Director, Employee Exp– Strat & Ops

Locations: Raritan, NJ; Raynham, MA; West Chester, PA. Job Function: Human Resources | Sub Function: HR Business Partners | Category: Professional.

About the role

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Director, Employee Experience – Strategy & Operations. This role leads complex, enterprise-wide people initiatives that shape how employees experience organizational change, new technology, operating models, and ways of working. It combines strategy, program leadership, change management, communications, and employee experience to translate business priorities into practical programs that employees and leaders can successfully adopt.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise people initiatives from strategy through implementation, including HR technology deployments, organizational redesigns, new ways of working, and policy or process changes.
• Provide end-to-end program and project leadership, developing clear charters, workplans, timelines, budgets and governance models.
• Coordinate complex cross-functional programs across HR, IT, Finance, Communications, and business teams, ensuring dependencies, risks, decisions, and accountabilities are actively managed.
• Develop and execute change and adoption strategies using structured change-management approaches such as Prosci/ADKAR or Kotter, including stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessments, readiness planning, and resistance management.
• Partner with Internal Communications and senior sponsors to build compelling change narratives, leadership messaging, communication plans, and practical toolkits that equip managers to lead employees through change.
• Design employee and leader enablement plans, including readiness activities, training strategies, resources, and ongoing support needed to successfully adopt new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Establish meaningful measures of success, including adoption measures, employee pulse surveys, experience KPIs, program performance indicators, and ROI measures, and translate results into clear insights for senior leadership.
• Create scalable governance, change-management, and PMO standards that can be reused across People initiatives to improve consistency, efficiency, and execution.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Advanced degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, change management, or a related discipline preferred.

Required Experience and Skills

• 8–10+ years in project/program management, with at least 3–5 in organizational change or HR transformation.
• Experience working within a global and/or highly matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex initiatives involving multiple functions and senior stakeholders.
• Experience developing and executing structured change-management and adoption strategies, including stakeholder, impact, readiness, and resistance planning.
• Strong program-management capability, including experience managing integrated plans, budgets, dependencies, risks, issues, and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build alignment with senior leaders and cross-functional partners without relying on direct authority.
• Strong structured problem-solving and facilitation skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to develop clear recommendations and compelling, senior-leadership-level narratives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading HR transformation, HR technology, organizational design, employee experience, or enterprise ways-of-working initiatives.
• Experience partnering closely with HR, IT, Finance, Internal Communications, and business leaders on enterprise transformation programs.
• Familiarity with recognized change-management methodologies such as Prosci/ADKAR or Kotter.
• Experience building employee listening, adoption measurement, pulse survey, experience KPI, and benefits-realization approaches.
• Experience establishing PMO, governance, or change-management standards that can be scaled across multiple programs.
• PMP, PgMP, Prosci Change Management Certification, or comparable program/change-management certification preferred.

Skills

• Business Alignment
• Coaching
• Consulting
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Employee Relations
• Employee Retention
• HR Business Partnership
• HR Strategic Management
• HR Trends
• Human Resources Consulting
• Human Resources Law
• Interpersonal Influence
• Mentorship
• Organizational Change Management
• Problem Solving
• Succession Planning
• Tactical Planning
• Talent Management
• Technical Credibility

Pay

Anticipated base pay range: $150,000 – $300,000 USD Annual.

Benefits

• Consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)) per plan terms.
• Eligible for long-term incentive program.
• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year.
• Sick time – 40 hours per calendar year (Colorado residents: 48 hours; Washington residents: 56 hours).
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year.
• Work, Personal and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year.
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of birth/adoption/foster care.
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for immediate family member; 40 hours for extended family member per calendar year.
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period.
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year.
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year.

Additional Information

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate its Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company operating as DePuy Synthes. The planned separation is anticipated to complete within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, regulatory approvals, and other customary conditions. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that following conclusion of the transaction you would become an employee of DePuy Synthes, governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. Details of any planned changes would be provided by DePuy Synthes at the appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Travel requirements will be determined based on the final scope of the role. No additional language requirements have been specified.