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

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.

As a Principal HR Generalist supporting the Diabetes Operating Unit, you will act as a trusted partner and advisor, helping shape a high-performance culture that supports the mission of delivering innovative solutions to transform diabetes care. You will drive key HR initiatives, ensure policy alignment, and provide support across talent strategy, performance management, employee engagement, and organizational development.
This role is ideal for an HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment and is passionate about enabling people and teams to reach their full potential

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

• Designs, implements and executes human resources strategies for business unit and functional groups.
• Partners with business operations to ensure a complete understanding of business needs and objective and proactively resolves HR and business issues.
• Provides solutions through organizational effectiveness and employee life cycle management.
• Anticipates and plans for long-term human resource needs and trends in partnership with business management.
• Responsible for and/or serves as a HR liaison in key projects.
• Monitor and analyze HR metrics and trends to drive data driven strategic decisions and improve people operations
• Lead or support enterprise-wide programs and change management initiatives.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

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

Nice to Have

• MBA or master’s in human resources
• HR certification (e.g., PHR, SHRM) is a plus
• Strong knowledge of labor law and HR compliance
• Exceptional interpersonal, coaching, and influence skills
• Experience with Workday and advanced analytics platforms
• Bilingual fluency (Spanish and English)

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.