Principal HR Shared Services Specialist

3 weeks ago


Galway, Galway, Ireland Medtronic Full time
Principal HR Shared Services Specialist - Global Leader Services (EMEA)

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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

The Global Leader Services Team provide world-class excellence in our human-centric solutions for our customers, enabling them to deliver on strategic priorities and achieve their goals with ease and efficiency. We leverage our creativity, proactive approaches, and technology-driven methods to simplify work processes.

As a member of Global Leader Services, you will play a crucial role in guiding and supporting people leaders through personalized coaching and strategic initiatives. You will leverage strong business acumen, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to implement HR programs that align with Medtronic's strategic goals. This role requires a deep understanding of business needs, fostering a culture of performance, inclusion, and engagement.

This will be a Flex role with the expectation that the selected candidate be onsite between both Parkmore and Athlone, four days per week in adherence to the Global Work Style Policy.

Come for a job, stay for a career

A Day in The Life Of:

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

This position will be primarily focused on driving strategic initiatives through effective communication and adaptability. Provide operational and tactical HR functions, including employee relations, policy administration, compliance, and talent management. Provide HR support at the site or regional level and serve as a trusted advisor to people leaders. Provide agile project support to adapt to changing needs.

Program Deployment & Process Improvement

  • Oversee the deployment of key Medtronic HR programs and HROM initiatives, ensuring they're implemented effectively and efficiently.
  • Proactively provide input on process improvements to help drive better outcomes.
  • Utilize strong business acumen and problem-solving skills to support people leaders in deploying HR programs.
  • Build authentic relationships and demonstrate functional and technical HR expertise.
  • Contribute to change initiatives and communicate a strong vision aligned with business strategy.
  • Adopt a business-first mindset, embracing Medtronic's Roadmap and HR priorities.
  • Provide tailored strategic advice based on a deep understanding of business needs.
  • Support talent plans to attract, develop, and retain talent.

Coaching & Guidance
  • Coach people managers through the HR processes, helping them navigate complex situations and implement the right strategies to support their teams.
  • Use empathy and emotional intelligence to provide precise, holistic guidance.
  • Coach people managers on culture strategies to drive inclusion, diversity, equity, and engagement.
  • Provide consulting to build a culture of performance through empathetic coaching.
  • Coach people managers on talent decisions to accelerate talent potential using technology-focused solutions.
  • Demonstrate inclusive behaviors and support initiatives to enhance inclusion and engagement.

Employee Relations Support
  • Partner with ELR or ER Ops to support non-complex employee relations cases, ensuring fair and consistent handling.

Workday Job Description:
  • Provides centralized human resource administration and support across a variety of processes and programs including Global Rewards, Global Talent & Leadership Development, Global HR Operations and Employee Relations.
  • Collaborates across the Human Resources function to establish operational standards and procedures that are leveraged to respond to employee and manager questions, ensures transactions are processed accurately and human resource programs and processes are administered effectively and efficiently.
  • Leads & participates in internal and cross-functional initiatives related to continuous process and quality improvement initiatives (such as Lean or Six Sigma).
  • Identifies customer-impacting issues and implement solutions and process improvements to increase customer experiences.
  • Ensures streamlined human processes, workflows, metrics, and system optimization.
  • Helps to define requirements for systems that will facilitate increased efficiencies, automation and/or self-service for various HR processes.
  • May also create test plans, lead testing cycles, and configure systems.
  • Provides segmented professional support to VPs and managers or employees during moments that matters with the ability to emphasize with the customer and apply discretion where needed in interactions with customers.
  • Functional Skills: HR Program Administration, HR Policies, Human Resources Information Systems, Data Analysis, Knowledge Management.
  • Additional Skills: Problem Solving, Detail Oriented, Cross-Functional, Collaboration, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Communication.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Requires 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree or 12+ years of experience with a high school diploma or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Proven expertise in providing HR functional support within a manufacturing environment.
  • Broad HR knowledge across multiple disciplines (e.g., employee relations, talent development, compensation, and organizational design).
  • Proven experience in coaching and supporting people managers.
  • Strong business acumen and strategic thinking abilities.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to build trusting relationships and influence leaders.
  • Commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
  • Experience thriving in diverse, fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.

Physical Job Requirements

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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.

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

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity hereSeniority level
  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Employment typeFull-time
Job function
  • Job functionEducation and Training
  • IndustriesMedical Equipment Manufacturing, Hospitals and Health Care, and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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