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Principal HR Business Partner

Medtronic

Medtronic

People & HR
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Posted on May 19, 2025

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

We look for leaders who have a clear vision of where we are going and how to get there, bold inclusive thinkers who create new ideas and bring our best solutions forward to benefit our patients, business partners, and customers.


The Principal HR Business Partner is responsible to develop people strategy in alignment with Vietnam Leadership team. This role will help to translate strategy into relevant people related actions, assesses and anticipates HR-related needs. Works closely with the CoE’s to deliver value-added services to the leadership. The HR Business Partner would be an integral member of devising short- and medium-term plans, its culture and future road map.

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

Connecting Business and Talent Strategy

  • Actively participates with Vietnam leadership in strategy development and operational planning

  • Establish strong partnering relationships across assigned functions to enable business outcomes

  • Maintain an “outside-in” perspective to leverage current industry and Medtronic best practices and insights in support of talent strategies

Leading Organizational Design Initiatives

  • Design strategic initiatives to ensure organizational effectiveness, with specific focus on team effectiveness and functional operational efficiency

  • Partner with management to assess organizational capabilities in alignment with business strategy

  • Ensure effective organization structure, design, and staffing models

  • Assess and facilitate organization design and leadership changes

Enabling Leadership Effectiveness

  • Influence business outcomes through credible and authentic relationships with leaders and colleagues

  • Counsel leaders in alignment with Medtronic policies/practices, legal considerations, and company priorities—advocating both company and employee concerns

  • Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders giving effective feedback, performance coaching, and development advice in support of their leadership effectiveness

Creating an aligned and Cohesive HR experience for Clients

  • Talent Management - Partner to implement regular talent and organizational reviews, career development planning, performance management, workforce planning, and org health.

  • Talent Acquisition – Partner to identify key functional and leadership talent to strengthen the talent pipeline and increase organizational diversity.

  • Total Rewards - Partner to effectively implement and communicate Medtronic compensation and benefits programs to successfully attract, motivate and retain employees.

  • Employee Relations - Lead, identify and facilitate resolution of ER issues with the support from regional ER team

  • Inclusion and Diversity - Drive progress toward GIDE aspirations and ensure diversity of talent.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

  • Degree in Human Resources Management, Organization Development or Business is strongly preferred

  • English proficiency is essential

  • Industry experience – MNC/Commercial organization experience is preferred.

  • Experience in driving Performance management and Organizational Change

  • Strong problem solving/analysis skills

  • Project management experience

  • Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders’ relationships across a matrix organization (across-functions, countries & businesses), effective matrix skills

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.

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 here