, Site Culture & Engagement, you will lead a multi-site portfolio, guide a distributed team, and partner with site and People & Culture leaders to make culture part of how work gets done every day.

Where you come in

• You lead the annual and ongoing culture and engagement strategy for the Mesa site and San Diego Product Innovation Center, aligning local priorities with enterprise culture and employee experience direction.
• You own an integrated portfolio of site engagement, recognition, communication, development, and community-building initiatives, with clear objectives, implementation plans, measures, and sustainment approaches.
• You manage, coach, and develop Site Culture & Engagement Specialists in Athenry, Ireland and Penang, Malaysia, establishing clear priorities, decision rights, performance expectations, and shared ways of working.
• You establish common planning, governance, communication, measurement, and reporting practices across sites while enabling appropriate local adaptation.
• You oversee site-specific and cross-site programs, balancing scope, resources, sequencing, risk, and stakeholder alignment.
• You partner with site leadership, People & Culture, Enterprise Communications, Talent & Development, ERGs, and functional teams to identify needs and prioritize the highest-value opportunities.
• You develop original site communication content and adapt enterprise campaigns for local channels, including staff meetings, shift huddles, newsletters, presentation decks, posters, and digital signage.
• You connect site feedback and operating realities to enterprise teams, influencing decisions through practical insight, structured recommendations, and clear tradeoffs.
• You define success measures, use employee listening and program data to recommend action, and provide concise updates on outcomes, risks, resource needs, and improvement opportunities.

What makes you successful

• You bring strong experience setting strategy and leading complex, cross-functional programs from design through implementation and evaluation.
• You have the ability to adapt enterprise programs across global teams and cultures.
• You are an effective people leader who creates clarity through expectations, coaching, prioritization, timely feedback, and shared learning across locations.
• You operate confidently through ambiguity and balance enterprise consistency with the distinct needs of sites, cultures, and geographies.
• You build credibility with senior leaders and influence decisions through sound judgment, executive-ready communication, facilitation, consultation, and disciplined execution.
• You use employee feedback, program data, and business context to establish priorities, assess outcomes, and strengthen programs over time.
• You have experience in employee engagement, culture, employee communications, learning and development, organizational development, HR programs, or a related discipline.
• You can travel up to 30%, including international travel, and can support flexible hours based on site and global business needs.
• Your experience in manufacturing, operations, medical device, life sciences, or another regulated environment is preferred; change management, organizational development, project management, HR, or communications certification is a plus.
• Your proficiency with Microsoft 365 collaboration and communication tools is strong.

Education Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of industry experience. At this level, a graduate degree may be desirable with 4 years of related experience.