Senior HRBP (Tokyo)

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

＜Position Title＞ Senior HRBP (Tokyo)

＜Working Location＞ Shinagawa HQ

＜Main Responsibilities＞

This position will report to HR leader Japan & ANZ enabling our talent strategies across Japan. This position will be a critical role in Japan HR leadership team partnering with our CoE leads and providing coaching / mentoring to our wider Japan HR community. This position will provide HR strategic partnership to senior leaders across our commercial business in Japan.

Your Responsibilities Include The Following:

• 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.

＜Must Haves＞

Job Experience

• Broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in one department.
• Prior experience supporting teams in the medical technology, medical devices, biotech, or pharmaceutical industry strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and familiarity with HR practices in a regulated environment (FDA, ISO, or equivalent).
• Proven success influencing and partnering with senior leaders in a complex, global, and highly technical organization.
• Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence to implement compensation, benefits, learning, and talent development programs tailored to the medtech workforce.
• Act as a change champion for organizational initiatives, including culture-building, engagement, and transformation projects.
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion to ensure an inclusive, high-performance environment.
• Experience in organizational design, talent management, leadership development, and change management.

Skill / Knowledge

• Proficient English both spoken and written.
• 8–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 3–5 years in a senior HRBP or equivalent role.

Competency·

• Strong business acumen and ability to align HR strategy with business needs in a science- and technology driven environment.
• Exceptional communication, coaching, and influencing skills with the ability to partner effectively at all levels.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to use analytics to inform decision-making.
• High emotional intelligence, discretion, and ethical judgment.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and balance strategic priorities with hands-on problem-solving.

Education

• Bachelor Degree preferrable HRM; Org Dev; Business Management.

＜Working Style＞

This role requires commuting to the office approximately 2~3 times a week.

Benefits

At Medtronic, we believe that the success of the company and the growth of our employees go hand in hand. We offer comprehensive benefits and compensation programs designed to enhance the financial, physical, and mental well-being of each employee.

• Up to 360,000 yen per year in childcare subsidies
• Six weeks of leave for family members who require nursing care or for adoption
• Babysitter and nursery school matching services
• Career development, including mentor programs and e-learning
• Internal career network to support women's advancement
• Employee stock purchase program etc.
• Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, holiday work allowance, etc.
• Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, etc.
• Annual paid leave, sick leave, menstrual leave, maternity leave, etc.
• 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

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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