LivaNova has approximately 2,900 employees worldwide, representing more than 70 nationalities and located in 31 countries. These employees are crucial in achieving the Company’s mission to provide hope to its patients and their families. LivaNova encourages its employees to live by LivaNova’s five core values: patients first, meaningful innovation, act with agility, commitment to quality and integrity, and collaborative culture. The Company measures its success by these values, using them as a foundation for achieving organizational growth and excellence.
People
Cultivating Talent to Meet Patient Needs
What We Are Doing
Talent
Our People Commitments
Compensation and Benefits
Training, Development & Leadership
Health and Safety
Talent
Recruitment
The Company is constantly looking to attract and recruit talented professionals who share LivaNova’s values. Furthermore, LivaNova recognizes the value in fostering an inclusive work environment and strives to provide a workplace free of harassment or discrimination. LivaNova’s recruitment strategy begins with creating new ways to identify extraordinary talent. Examples of the Company’s efforts include networking with universities, posting job listings on diverse sites, ensuring interview slates and panels include people having varied (or diverse) experiences and backgrounds, and training interviewers on how to conduct a fair, unbiased interview process.
Onboarding
All employees undergo a robust onboarding program, and at any time, employees have access to the LivaNova University, offering mandatory and on-demand content, covering ethics and integrity, quality, product, and other key topics and functions in the organization. Newly hired Operators are onboarded and trained per requirements and processes specific to their jurisdiction and the product that is manufactured in their locations. Thereafter, they receive ongoing technical training to ensure they maintain excellent standards for production and manufacturing. As part of the commitment to continuous feedback, HR requests feedback through an Onboarding Survey.
LivaNova’s People Commitments
Listening to the Employee Voice
LivaNova seeks to foster a culture of continuous understanding and transparency, where open and direct communication is valued. Accordingly, LivaNova regularly conducts employee engagement surveys, called LivaNova4You, to measure overall employment engagement and satisfaction and to provide the Company with actionable data for potential improvement opportunities. Over 90% of employees completed the 2024 LivaNova4YOU engagement survey which encompassed questions relating to health and wellness, employment engagement, transformation and change, and overall culture within the Company. Based on the results of the survey, leaders within the Company are working with their teams to enhance communications and workload, collaboration around the organization, deeper focus on change management strategies, and increased development and career growth opportunities.
Employee Experience & Talent Reputation
LivaNova’s people are proud to do work that matters, at a place we want to be. This statement is at the center of our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), designed by employee focus groups, with the goal to reflect and unify the Company’s culture. In recruitment the EVP helps attract talent: Prospective employees are drawn to the Company’s principles 'powerfully committed,' 'proudly united,' and 'passionately focused.' Each year talent acquisition teams, business leaders, and ambassadors meet hundreds of people at in-person recruitment events and advocate for LivaNova as a place to work. A deeper connection between employee and the Company is nurtured with EVP communications on learning and talent development, recognition and reward, onboarding, news, and awards.An Innovative Culture
Innovation is a key component to LivaNova’s working culture and core values. Delivering impactful innovation on a consistent and regular cadence is critical for LivaNova’s future success and is rooted in a having a deep understanding of patients’ and customers’ unmet needs. LivaNova strives to create a workplace environment where creativity and the pursuit of new ideas are actively encouraged and embraced, fostering a collective mindset that values, supports, and prioritizes innovation across all levels of an organization.
Compensation and Benefits
To meet the needs of LivaNova’s patients and customers, the Company strives to attract, retain, develop, and reward exceptional talent. LivaNova’s proactive talent acquisition strategies, competitive compensation and benefits, collaborative and rewarding work environment, leadership development programs, and professional training opportunities have been a significant driver of LivaNova’s success. In addition to base pay, LivaNova’s rewards, compensation, and benefits programs may include, depending on jurisdiction, annual performance bonuses, stock awards, pensions, health and well-being programs, paid time off and parental leave, financial assistance for education-related purposes, flexible schedules, hybrid and remote working, employee stock purchase plans, and employee rewards programs, among others.
Training, Development, and Leadership
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Performance Management
LivaNova’s annual performance management process is designed to build employee skills and capabilities and develop and retain enterprise leaders for the future. The process includes training to increase the quality of employee/manager talent review discussions and employee performance calibrations among leaders to drive consistency. All employees, which include full-time and part-time employees, start the year creating performance-aligned goals which are reviewed with their managers at both mid-year and year-end performance evaluation reviews.
Leadership Development and Professional Training
Developing and retaining enterprise leaders is a key factor to LivaNova’s success. The annual talent review process engages employees to establish development plans and understand their skills and capabilities, while managers assess employee potential, create succession plans, and identify career path opportunities.
The LivaNova Leadership Academy, launched in 2023, is a program that promotes development through three different learning forums - Manager Fundamentals, Emerging Leaders, and Advanced Leadership - to accelerate the development and succession readiness for employees chosen for the program. LivaNova also supports the continuing education of its employees externally. In the U.S. and internationally, eligible employees can access financial aid through education reimbursement programs for approved courses and certifications completed independently. Additionally, LivaNova offers internships and apprenticeships across functions around the globe, in partnership with universities and institutions, which may lead to full-time employment with the Company.
Health and Safety
LivaNova is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all employees. The Company relies on environmental, health and safety management systems as well as managers and Health & Safety specialists. They oversee health and safety at their respective sites and create awareness that foster a safe workplace culture.In addition, all employees have access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential and professional assistance to employees who are dealing with personal or work-related mental health-related problems. In the U.S., the EAP includes Mental Health and Substance Abuse services. The Company has also trained Mental Health First Aiders offering on-the-ground support and guidance.
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