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We are looking for a talented Organization Effectiveness Director to join our Talent Development team. This position offers a remote work arrangement for candidates residing in the United States.

The Organization Effectiveness (OE) Director serves as the enterprise subject matter expert for Organization Effectiveness, Organization Design, Operating Models, and Workforce Strategy. This individual will establish OE methodologies, lead complex organizational transformation initiatives, provide strategic consulting to senior leaders and HRBPs, and drive measurable improvements in organizational performance and business execution. The role requires deep expertise in organizational diagnostics, design, change leadership, and executive facilitation within complex global organizations.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways: 

• Partner with senior business and HR leaders to shape the future of the organization. You will serve as a trusted advisor, helping leaders assess organizational challenges, uncover opportunities, and develop strategies that improve organizational performance, workforce effectiveness, and business outcomes. Through thoughtful consultation and executive coaching, you will help leaders navigate complex change while aligning talent, structure, and capabilities to strategic objectives.
• Advance enterprise-wide organizational effectiveness capabilities. By identifying capability gaps and designing targeted development strategies, you will strengthen the organization's ability to lead transformation, manage change, and build high-performing teams. Your work will elevate organizational effectiveness knowledge and practices across HR and the broader business.
• Develop and lead a high-performing organizational effectiveness team. You will provide leadership, coaching, and development that enables the team to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions and measurable business impact. Through mentoring and capability building, you will create a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning that scales organizational effectiveness across the enterprise.
• Drive alignment between people strategy and business strategy. Working as part of the One HR team, you will collaborate across functions and geographies to ensure organizational effectiveness initiatives support enterprise priorities. Your ability to balance competing needs while maintaining focus on long-term strategic goals will help drive greater organizational agility and shared accountability.
• Establish and evolve enterprise standards, frameworks, and infrastructure. You will shape the future of organizational effectiveness by designing and enhancing the policies, frameworks, tools, systems, and governance models that support sustainable business performance. Your leadership will ensure consistency, scalability, and effectiveness while adapting solutions to meet evolving organizational needs.
• Create measurable business value through data, analytics, and performance insights. Partnering with HR and enterprise PMOs, you will help build an integrated set of organizational effectiveness metrics that connect people initiatives to business outcomes. By leveraging analytics and evidence-based decision making, you will provide leaders with actionable insights that improve workforce performance and organizational health.
• Design innovative solutions that accelerate strategic transformation. You will develop and implement creative, value-based interventions that address complex organizational challenges and enable leaders to achieve their strategic goals. Drawing on external research, market trends, and leading practices, you will continuously evolve organizational effectiveness approaches to deliver meaningful and sustainable results.
• Champion technology-enabled organizational effectiveness. By leveraging digital tools, analytics platforms, and emerging technologies, you will enhance the application, adoption, measurement, and user experience of organizational effectiveness solutions. Your focus on innovation will improve efficiency, increase impact, and enable more informed decision making across the enterprise.
• Lead the continuous improvement of HR and organizational effectiveness practices. Through external benchmarking, industry research, strategic partnerships, and cross-functional collaboration, you will identify opportunities to enhance how HR supports the business. Your leadership will help ensure enterprise initiatives are seamlessly executed, integrated across functions, and positioned to strengthen culture, engagement, and long-term organizational success.

Education/Experience

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field or equivalent experience required.
• Prosci Change Management Certification, Organization Design Certification (e.g., Korn Ferry, Deloitte, Mercer, Future State, OrgVue), Strategic Workforce Planning Certification and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) - preferred

• Prior experience in a Big Four consulting environment is highly desirable.

• Organization Development Certification (ODCP or equivalent), Executive Coaching Certification (ICF), Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt, SHRM-SCP or HRCI SPHR/GPHR and/or Human Capital Strategy certifications - strong differentiators 
• Proven experience working in global matrix organizations, complex multinational environments and success with shaping enterprise-wide transformation initiatives
• Demonstrated success engaging and influencing executive leadership teams

Compensation 

Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate's qualifications and experience, where appropriate.

To be successful in this role you will need the following: 

• Lead enterprise-wide organization design efforts that align structure to strategy. You will need a deep understanding of organization design principles, operating model design, and strategic workforce planning to help leaders create structures that enable business growth, improve accountability, and increase organizational effectiveness. Success requires balancing short-term business needs with long-term organizational sustainability while ensuring talent, capabilities, and resources are aligned to strategic priorities.

• Drive large-scale transformational change that delivers measurable business outcomes. Success in this role depends on your ability to apply structured change management methodologies to complex organizational initiatives. You must guide leaders and employees through change, anticipate resistance, build adoption strategies, and ensure transformations achieve intended results while minimizing disruption to the business and employee experience.

• Leverage workforce analytics and data-driven insights to shape decisions. Strong analytical capabilities are essential for identifying organizational challenges, diagnosing root causes, and recommending solutions. You will need to interpret workforce data, organizational metrics, and business trends to provide actionable insights that influence leadership decisions and support strategic workforce planning efforts.

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to HRBP's and senior leaders. Building credibility and trust across the organization is critical. You will partner with executives and HR leaders to assess organizational effectiveness, navigate complex talent and workforce issues, and provide practical recommendations that balance employee needs with business objectives. Your ability to influence without direct authority will be a key differentiator.

• Navigate complexity, ambiguity, and organizational dynamics with confidence. This role requires exceptional organizational savvy and sound judgment. You will regularly work through competing priorities, evolving strategies, and differing stakeholder perspectives. Successfully managing complexity means understanding political, cultural, and operational dynamics while helping leaders make informed decisions in uncertain environments.

• Facilitate alignment and collaboration across global stakeholders. You will need outstanding communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills to bring diverse groups together around common objectives. Success comes from your ability to engage leaders at all levels, foster productive dialogue, manage conflict constructively, and build consensus across businesses, functions, and geographic regions.

• Bring a global and future-focused perspective to organizational challenges. The ability to think strategically and anticipate future workforce and business requirements is essential. You will need to understand external market trends, evolving workforce expectations, and organizational capabilities to design solutions that position the company for long-term success. Cultivating innovation and challenging traditional approaches will be critical to driving meaningful change.

• Demonstrate courageous, inclusive, and authentic leadership. Success requires the confidence to address difficult issues, challenge assumptions, and provide honest recommendations, even when those conversations are uncomfortable. At the same time, you must foster trust by valuing diverse perspectives, demonstrating self-awareness, acting with integrity, and creating an environment where employees and leaders feel heard, respected, and supported during periods of change.

Outcome, you must combine deep expertise in organization design, change management, workforce analytics, and HR consulting with strong executive influence, strategic thinking, global perspective, and the ability to lead organizations through complex transformation while building trust and alignment across stakeholders.