Global Head of People Experience & Change - Orthopedics
Johnson & Johnson
5 hours ago
Remote friendly (Raynham, MA)
United States
Human Resources
Position Summary
- Global Head of People Experience & Change - Orthopedics: Design and lead an employee experience strategy by driving enterprise-wide change initiatives to enable superior business performance, organizational agility, and employee engagement.
- Shape the employee experience across the lifecycle (onboarding, career growth, leadership transitions, organizational change, wellbeing, recognition, culture moments).
- Oversee change management for major enterprise initiatives to ensure adoption, engagement, readiness, and measurable impact globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Global People Experience Strategy: Define the global People Experience vision; design experiences across 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 strategy/execution for organizational redesign, digital/HR technology transformation, M&A/integrations/carve-outs, new operating models, workforce strategy shifts, and culture transformation; build readiness/adoption/stakeholder engagement plans.
- Employee Listening & Insights: Own engagement surveys, pulse surveys, focus groups, sentiment analysis, targeted diagnostics; translate insights into actions; measure outcomes by BU/region/level/segment.
- Communications & Engagement: Partner with Internal Communications/executives; create narratives, ensure consistent global communications, equip leaders with messaging/toolkits.
- Governance, Metrics & ROI: Establish KPIs; build dashboards (adoption, engagement, readiness, productivity impact, retention, program ROI); report progress.
- Leadership & Team Building: Build/lead a global center of excellence; develop capabilities in change management, experience design, communications, analytics, program execution.
Required Experience
- 15+ years progressive leadership in HR, transformation, employee experience, organizational effectiveness, consulting, or related fields.
- Proven success leading enterprise-wide global change initiatives in complex matrixed organizations.
- Expertise in employee experience design and change management methodologies.
- Experience in multinational environments across regions.
- Strong analytics orientation; converts data into action.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management.
Preferred Experience
- Fortune 500/public company experience.
- Consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture) or enterprise transformation office background.
- 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): 13 days/year; Work/Personal/Family Time: up to 40 hours/year; Parental Leave: 480 hours (within one year); Bereavement Leave: 240 hours immediate family (40 hours extended); Caregiver Leave: 80 hours (52-week rolling); Volunteer Leave: 32 hours/year; Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours/year.
- Global Head of People Experience & Change - Orthopedics: Design and lead an employee experience strategy by driving enterprise-wide change initiatives to enable superior business performance, organizational agility, and employee engagement.
- Shape the employee experience across the lifecycle (onboarding, career growth, leadership transitions, organizational change, wellbeing, recognition, culture moments).
- Oversee change management for major enterprise initiatives to ensure adoption, engagement, readiness, and measurable impact globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Global People Experience Strategy: Define the global People Experience vision; design experiences across 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 strategy/execution for organizational redesign, digital/HR technology transformation, M&A/integrations/carve-outs, new operating models, workforce strategy shifts, and culture transformation; build readiness/adoption/stakeholder engagement plans.
- Employee Listening & Insights: Own engagement surveys, pulse surveys, focus groups, sentiment analysis, targeted diagnostics; translate insights into actions; measure outcomes by BU/region/level/segment.
- Communications & Engagement: Partner with Internal Communications/executives; create narratives, ensure consistent global communications, equip leaders with messaging/toolkits.
- Governance, Metrics & ROI: Establish KPIs; build dashboards (adoption, engagement, readiness, productivity impact, retention, program ROI); report progress.
- Leadership & Team Building: Build/lead a global center of excellence; develop capabilities in change management, experience design, communications, analytics, program execution.
Required Experience
- 15+ years progressive leadership in HR, transformation, employee experience, organizational effectiveness, consulting, or related fields.
- Proven success leading enterprise-wide global change initiatives in complex matrixed organizations.
- Expertise in employee experience design and change management methodologies.
- Experience in multinational environments across regions.
- Strong analytics orientation; converts data into action.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management.
Preferred Experience
- Fortune 500/public company experience.
- Consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Accenture) or enterprise transformation office background.
- 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): 13 days/year; Work/Personal/Family Time: up to 40 hours/year; Parental Leave: 480 hours (within one year); Bereavement Leave: 240 hours immediate family (40 hours extended); Caregiver Leave: 80 hours (52-week rolling); Volunteer Leave: 32 hours/year; Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours/year.