Sr HR Program Director - CST

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 2 Aug 2025

 

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 LifeOur Company
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make a tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
Cranial and Spinal Technologies Operating Unit & Our Purpose
The Cranial and Spinal Technologies (CST) operating unit is redefining cranial and spinal procedures to reduce variability and improve outcomes, with the goal of restoring long-term quality of life for more patients. We are the market leader in spinal implants, robotics, and navigation, and the first company to offer an integrated solution that includes artificial intelligence-driven surgical planning, personalized spinal implants, and robotic-assisted surgical delivery to make patient care more customized.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations – but we only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patient’s lives. Help us shape the future.

The Opportunity

The Senior Human Resources Director serves as a member of the CST HR Team, reporting directly to the VP, HR for the CST Operating Unit (OU) and is a key business partner and trusted advisor to the Spine & Biologics leadership team and the Global Regulatory, Clinical and Health Economics & Reimbursement leadership team.  In this role you will provide HR leadership and consultation to the business to achieve short and long term strategic and organizational priorities.  You are accountable for organizational development and effectiveness, organizational change management, leadership coaching, workforce planning and talent management.  Additionally, you will collaborate with other HR Business Partners, HR Centers of Expertise (COE) and Shared Services resources to ensure the effective execution of HR Programs and initiatives, providing a significant impact to business results and the overall employee experience.    

      

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite, (this role is based in our Lafayette, CO office) as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

A Day in the Life

The CST Operation Unit has 4,000 employees with gross revenue of $5B. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties as assigned.

Organizational Development and Design

• Assesses critical business issues, designs organization development tools, and evaluates both long/short-term strategic plans to enhance company performance

• Designs and implements programs and processes including organizational design, process improvement, and training to enhance the effectiveness of managers, teams and organizations to increase productivity and customer satisfaction

• Assesses critical business issues and designs organization development and strategic plans to enhance company performance

• Facilitates change management through design and implementation of reengineering and/or reorganization efforts; and

• Advises on team design and performance and how effectively the organization is aligned across the globe for succeeding as one CST team.

Driving Change Management

• Identify the need for changing mindsets and behaviors in order to deliver our Mission and business strategy; offer thought partnership to develop change management plan to deliver the required outcomes; and

• Partner with assigned leader(s) to leverage change acceleration techniques, create team effectiveness plans, enable culture development plans, bring employee engagement plans to life, and drive inclusion and diversity initiatives.

Connecting Business and People/Talent Strategy

• Provide strategic direction to build upon our high-performance culture

• Actively participates with business leadership in strategy development and operational planning

• Establish strong partnering relationships across Medtronic business operating units, regions, and functions to enable business outcomes

• Maintain an “outside-in” perspective to leverage current industry and Medtronic best practices and insights in support of business and talent strategies

• Enable leadership effectiveness

• Influence business outcomes through credible and authentic relationships with leaders and colleagues

• Counsel leaders in alignment with Medtronic policies/practices, legal considerations, and company priorities—advocating both company and employee concerns; and

• Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders in the OU, giving effective feedback, performance coaching, and development advice in support of leadership effectiveness.

Creating an Aligned and Cohesive HR Experience

Key integrated partnerships include:

• Organizational Development/Effectiveness – Partner to consult, assess and drive organizational effectiveness strategies

• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity - Drive progress toward GIDE aspirations and ensure diversity of talent

• Talent Management - Partner to implement regular talent and organizational reviews, career development planning, performance management, workforce planning, and organizational health assessments/surveys

• Talent Acquisition – Partner to identify key functional and leadership talent to strengthen the talent pipeline and increase organizational diversity.

• Total Rewards - Partner to effectively implement and communicate Medtronic compensation and benefits programs to successfully attract, motivate and retain employees.  Ensure clear differentiation of performance in rewards and recognition; and

• Employee Relations - Partner to anticipate, identify and facilitate resolution of employee relations issues.

Minimum Requirements "Must Have's"

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 15 years of progressive experience in HR or Master’s degree and at least 13 years of progressive experience in HR, with exposure to high performing organizations, including HR best practices

• 8 years of managerial experience (people and/or programs)

Preferred Requirements "Nice to Have"

• In-depth knowledge of business management concepts and practical applications gained through cross-functional business experience

• Broad industry experience spanning life sciences, technology, manufacturing and/or CPG

• Experience working with teams outside the US and/or how to think about talent strategies that span the globe

• Strong analytical, project management and execution skills

• Business acumen: Good business sense and judgement reflected in key decisions made

• Problem solving: Well-honed analytical and problem-solving skills. Creative, risk-taking and results oriented mindset

• Influencing: Communicates with impact.  Uses tailored communication and creates authentic and trusting relationships to influence clients, especially related to organizational planning & design. Confidence in own ideas as demonstrated by external conference speaking engagements, published articles, participation in panel discussions, industry association work, or teaching.

• Consulting: Strong coaching, consulting and facilitation skills

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to accomplish work through others, including leading project teams. Demonstrated experience in initiating and leading change, including modeling the importance, motivating others, managing the key drivers of change, and overcoming obstacles.

• Self-Management: Self-directed work style, able to work autonomously with minimal direction and deliver results with customer service skills, action-oriented, operates with sense of urgency. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Flexible: Demonstrated career flexibility and adaptation skills (e.g., successful industry or company changes with minimal learning curve; cross-cultural experience and flexibility if dictated by scope of organization)

• Collaborative: Reaches across boundaries internally and externally to develop and extensive network of partnerships.  Experience in a global, matrix management structure, and working with a virtual workforce.  Ability to manage a complex set of stakeholders; and

• Executive MBA with HR specification or Master’s degree in HR.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$208,800.00 - $313,200.00

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

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

 

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.