Director of Global Payroll Process Leader, Livanova
€112.5-168.8k
+ Bonus target: 20% + Employee stock purchase plan
Global medical technology company
Be an early applicant
Global medical technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€112.5-168.8k
+ Bonus target: 20% + Employee stock purchase plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide hope for patients and their families through innovative medical technologies, delivering life-changing improvements for both the Head and Heart.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; a relevant professional payroll certification is preferred
- 10+ years of progressive payroll leadership experience, with proven responsibility for payroll across multiple regions and knowledge with US payroll
- Strong knowledge of multi-regional payroll practices, statutory requirements, tax regulations, payroll controls, compliance frameworks, and audit readiness
- Proven experience leading payroll transformation and operational improvement, including process standardization, simplification, automation, supplier consolidation, and shared services operating models
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities, with experience managing external suppliers, implementation partners, and geographically dispersed teams, combined with excellent communication, executive presence, project management, analytical, and risk-management skills
What the job involves
- You will partner with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Procurement, IT, Internal Audit, shared services, and external payroll providers to strengthen controls, improve service delivery, and create a trusted payroll experience for employees
- This is an opportunity to shape and modernize a global payroll function, leading transformation across a complex multi-country landscape while acting as the senior escalation point for payroll matters at the leadership level
- Own the global payroll strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with HR and business priorities while delivering accurate, timely, and compliant payroll across all regions, including direct oversight of US payroll
- Establish strong payroll governance, controls, and compliance, ensuring consistent validations, checks, and approvals while leading internal, external, and statutory audits and addressing corrective actions
- Lead global payroll transformation, including supplier consolidation, operating model modernization, process standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement to reduce manual effort and operational risk
- Manage the global payroll ecosystem, including shared services and external payroll providers, setting service levels and KPIs, monitoring performance, and leading supplier selection, contracting, and onboarding where required
- Champion the employee payroll experience, ensuring employees receive accurate, timely, and easy-to-understand pay while simplifying employee-facing processes, communications, and query resolution
- Own the payroll technology roadmap, partnering with IT to enhance payroll, HCM, and time & attendance systems and ensuring effective integration with HR and Finance systems
- Lead and develop a high-performing global payroll team, working across geographically dispersed and multicultural environments while partnering with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Procurement, IT, and Internal Audit and serving as the senior escalation point for payroll matters
Our take
LivaNova creates advanced medical devices and treatments in areas like cardiopulmonary care and neuromodulation, helping both patients and healthcare professionals worldwide. With its diverse range of products and a presence in over 100 countries, it is a leader in this field, striving to improve the lives of those who need it most.
Officially founded in 2015, the company's history actually stretches back to the founding of Sorin Biomedica in 1956. LivaNova was founded from the merging of Sorin with Cyberonics, which is how it came to be at the forefront of innovation in both cardiovascular disease and neuromodulation.
One of the company's breakthrough treatments is for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition where breathing stops and starts during sleep. Its device, the aura6000, earned FDA approval in 2026. This opens up the opportunity for LivaNova to become a major competitor in the sleep apnea market, positioning it for exciting growth in an expanding field.
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Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Vladimir Makatsaria
(CEO)Previously spent over 27 years at Johnson & Johnson, while there they served in various roles, including Company Group Chairman of Ethicon Global Business, Chairman of China, and Global Integration Leader among other roles.
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