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Head of HR, Global Supply Chain - Shockwave

Johnson & Johnson
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Nov 2025
💰 $297,850/yr($172,000/yr$297,850/yr)

About the role

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Human Resources

Job Sub Function:

HR Business Partners

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for Head of Human Resources Global Supply Chain, Shockwave, based in Santa Clara, CA.

As the Business Unit Head of HR, you will provide strategic HR partnership to the global Supply Chain leadership team of Shockwave located in Santa Clara and Costa Rica, contribute to shaping business strategy, and drive aligned outcomes in these focus areas:  

  • Leverage internal and external insights to diagnose and design organizations optimized to achieve strategic goals
  • Design and deploy data-driven talent strategies that curate the talent and capabilities required to deliver
  • Shape and steward our culture and employee experiences that will attract, inspire, and retain top talent
  • Accelerate performance through leadership coaching and team effectiveness
  • Partner across our OneHR model to deliver on talent and organizational strategies
  • Lead a team of BUHR leaders in both Santa Clara and Costa Rica

Core Responsibilities

Business strategy

  • Fluent in key business strategies (even outside of people topics), as well as external market competitive landscape
  • Represent OneHR and provide strategic input on business strategy
  • Understand what the business needs (through diagnosis, analysis, data), including organizational health, and what the function must bring to meet those needs, leveraging the breadth of the OneHR model
  • Partner with the business on how to ensure organization is optimally set up to deliver on business strategy inclusive of annual business planning and long-range financial planning (e.g., workforce planning)
  • Support and lead the continuous integration of Shockwave into J&J both in Santa Clara as well as Costa Rica

Talent strategy and management

  • Identify and diagnose talent needs of the business through strong business and analytical acumen and effective analysis
  • Create and deploy talent strategy to attract, develop, reward, and retain talent, including robust succession-planned pipeline and critical capability building (e.g., digital)
  • Own and drive talent management for the business/function/geography; set and action priorities, develop talent talk rhythm aligned to global calendar; inclusive of alignment on talent pools and measurement of progress via talent metrics (e.g., retention, movement)
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition to define strategy to source and acquire talent in critical capability areas
  • Lead succession planning for EC/GOC critical business/function roles, as appropriate; assess pipeline strength and develop plans to strengthen as needed
  • Partner across OneHR model to assess current state and enhance capability through buy/build/borrow strategy in partnership with Talent Acquisition/Access and J&J Learn

Culture and engagement

  • Partner with business leaders to shape culture and employee engagement strategies guided by Our Credo survey insights, employee sentiment, attrition and exit survey insights, predictive retention modeling, etc.
  • Identify, define, and help build key mindsets/behaviors for the business in partnership with business leaders
  • Drive culture of Our Credo, growth, collaboration, and inclusion within teams
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  • Leadership coaching and effectiveness
  • Develop trusted partnerships and coaching relationships with leaders and teams to build leadership capabilities and enhance leader impact
  • Partner with business leaders on team effectiveness program options and identification of facilitators
  • Ensure meaningful engagement, development, energy, and effective performance of team

Qualifications

  • Ensure meaningful engagement, development, energy, and effective performance of team
  • Years of experience
  • 8+ years’ professional experience, including managerial experience coa

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