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The People and Culture Lead for NexGen Orthopedic Health and Wellness is a defining leadership role — one that shapes the future of a growing, high-impact healthcare organization. It presents a unique opportunity to define and drive sustainable expansion for an already successful practice by aligning people strategy with business strategy and outcomes.

Our new People and Culture Lead will serve as a trusted advisor to the interim executive leadership team, shaping organizational strategy aligned with business strategy through a people lens, responsible for transforming vision into reality across a multi-site, multi-specialty enterprise that includes an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). This leader will report to the interim executive leadership team.

This critical role leads strategic and expansive culture initiatives at NexGen Orthopedic Health and Wellness and is responsible for the strategic development and execution of operational plans to advance NexGen’s People and Culture vision and priorities. This role requires a deep understanding of organizational culture, transformation/change management, and systems-building excellence.

The successful candidate will be responsible for building scalable systems, fostering a high-performance culture, and ensuring we continue to attract and grow extraordinary talent as the company scales.

This is a unique opportunity for a mission-driven leader who thrives in growing fast-paced environments and is passionate about building exceptional teams and organizational systems in a growing multi-site medical health and wellness practice, inclusive of building and leading the talent acquisition function and developing performance management for a diverse specialized workforce.

The ideal candidate is both strategic and analytical, with demonstrated success translating capability, engagement, talent, and organizational data into clear insights and executive-ready narratives that inform decision-making and drive action.

This role will be based in our Paramus New Jersey office. The successful candidate must be willing to work in the office 5 days per week.

Compensation Transparency:

NexGen Orthopedic Health and Wellness intends to attract a best-in-class HR executive to serve as People and Culture Lead.

Actual base salary will depend on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for the successful candidate. Other rewards may/will include annual bonus, health insurance coverage, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

Base compensation range for this position is $110,000 - $150,000. This role is eligible for additional bonus incentives for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

Strategic Partner to the Interim Executive Leadership Team:

· Serve as a trusted advisor to the Interim Executive Leadership Team, shaping organizational strategy aligned with business strategy through a people lens.

· Advise, develop, and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy of the company to steward transformation / organizational change with care and clarity.
 

Change Management and Operational Execution

• Implement organizational change efforts, managing resistance and driving the adoption of new cultural initiatives, processes, and behaviors

Culture Strategy and NexGen Cohesion: Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

• Execute comprehensive culture strategies and operational plans that align with NexGen’s business objectives / long-term goals
• Champion an inclusive, values-driven workplace culture, embedding equity and belonging into all culture strategies and initiatives
• Strengthen shared cultural norms, behaviors and connection points that support a unified employee experience across all sites ensuring a cohesive, high-performing culture
• Create and lead initiatives that strengthen belonging, leadership capability, and team effectiveness, including success metrics to track measurable impact

• Leverage engagement data to identify opportunities and inform initiatives, and translate insights into practical action plans

• Adapt strategies to meet the needs of a dynamic, evolving organization

Learning, Leadership Development, and Culture Programming

• Manage NexGen’s learning and development efforts, including manager training, creating onboard learning experiences and career pathways
• Ensure learning programs build organizational capacity, improve effectiveness and support collaboration across teams and sites
• Develop scalable systems and repeatable initiatives that strengthen belonging, trust and alignment across NexGen

Leadership and Partnership

• Partner closely with Talent Acquisition leadership to ensure culture and learning efforts are aligned with broader employee experience programming
• Collaborate with leadership to support a positive, engaging workplace environment

Employee Relations

· Proactively identify organizational risks and implement systems and decision flow to ensure issues are proactively addressed and don't cycle back to leadership

• Ensure compliance with employment law, lead employee relations practices, and maintain consistent policies and proactive risk mitigation across NJ and NY sites and implement systems to proactively mitigate organizational risk

· Implement, document and monitor HR policies and procedures of the organization by way of systems that will improve the overall operation and effectiveness of the organization

· Ensure HR procedures and protocols are in place, including strong documentation, recordkeeping, consistent processes, and firm adherence to policy

· Navigate complex and sensitive employee matters in partnership with the Executive Leadership Team.

· Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives that improve how the organization operates—from talent systems to leadership practices

Experience / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree desirable
• 5 to 10 years of progressive experience in People/HR roles, with 5+ years leading Culture, Inclusion and/or Learning and Development in a growth environment
• Healthcare, hospitality and service industry experience is highly desirable
• A hands-on, builder mindset with the ability to operate strategically while diving into details when needed

· Tactful, self-motivated, productive, and detail-oriented people strategist with deep insight into planning, organizing, and controlling the activities and actions of the human resource team, along with excellent skills in revising and recommending people policies and procedures

• Strong analytical and metrics-driven mindset, with experience building dashboards, defining KPIs, and making data-informed decisions

· Strong data fluency and exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to translate people insights into clear recommendations that drive alignment and action across the organization

• Healthcare, pharma, biotech, or other highly regulated industry experience strongly preferred

· Fluent in change management and systems thinking with demonstrated ability to connect dots across teams and sites; anticipate second-order impacts; and lead complex organizational change

• Strong influencing skills and experience partnering with executive leaders.
• A passion for NexGen’s mission and a commitment to creating an environment where team members can do the best work of their careers

Leadership Attributes

• Roll-up your sleeves and get it done mindset
• Servant leadership and culture stewardship to inspire engagement and accountability
• Strategic and forward-thinking with growth and transformation perspective
• Strong executive presence and communication capabilities
• Effective change leader in complex environments
• Strong ability to prioritize and drive team and organizational alignment
• Inclusive, collaborative, and relationship-oriented
• Able to balance enterprise thinking with practical execution