[Hiring] Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation @LivaNova

Role Description

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.

Notice to third party agencies

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