Global Head of People Experience & Change - Orthopedics

About This Role

This executive leadership role focuses on designing and leading the employee experience strategy and driving enterprise-wide change initiatives for the Orthopedics business. The position is responsible for enabling superior business performance, organizational agility, and employee engagement by shaping the employee lifecycle from onboarding to career growth, wellbeing, recognition, and culture. The leader will also oversee change management for major enterprise initiatives, ensuring successful adoption and measurable impact across global markets.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global People Experience vision aligned to business strategy and company culture
• Design employee experiences across key lifecycle moments, targeted to specific employee groups including attraction and onboarding (including IT), growth and development, performance and feedback, career mobility, rewards and recognition, leadership transitions, wellbeing and inclusion, and offboarding/alumni
• Apply journey mapping, employee listening, and behavioral insights to redesign experiences
• Lead change strategy and execution for enterprise-wide transformations including organizational redesign, digital/HR technology transformation, M&A/integrations/carve-outs, new operating models, workforce strategy shifts, and culture transformation
• Build enterprise readiness, adoption, and stakeholder engagement plans
• Own employee listening strategy including engagement surveys, pulse surveys, focus groups, sentiment analysis, and targeted diagnostics
• Translate insights into actions that improve experience and performance
• Measure outcomes by business unit, region, level, and employee segment
• Partner with Internal Communications and executives to create compelling narratives during change
• Ensure consistent, transparent, and inspiring employee communications globally
• Equip leaders with messaging and toolkits
• Establish KPIs for employee experience and change effectiveness
• Build dashboards measuring adoption, engagement, readiness, productivity impact, retention, and program ROI
• Report progress to executive leadership and Board committees as needed
• Build and lead a high-performing global center of excellence team
• Develop capabilities in change management, experience design, communications, analytics, and program execution

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Human Resources, Transformation, Employee Experience, Organizational Effectiveness, Consulting, or related fields
• Proven success leading enterprise-wide global change initiatives in complex matrixed organizations
• Deep expertise in employee experience design and change management methodologies