Senior HR Generalist

Medtronic; Saudi Arabia; Hybrid; SAR 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare technology firm is seeking a Senior HR Generalist to act as a strategic HR partner. This role involves aligning HR strategies with business needs, supporting the full employee life cycle, and enhancing organizational effectiveness in a hybrid model based in Saudi Arabia. The ideal candidate will have significant HR experience, strong relationship-building skills, and a passion for solving human resource challenges.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Short-term incentive plan

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of progressive HR experience in a business partnering role.
• Proven ability to influence key decisions at multiple organizational levels.
• Experience working in a multinational or matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Align HR initiatives with business needs.
• Implement HR strategies for organizational growth.
• Lead employee lifecycle management and talent development.

Skills

HR Business Partnering

Coaching and Influencing

Data Analysis

Organizational Change

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

HR Systems

Job description

At Medtronic you can begin a life‑long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic is looking for a Senior HR Generalist to serve as a trusted Human Resources Business Partner to our business and functional leaders. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and execute people strategies that enable organizational performance and employee growth. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast‑paced environment, values strong relationships, and is motivated by solving business challenges through impactful HR solutions. Based in either Jeddah or Riyadh in a hybrid working model, this role provides hands‑on business partnership to leaders and employees across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The Senior HR Generalist will support the full employee life cycle, workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, and employee experience initiatives. The role includes regular collaboration with cross‑functional teams and global HR counterparts and offers high exposure across the business.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic HR Business Partner to leaders by aligning HR initiatives with business needs
• Design, implement, and execute HR strategies that support organizational growth and performance
• Partner with leaders to identify and resolve workforce and talent needs proactively
• Lead employee lifecycle management, organizational effectiveness and talent development initiatives
• Serve as HR liaison in key programs and drive improvements to HR processes, systems and ways of working
• Support HR data analysis and workforce insights, including dashboards and reporting to inform business decisions
• Manage operational HR activities to ensure smooth execution of processes, compliance and employee experience
• Coach and support HR colleagues when applicable

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required (preferably in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field)
• Minimum 7 years of progressive HR experience, ideally in a business partnering role supporting leaders and teams
• Proven ability to build credibility, coach leaders and influence key decisions at multiple organizational levels
• Strong experience supporting HR projects, organizational change and employee development initiatives
• Proficiency with HR systems and ability to work with HR data, dashboards and reporting to support insights and decisions
• Demonstrated capability to work independently, balance multiple priorities and apply sound judgment when navigating complex or sensitive situations

Experience working in a multinational or matrix organization, familiarity with Saudi and Gulf labour law, exposure to talent management or organizational development, and experience handling HR data insights, dashboards or analytics are an advantage. CIPD or SHRM certification is also beneficial, but the right mindset and strong capability to partner closely with the business remain the most important.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short‑term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart — putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.