Group Vice President, People Services

Posting Date

05/19/2026

225 E Germann RdSte 150, Gilbert, Arizona, 85297-2909, United States of America

Group Vice President, Talent Strategy

About DaVita

Our Purpose: To be the provider, partner, and employer of choice in kidney care, while striving to improve the health, healthcare, and quality of life for patients globally.

Our Strategy: Our strategy revolves around providing industry-leading kidney care, fostering a positive work environment, and demonstrating environmental stewardship.

Our Culture: Known as "The DaVita Way," our culture is characterized by a strong sense of community, fun, and a commitment to our core values. It emphasizes teamwork, personal growth, and a belief in making a positive impact on patients' lives and the broader community.

Operating Model: We operate with an operator-led culture where decision-making is heavily influenced by field and ops leaders. We embrace a bold, “launch and learn” mindset, often bringing ideas to market before achieving full clarity. In our environment, where change can sometimes be slow given high expectations for fast results, the ability to build strong coalitions is key to success.

The Role

The Group Vice President, Talent Strategy will lead a newly integrated organization that brings together multiple critical components. You will lead the Talent & Culture team, encompassing Talent Management, Learning & Development, and Culture & Belonging.

Core Jobs To Be Done

• Talent Management: Oversee and enhance performance management, career pathing, and succession planning.
• Learning & Development: Drive leadership, core, and functional training initiatives.
• Organization Effectiveness: Focus on strategy, structure, team effectiveness, and change enablement.
• Culture & Belonging: Shape the systems, rituals, and leadership behaviors that sustain an inclusive, purpose-driven culture and deepen teammate connection to DaVita’s mission.
  
  

Experience & Expertise

• Broad Talent Leadership: Deep expertise across the Talent CoE, including Talent Management, Learning & Development, Organizational Effectiveness/Development, and Culture & Belonging. Ability to strategically and operationally oversee the end-to-end talent ecosystem.
• Frontline Employee Experience: Proven success operating in an organization with a large, hourly frontline employee population. Deep knowledge of their motivators, engagement, and retention strategies.
• Maturing the Talent Function: Demonstrated experience moving a Talent function along the maturity curve, consistently upleveling team performance.
• Low Margin / High Scale Operations: Understanding of how to architect talent strategies and solutions that drive performance for a large hourly workforce and scale efficiently without the use of massive teams or budgets.
• Business Transformation: Track record of leading the Talent function during a time of significant transformation and change.
• Operating Model Familiarity: Experience working with a multi-site footprint characterized by high operational complexity.
  
  

Leadership & Execution Skills

• Driving Transformation: Highly skilled in leading transformation initiatives across complex stakeholder landscapes, ensuring effective engagement and adoption.
• Leading and Maturing Teams: A capable leader who can engage, inspire, and develop teams to optimize integration and impact.
• Business & Data Acumen: Acts as a steward of the business through the lens of Talent. Considers commercial implications and leverages HR data analytics to inform decisions and drive performance against metrics.
• Leading & Influencing: Adept at leading through both influence and direct supervision.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to establish and maintain trusted relationships with peers, direct reports, and senior executives to ensure seamless coordination.
  
  

Attributes

• Direct & Respectful: Addresses conflict head-on with respect and candor; delivers tough messages directly.
• Collaborative: Team-oriented and proactive in building a wide set of relationships.
• Hands-On: Directly contributes to delivering outcomes through individual and collective accountability.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrates superior learning agility and intellectual curiosity; connects vision to purpose.
• Drive for Results: Possesses strong operational DNA and a deep understanding of what enables sustainable results.
• Inclusive Behavior: Creates a culture of collaboration, engagement, and high-performance.
• Positivity & Humility: Unifies the organization through positive intent, respect, openness, care, and humility. Brings a low ego and a good sense of humor.
  
  

Qualifications

• 15 years of progressive leadership experience spanning the Talent Center of Excellence (Talent Management, Learning & Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Culture & Belonging), with a track record of executive-level impact.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, HR, Business, or related field) strongly preferred.
• Proven track record operating in large-scale, multi-site organizations with significant frontline, hourly employee populations and high operational complexity.
• Demonstrated success leading commercially-driven people functions focused on enabling tangible business outcomes and scaling efficiently without massive budgets.
• Deep expertise leveraging HR data analytics to inform talent decisions and drive performance against metrics.
• Experience designing and implementing modern, scalable, and integrated talent systems (performance management, succession planning, capability building).
• Successful track record of leading talent functions during periods of significant business transformation and structural change.
• Highly collaborative with a strong ability to build trust, coalitions, and influence cross-functionally at both the C-suite and frontline levels.
• Comfortable addressing conflict head-on with respect, candor, and directness.
• Hands-on and proactive approach to delivering outcomes.
  
  

Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:

• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter.
• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
• A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future.
• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.
  
  

Join us as we pursue our vision "To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen."

Why wait? Explore a career with DaVita today.

Go to http://careers.davita.com to learn more or apply.

What We’ll Provide

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
  
  

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $250,000.00 - $375,000.00/year.

If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position.

New York Exempt: New York City and Long Island: $66,300.00/year, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $66,300.00/year, Remainder of New York state: $62,353.20/year New York Non-exempt: New York City and Long Island: $17.00/hour, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $17.00/hour, Remainder of New York state: $16.00/hour

Washington Exempt: $80,168.40/year Washington Non-exempt: Bellingham: $19.13/hour, Burien: $21.63/hour, Everette: $20.77/hour, Unincorporated King County: $20.82/hour, Renton: $21.57/hour, Seattle: $21.30/hour, Tukwila: $21.65/hour, Remainder of Washington state: $17.13/hour

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

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