Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation

LivaNova; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LivaNova seeks a seasoned HR leader to shape strategic workforce planning, agile talent management, and AI-enabled work design. You will drive capabilities, roles, and deployment plans across the organization, partnering with executives to align people strategy with business goals.

This role emphasizes visionary workforce planning, talent mobility, and data-driven decision making in a regulated healthcare environment, with cross-functional leadership across global teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in HR leadership roles (HRBP, Talent leader, OD, HR Strategy)
• Experience in medtech, pharma, or regulated healthcare environments preferred
• Expertise in organizational design and operating models
• Experience with talent planning processes, workforce and succession planning
• Strategic workforce planning and scenario planning experience
• AI, automation, or digital work design experience
• Strong ability to lead cross-functional work in complex, matrixed organizations

Responsibilities

• Build and scale a strategic workforce planning capability model aligned to business priorities
• Enable adoption of skills-based planning and workforce practices
• Lead the implementation of a 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 integration of workforce planning into business planning and governance rhythms
• Partner with HR, Strategy, Finance, IT, and business teams to drive adoption and execution
• Deliver outcomes through defined scope and cross-functional collaboration

Skills

HR Business Partner

Talent leadership

Organizational design

Workforce planning

Scenario planning

AI fluency

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Master's degree in HR/Business/Organizational Design

Job description

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.

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.