Director of Workforce Strategy & Transformation, Livanova
May travel up to 25% of time
Global medical technology company
Be an early applicant
Global medical technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
May travel up to 25% of time
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
- 10–15+ years in workforce strategy, organizational development, HR strategy, or related fields
- Experience in medtech, pharma, health tech, or similarly complex environments preferred
- Strategic workforce planning
- Scenario planning and decision support processes
- Org design, operating model, or workforce effectiveness
- 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, enabling them to translate business challenges into implemented AI solutions rapidly
- Skills-based workforce or talent practices
- Leading cross-functional work in complex, matrixed organizations
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- You'll 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 Sr Leaders (SLT) in 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
- This role is an individual contributor and may travel up to 25% of time
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
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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