Director, Workforce Strategy & Transformation

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale a practical strategic workforce planning capability model that improves how work models evolve
• Enable adoption of skills-based planning and workforce practices
• Lead the implementation of workforce planning analytics tool
• Advise leaders on workforce implications of AI, automation, growth, and organizational change
• Improve internal mobility and workforce deployment across roles and priorities
• Support the integration of workforce planning into business planning and governance rhythms
• Partner across Senior Leaders (SLT) in HR, Strategy, Finance, IT, and business teams to drive adoption and execution
• Deliver outcomes through defined scope and cross-functional collaboration

What You’ll Deliver

• Strategic Workforce Planning, Insights & Scenario Planning
• Build and embed strategic workforce planning aligned to business priorities
• Translate strategy into critical roles, capabilities, workforce mix, and scenarios
• Develop scenarios for growth, productivity, automation, and capability shifts
• Support build, buy, borrow, and bot workforce decisions
• Connect workforce data and talent intelligence to better business decisions
• Anticipate future talent gaps through dynamic workforce planning
• Train people managers on how to maximize their team for most productive team design, leveraging technology to boost engagement and productivity
• Partner with Global Total Rewards translating plans into roles and alignment with Financial cycle planning
• Skills-Based Workforce & Mobility
• Advance skills-based planning to improve visibility into capabilities, gaps, and adjacencies
• Use skills data to support workforce decisions, internal movement, and workforce flexibility
• Help shift from static job structures to more adaptable, capability-based models
• Enable talent marketplace approaches to match talent to roles, projects, and opportunities
• Increase internal mobility and speed of redeployment
• Remove barriers that limit movement across teams and functions
• AI-Enabled Work & Role Design
• Improve how work is structured using AI, automation, and digital tools
• Help teams redesign roles and workflows to better combine human and digital work as one system
• Work with the business and functions to intentionally cultivate AI enabler roles
• Champion capabilities at the intersection of business and technology, breaking down for org models, hiring, development, rewards, enablement and community connection, to proactively transform business

Experience & Background

• 10–15+ years in workforce strategy, organizational development, HR strategy, or related fields
• Experience in medtech, pharma, health tech, or similarly complex environments preferred
• Strategic workforce planning, scenario planning and decision support processes, org design, operating model, or workforce effectiveness
• AI, automation, or digital impact on work design
• Demonstrated passion for AI as a tech-savvy specialist combining business knowledge with technical AI fluency, including coding, development, and system design expertise, enabling them to translate business challenges into implemented AI solutions rapidly
• Skills-based workforce or talent practices, leading cross-functional work in complex, matrixed organizations
• Preferred Master’s degree in HR, Business, Organizational Design, or related field
• Background in consulting, workforce strategy, or transformation work
• Experience with workforce planning, analytics, or skills platforms