Director, Employee Experience & Transformation Strategy

6149-DePuy Synthes Products Inc. Legal Entity; Raynham (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

401(k) savings plan

Time off benefits

Job summary

DePuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson company, seeks a Director, Employee Experience – Strategy & Operations, based in Raynham, MA, or other locations. Lead enterprise people initiatives shaping how employees experience organizational change, new technology, operating models, and ways of working.

You will blend strategy, program leadership, change management, communications, and employee experience to translate business priorities into practical programs adopted by employees and leaders.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years in project/program management, with at least 3-5 in organizational change or HR transformation.
• Experience working within a global and/or highly matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex initiatives involving multiple functions and senior stakeholders.
• Experience developing and executing structured change-management and adoption strategies, including stakeholder, impact, readiness, and resistance planning.
• Strong program-management capability, including experience managing integrated plans, budgets, dependencies, risks, issues, and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build alignment with senior leaders and cross-functional partners without relying on direct authority.
• Strong structured problem-solving and facilitation skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to develop clear recommendations and compelling, senior-leadership-level narratives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise people initiatives from strategy through implementation, including HR technology deployments, organizational redesigns, new ways of working, and policy or process changes.
• Provide end-to-end program and project leadership, developing clear charters, workplans, timelines, budgets and governance models.
• Coordinate complex cross-functional programs across HR, IT, Finance, Communications, and business teams, ensuring dependencies, risks, decisions, and accountabilities are actively managed.
• Develop and execute change and adoption strategies using structured change-management approaches such as Prosci/ADKAR or Kotter, including stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessments, readiness planning, and resistance management.
• Partner with Internal Communications and senior sponsors to build compelling change narratives, leadership messaging, communication plans, and practical toolkits that equip managers to lead employees through change.
• Design employee and leader enablement plans, including readiness activities, training strategies, resources, and ongoing support needed to successfully adopt new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Establish meaningful measures of success, including adoption measures, employee pulse surveys, experience KPIs, program performance indicators, and ROI measures, and translate results into clear insights for senior leadership.
• Create scalable governance, change-management, and PMO standards that can be reused across People initiatives to improve consistency, efficiency, and execution.

Skills

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Program Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Project Leadership

HR Transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree in Human Resources or related

Job description

DePuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson company, seeks a Director, Employee Experience – Strategy & Operations, based in Raynham, MA, or other locations. Lead enterprise people initiatives shaping how employees experience organizational change, new technology, operating models, and ways of working.

You will blend strategy, program leadership, change management, communications, and employee experience to translate business priorities into practical programs adopted by employees and leaders.