Global Leave of Absence & Accommodations Leader - Remote

Global Leave of Absence & Accommodations Leader

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, is at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

As the Global Leave of Absence & Accommodations Leader, you will provide global leadership for the delivery, governance, and continuous improvement of Solventum’s Leave of Absence and Workplace Accommodations operations. Partnering closely with Total Rewards, which owns the overall program strategy and policy direction, you will be accountable for the global operating model, process strategy, operational excellence, service delivery, vendor governance, employee experience, and global team leadership across legally mandated leave and accommodation programs.

Vacation, Paid Time Off, Holidays, Bereavement Leave, and Paid Sick Time are outside the scope of this role. You will partner with stakeholders across Total Rewards, HR, Legal, Payroll, HRIS, Employee Relations, Occupational Health, Compliance, and business leadership while overseeing a strategic external leave administration partner responsible for day-to-day case management. This role is responsible for translating program strategy into scalable, compliant, and employee-centered service delivery across regions, ensuring clear accountability, consistent execution, and measurable outcomes for employees, managers, internal stakeholders, and external partners.

• Leading Solventum’s global Leave of Absence and Workplace Accommodations process strategy, governance, end-to-end operating model, and long-term roadmap to deliver consistent, compliant, and scalable employee experience across regions.
• Driving the evolution of the global Leave of Absence and Accommodations service model by establishing service delivery standards, streamlining and modernizing ways of working, and balancing enterprise consistency with country-specific statutory, regulatory, and works council requirements.
• Partnering across Total Rewards, HR, Legal, Employee Relations, Payroll, Occupational Health, HRIS, Compliance, and business leaders to ensure seamless delivery of leave and accommodation programs and clear accountability across the global operating model.
• Serving as the strategic relationship owner for the outsourced Leave Administration partner, driving vendor performance and accountability through governance oversight, SLA management, service improvement initiatives, compliance, escalations, audit readiness, and ongoing optimization of operational and employee experience outcomes.
• Driving vendor governance through Quarterly Business Reviews, vendor scorecards, remediation planning, SLA performance reviews, and continuous service improvement to ensure measurable service outcomes and strong external partner accountability.
• Championing an employee-centered leave and accommodations experience by applying service design and employee journey principles to simplify processes, improve communications, strengthen manager and employee education, enhance accessibility, support return-to-work, and embed service excellence standards across internal teams and external partners.
• Owning and governing global process…