Employee Experience, Listening & Culture Lead

About the Role

Agilent’s Global Talent Management Center of Excellence is our talent innovation engine. We are committed to fueling business growth through smart, data-powered talent strategies and solutions that build future-ready capabilities, strengthen leadership pipelines, boost performance, and foster continuous development. As the Employee Experience, Listening & Culture Lead, you will shape the employee experience at Agilent, ensuring employees feel heard, connected, included, and empowered to do their best work. This role leads Agilent’s global listening strategy, turning employee insights from Workday Peakon and other sources into actions that drive impact. You will partner with business and country leaders, HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence, employees, and leaders worldwide to advance engagement, spearhead culture initiatives, and amplify the work of Agilent’s Employee Network Groups.

Responsibilities

• Shape Agilent’s employee experience strategy across engagement, listening, and culture.
• Design and implement an enterprise listening strategy using Peakon to generate actionable insights.
• Lead culture initiatives that strengthen connection, inclusion, leadership alignment, and employee pride.
• Partner globally with business and country leaders, HRBPs, COEs, and employees to translate insights into action.
• Enable leaders with clear data, practical tools, and compelling narratives to support engagement and culture outcomes.
• Serve as the enterprise lead for Agilent's Country General Manager network, shaping engagement strategies and enabling Country General Managers to strengthen employee connection, communication, and culture locally.
• Lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of Agilent's Employee Network Groups (ENGs), ensuring initiatives, funding, and priorities support employee connection, community building, and Agilent's culture objectives.
• Create a cohesive enterprise framework connecting CGMs, Employee Network Groups, employee listening insights, and culture initiatives into a unified employee experience strategy supported by clear governance, communications, measurement, and activation plans.
• Develop and drive the internal and external narrative for Agilent’s employee experience and culture work, including leadership messaging, stakeholder updates, ESG-related reporting inputs, and external recognition or disclosure opportunities.
• Build strong global partnerships to ensure engagement and culture work is consistent, relevant, and scalable.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through employee insights, analytics, and external best practices.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to embed engagement actions and culture practices across Agilent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field.
• Certifications such as SHRM, CIPD, or equivalent preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in employee engagement, listening, culture, employee experience, or related HR role in a global and/or matrixed organization.
• Experience with Workday and employee listening platforms; Peakon experience strongly preferred.

Skills

• Deep expertise in employee engagement, culture, listening, and employee experience.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Confident storyteller who can translate employee feedback into compelling narratives.
• Highly organized and strategic thinker with the ability to connect multiple employee-facing initiatives into a coherent enterprise agenda.
• Enterprise-minded leader with a forward-looking vision for engagement, listening, and culture.
• Strong project management and communication capability, with the ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to partner effectively with HRBPs, Enterprise Communications, the broader Talent Management COE, and external partners.
• Digital literacy across HCM systems, dashboards, listening platforms, and employee analytics tools.

Pay

The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $143,760.00 - $269,550.00 per year plus eligibility for bonus, stock, and benefits. Pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location, with individual pay based on job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Schedule

This is a full-time position with a standard weekly schedule. Occasional travel is required.