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Director of Workforce Strategy & Transformation

Livanova

Join LivaNova as the Director of Workforce Strategy & Transformation. In this role, you will lead the strategic planning of our workforce and the evolution of how work gets done. You will focus on strategic workforce planning, skills-based approaches, and internal mobility to improve capability, productivity, and decision quality. You will create tools and structures to help our leaders and business partners build forward-looking workforce strategies aligned to business priorities. This is an individual contributor role with potential travel up to 25% of the time.

Lead the development and implementation of strategic workforce planning aligned to business priorities, translating strategy into critical roles, capabilities, and workforce mix decisions.

Org design, operating model, or workforce effectiveness

Skills-based workforce or talent practices

AI, automation, or digital impact on work design

Responsibilities

  • Advance skills-based workforce planning to improve visibility into capabilities, gaps, and adjacencies, and support workforce decisions, internal movement, and workforce flexibility.
  • Drive the adoption of AI-enabled work redesign, improving how work is structured using AI, automation, and digital tools, and helping teams redesign roles and workflows.
  • Scenario planning and decision support processes
  • Leading cross-functional work in complex, matrixed organizations

Requirements

  • 10–15+ years in workforce strategy, organizational development, HR strategy, or related fields

Strategic workforce planning

  • Demonstrated passion for AI as a tech-savvy specialist combining business knowledge with technical AI fluency, including coding, development, and system design expertise, enabling them to translate business challenges into implemented AI solutions rapidly
  • 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

Preferred

  • Experience in medtech, pharma, health tech, or similarly complex environments preferred