Director, Experience and Culture

Star Valley Veterinary Clinic; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

National Veterinary Associates seeks a Director of Experience & Culture to set the company strategy for strengthening team engagement, culture, and the overall employee experience across 1300 sites and the support centre.

You will lead listening architectures, culture frameworks, and experience standards, partnering with senior leaders to translate values into scalable programs and measurable workforce outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience building and leading company-wide Experience & Culture strategies.
• Ability to translate priorities into scalable programs, tools, and governance.
• Proven track record advising senior executives and influencing across functions.
• Experience integrating culture into transformations, M&A, and tech initiatives.
• Exceptional executive communication and data-to-insight skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a multi-year Experience & Culture strategy aligned with business priorities.
• Own team member-listening strategy including annual engagement insights and action plans.
• Establish leadership behavior framework and culture standards across the lifecycle.
• Develop field activation models with playbooks and toolkits for hospitals and regions.
• Oversee budget, vendors, and governance for Experience & Culture programs.
• Lead inclusion, belonging, and community-building initiatives across the organization.
• Coach and develop the Experience & Culture team and ensure accountability.

Skills

People strategy

Executive coaching

Change leadership

Culture transformation

Employee engagement

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Communication

Education

BA/BS in a related field

Master's degree preferred

HR certification preferred

SHRM-SCP/SPHR preferred

Tools

Dayforce

Gallup

Job description

Hospital Name: National Veterinary Associates

Job Type: Support Center

Employment Type: Permanent

Description & Requirements

Travel: Up to 33% annually

Job Summary

The Director, Experience & Culture sets the company strategy and operating model for strengthening team member engagement, culture, and the day-to-day team member experience across National Veterinary Associates. Reporting to the VP, Talent & Organizational Effectiveness, this role serves as a strategic advisor to People, Field Operations, Medical, and business leaders and translates NVA's values and people priorities into scalable programs, leadership practices, and measurable workforce outcomes. The Director owns the company team member-listening architecture, culture activation roadmap, recognition and belonging strategy, and experience standards across key moments in the team member lifecycle.

• Define and lead a multi-year Experience & Culture strategy aligned with NVA's business priorities, People strategy, values, and workforce needs across 1300 sites and the support centre
• Own the company team member-listening strategy, including annual engagement segmented insight generation, and action-planning governance
• Establish the company culture and leadership-behavior framework, translating NVA's values into clear expectations, practical leader routines, team agreements, and consistent ways of working
• Set experience standards across priority moments in the team member lifecycle, including onboarding, early tenure, role transitions, leadership changes, development, internal mobility, and exit
• Develop the field activation model for Experience & Culture, including hospital playbooks, leader toolkits, site champion networks, implementation guidance, and targeted interventions for hospitals, regions, or functions showing engagement or
• Integrate culture and team member-experience considerations into company transformations, acquisitions, operating-model changes, technology implementations, and major workforce initiatives; establish listening and adoption measures for affected populations
• Lead NVA's inclusion, belonging, and community-building strategy, including ally and team member resource groups, to foster connection, representation, and an environment where all team members can thrive
• Lead, coach, and develop the Experience & Culture team; establish clear accountabilities, operating rhythms, and performance expectations
• Manage the Experience & Culture operating plan, budget, technology, vendors, program governance, implementation risks, and measurement approach; evaluate program effectiveness and redirect investment when impact is not demonstrated
• Three-year Experience & Culture strategy and annual operating plan approved, funded, and translated into clear company priorities, milestones, accountabilities, and outcome measures
• Company team member-listening architecture implemented with annual survey, targeted pulses, lifecycle listening, segmented insight readouts, confidentiality standards, and action-planning governance across all divisions
• NVA culture and leadership-behavior framework developed and embedded into communications, and team routines
• Experience & Culture dashboard and quarterly executive review established with actionable trends, workforce risks, intervention priorities, and progress against company outcomes

Success Metrics/KPIs

• Engagement index: year-over-year improvement in favorable responses on core engagement items at company, division, region, and hospital levels
• Action-plan completion and effectiveness: percentage of required plans completed on time and measurable improvement in the priority items addressed
• Priority-site recovery rate: percentage of identified hospitals or regions showing sustained improvement in engagement, leadership, wellbeing, or retention indicators following intervention
• Recognition reach and participation: percentage of team members giving or receiving meaningful recognition and representation across roles, locations, and work schedules
• Program adoption and impact: participation, completion, behavior change, and targeted workforce outcomes for culture, leadership, onboarding, wellbeing, and recognition programs
• Team member confidence in follow-through: favorable response to whether leaders listen, communicate actions, and make meaningful improvements based on feedback

Key Internal and External Stakeholders

Partners (PBPs); Field Operations and Medical Operations leadership; Internal Communications; Learning & Development; Talent Management and Succession; People Operations; People Analytics and People Systems; Total Rewards and Benefits; Talent Acquisition; Inclusion & Belonging; Legal, Compliance, and Safety; M&A and Integration teams; and hospital leadership teams.

External

Engagement and pulse-survey platform vendors; recognition technology providers; wellbeing, mental-health, and team member-assistance partners; leadership?development and executive-coaching providers; culture and organizational-development consultants; facilitation and learning partners; employer-brand agencies; veterinary professional associations; and healthcare and workforce benchmarking organizations.

Experience

• 8+ years of progressive expertise in team member experience, engagement, leadership development, or closely related People roles
• Experience supporting large, multi-site, distributed, frontline-heavy organizations; veterinary services, healthcare, hospitality, retail health, or another clinical or service environment strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing a company Experience & Culture strategy and translating broad priorities into scalable programs, field tools, governance, and sustained operating routines
• Experience advising senior executives and influencing leaders across People, Operations, Medical and other functions in a complex, matrixed organization
• Experience integrating culture and team member experience into acquisitions, reorganizations, technology implementations, or other complex company
• Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, storytelling, and data-to-insight skills, with the ability to simplify complex workforce issues for varied audiences

Education / Certifications / Licensing

• Bachelor's degree in People Management, Organizational Development, Industrial?Organizational Psychology, Communications, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field required
• Master's degree in Organizational Development, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related discipline preferred
• SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or a comparable senior-level People certification preferred
• Certification or demonstrated proficiency in Gallup, or a comparable tool preferredFamiliarity with People systems, analytics, learning, recognition, and workflow platforms such as Dayforce, , or comparable systems preferred
• Veterinary or clinical license is not required; familiarity with veterinary healthcare, clinical teams, or 24/7 care environments is strongly preferred

Job requirements, including essential job responsibilities, key deliverables and outcomes, and success metrics, are subject to change based on business needs