Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation

As a global medtech company, we are driven by our Vision of changing the trajectory of lives for a new day and our Mission to create ingenious solutions that ignite patient turnarounds. Our relentless commitment to patients and strong legacy of innovation in healthcare are the foundation of our future. If you're looking for a new chance, a new beginning, a new trajectory, LivaNova is where your talent can truly thrive. Join our talented team members worldwide to become a pioneer of tomorrow—because at LivaNova, we don’t just treat conditions — we aspire to alter the course of lives.

Helping LivaNova define and plan how work gets done

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.

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

Valuing different backgrounds:

LivaNova values equality and diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination. Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.

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