Job Opportunities Organizational Design Manager

Job Overview

The Organizational Design Program Manager plays a key role in helping the organization solve complex business challenges through thoughtful disciplined organizational design and effectiveness practices. The role partners closely with business leaders and People Team colleagues to design organizational structures operating models and set accountabilities that enable Wawanesa to be futureready collaborative and strategically aligned.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and support endtoend organizational design initiatives from problem definition and diagnosis through design leadership approval implementation and postimplementation review.
• Partner with business leaders and HRBP colleagues to translate strategy into effective organizational structures roles decision rights operating models and governance mechanisms.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders reframing restructuring and operating model requests into evidencebased organizational design solutions aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Manage the organizational design roadmap and portfolio including intake prioritization sequencing dependencies risks and delivery timelines.
• Own organizational design project plans; track workstreams and interdependencies; proactively manage risks; and provide clear status reporting to senior leaders.
• Develop and evaluate organizational design options using agreed design principles workforce analytics financial insights and external benchmarks and best practices.
• Create and maintain workforce analytics tools and frameworks to support ongoing organizational design analysis and recommendations.
• Assess the people cost and operational impacts of design decisions and support related business cases recommendations and tradeoff discussions.
• Establish and track organizational design outcome metrics and scorecards) to evaluate effectiveness and support continuous improvement.
• Contribute to enterprisewide career frameworks role architecture and competency models in partnership with Talent Management and Total Rewards.
• Facilitate leadership design sessions and working forums to evaluate design options against agreed criteria and align stakeholders on decisions and implementation approaches.
• Prepare clear concise executiveready materials for decisionmaking including design summaries presentations dashboards and progress updates.
• Partner with HR Business Partners and Change & Communications colleagues to support effective implementation adoption and sustainment of organizational changes.
• Develop and deliver practical learning tools and coaching sessions that build OD capability in leaders and HR partners enabling them to proactively identify structural opportunities and apply enterprise aligned organization design methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Human Resources Organizational Psychology or a related field required; Masters degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of experience in organizational design organizational effectiveness management consulting enterprise transformation or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprisescale organizational design initiatives in midtolarge organizations.
• Exposure to enterprise transformation initiatives (e.g. digital modernization operating model change acquisitions/divestures cost or simplification programs).
• Proven ability to operate as a senior consultantstyle individual contributor influencing leaders and driving outcomes without formal authority.
• Experience working in insurance financial services or other regulated environments is an asset.
• Strong business and financial acumen analytical and systemsthinking skills and excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

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