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A Day in the Life

Take on a pivotal role as a HR Director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and The Netherlands and make your mark across our diabetes business teams. As a key HR Business Partner, you'll play a crucial part in enhancing employee experiences while accelerating business success. In this dynamic, results-oriented position, you will collaborate with business leaders and the holistic HR function to lead transformative programs in talent acquisition, cultural evolution, Inclusion, performance and talent management, employee relations, total rewards, and organizational effectiveness.

Reporting to a Vice President HR, you'll deliver strategic HR partnership and practical support to our commercial structure across a wide region of DACH.

You will be based in the Duesseldorf area, Germany and will manage a sub-regional remote team, along with directly covering employee population and supporting senior business leaders in your region.

Medtronic Diabetes Business Overview:
The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We’re committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions are designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control, while spending less time managing their disease.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care. Our HR team will play a pivotal role in the journey to become a standalone company.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Organization, Talent, and Culture Planning: Collaborate with Busines Leaders across the region to provide high-impact HR solutions.  Support critical HR processes, including workforce planning, compensation reviews, performance management partnership with the HR COEs.  Communicate and implement proactive strategies pertaining to employee retention and engagement, succession planning in support of strategic objectives. Work with leaders to foster a positive and inclusive organizational culture
• Change Management/Organization Effectiveness: Support organizational change initiatives and provide guidance on change management process.
• Talent and Leadership Development: Partners with Global Talent Development on strategies to develop and enhance business and technical capabilities for the employee population to include knowledge enhancement, career and leadership development.
• Talent Acquisition: Support Leaders and the Talent Acquisition COE to identify and staff critical roles, build organization capabilities, and bench strength.
• Employee Relations & Communications: Partner with the Employee Relations COE and leaders to anticipate, identify and facilitate resolution of employee relations issues.
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity: Champion ID&E efforts to ensure a diverse and inclusive workforce. Partner with HR and leadership to develop and implement ID&E initiatives
• HR Data Analytics: Detect organizational trends and alert HR partners to enable appropriate actions. Use HR data to measure progress and provide insights for data-driven decision-making. Provide regular updates to stakeholders to communicate program progress and outcomes.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of progressive HR experience, Masters degree is an advantage
• Minimum 5 yeas of experience managing remote teams
• Minimum 5 years experience in multinational matrixed environment
• Independent driver, consistently delivering results that support business performance
• Proven positive track record of working with business leaders
• Ability to analyze complex data and drive fact-based decision making
• Strong coaching, sonsulting and influencing skills
• Understanding of Labor and Industrial relations, proven track record of working in co-determination and WC environment

Nice to Have - Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or related business degree
• Successful track record of implementing HR programs in a fast-paced global business.
• Experience in Medical device, Technology, Healthcare, or Consumer Product industry a plus. Experience working with Commercial and R&D teams a plus.
• Strong understanding of talent management, development, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness best practices.
• Collaborative - Reaches across boundaries internally and externally to develop and extensive network of partnerships. Experience in a global, matrix management structure, and working with a virtual workforce. Ability to manage a complex set of stakeholders.
• Flexible - Demonstrated career flexibility and adaptation
• Proficiency in HRIS software (Workday)

MiniMed Separation

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.​

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

 

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik:  Germany: 124,800.00 EUR - 187,200.00 EUR | 

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

About Medtronic

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Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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