Global Head of People Experience & Change - Orthopedics

Position Summary
- Global Head of People Experience & Change - Orthopedics.
- Design and lead an employee experience strategy by driving enterprise-wide change initiatives to improve business performance, organizational agility, and employee engagement.
- Shape employee experience across the lifecycle (onboarding, career growth, leadership transitions, organizational change, wellbeing, recognition, culture).
- Oversee change management for major enterprise initiatives to ensure adoption, engagement, readiness, and measurable impact globally.

Key Responsibilities
- Global People Experience Strategy
- Define and lead a global People Experience vision aligned to business strategy and company culture.
- Design experiences for lifecycle moments: attraction/onboarding (incl. IT), growth/development, performance/feedback, career mobility, rewards/recognition, leadership transitions, wellbeing/inclusion, offboarding/alumni.
- Use journey mapping, employee listening, and behavioral insights.
- Enterprise Change Management
- Lead change for transformations: organizational redesign, digital/HR tech transformation, M&A/integrations/carve-outs, new operating models, workforce strategy shifts, culture transformation.
- Build enterprise readiness, adoption, and stakeholder engagement plans.
- Employee Listening & Insights
- Own listening strategy (surveys, pulse surveys, focus groups, sentiment analysis, diagnostics).
- Translate insights into actions; measure outcomes by business unit/region/level/segment.
- Communications & Engagement
- Partner with Internal Communications and executives; ensure consistent global messaging and leader toolkits.
- Governance, Metrics & ROI
- Establish KPIs; build dashboards for adoption, engagement, readiness, productivity impact, retention, and program ROI.
- Leadership & Team Building
- Build and lead a global center of excellence; develop capabilities in change management, experience design, communications, analytics, and program execution.

Required Experience
- 15+ years progressive HR/transformation/employee experience/organizational effectiveness/consulting leadership.
- Proven success leading enterprise-wide global change in complex matrixed organizations.
- Expertise in employee experience design and change management methodologies.
- Experience in multinational environments.
- Strong analytics with ability to act on data.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management.

Preferred Experience
- Fortune 500/public company experience.
- Consulting (McKinsey/BCG/Deloitte/Accenture) or enterprise transformation office.
- Healthcare/medtech/manufacturing/consumer or other complex regulated industries.
- M&A integration, spin-off, or carve-out experience.
- Familiarity with HR technology platforms (Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle, ServiceNow, etc.).

Benefits (time off)
- Vacation: 120 hours/year; Sick time: 40 hours/year (CO: 48; WA: 56).
- Holiday pay incl. floating holidays: 13 days/year.
- Work/personal/family time: up to 40 hours/year.
- Parental leave: 480 hours within one year of birth/adoption/foster care.
- Bereavement leave: 240 hours immediate family (40 hours extended family)/year.
- Caregiver leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period.
- Volunteer leave: 32 hours/year.
- Military spouse time-off: 80 hours/year.