Business Optimization Specialist
Richmond, VA - USA
Job Summary
PDS 4 / Power Delivery Substation
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The Business Optimization Specialist partners with leaders across the enterprise to improve organizational effectiveness accelerate strategic initiative execution and optimize how work is performed across teams. This role combines organizational development expertise with enterprise-wide change enablement operating model improvement workforce capability development and organizational performance enhancement to help the organization achieve long-term business objectives.
The successful candidate will work across functional boundaries to align organizational structures governance workforce capabilities leadership practices and ways of working to support strategic priorities and operational excellence.
Core Functions of the Role
Organizational Effectiveness & Enterprise Alignment
- Assess organizational structures governance models and decision-making frameworks to improve organizational effectiveness.
- Partner with leaders to align organizational capabilities with strategic priorities.
- Facilitate the design and implementation of operating models that improve collaboration accountability and execution.
- Evaluate organizational barriers that impact performance and recommend sustainable solutions.
- Support restructuring role design and workforce alignment initiatives.
- Support a people-centered approach to transformation by addressing resistance enabling learning and sustaining new behaviors beyond implementation
Strategic Initiative Enablement
- Partner with executive and functional leaders to support implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Develop stakeholder engagement strategies to increase adoption of new processes technologies and business practices.
- Facilitate organization readiness assessments and implementation planning.
- Monitor adoption metrics and identify opportunities to improve outcomes and sustain results.
- Support large-scale organizational change efforts through structured planning and execution.
Organizational Performance Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve organizational efficiency effectiveness and workforce productivity.
- Conduct organizational diagnostics including health assessments workforce analysis and culture/readiness evaluations to identify root causes of performance challenges
- Collaborate with operational leaders to improve cross-functional processes and organizational workflows.
- Develop performance measurement approaches that link organizational outcomes to strategic objectives.
- Use data and analytics to identify trends risks and opportunities impacting organizational performance.
- Recommend actions that strengthen execution accountability and operational consistency.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Design and deliver leadership development strategies aligned with organizational objectives.
- Create workforce capability and competency frameworks that support future business needs.
- Facilitate leadership alignment sessions team effectiveness workshops and organizational planning activities.
- Facilitate prioritization and resource alignment to ensure focus on high-impact strategically aligned work
- Support succession planning and critical workforce readiness initiatives.
- Develop strategies to build organizational adaptability and resilience.
Standards Governance & Adoption
- Establish governance frameworks that support organizational consistency and effective decision-making.
- Partner with business leaders to standardize practices roles and responsibilities across organizations.
- Develop implementation and adoption plans for new organizational standards and methodologies.
- Support continuous improvement efforts by reinforcing sustainable organizational practices.
- Establish and monitor success metrics (KPIs) adoption measures and feedback loops to reinforce behavior change and continuous improvement
- Track and report on organizational performance adoption and effectiveness metrics.
Preferred Experience
Successful candidates should have experience in some or all of the following areas:
- Organizational Development
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Business Optimization
- Enterprise Change Management
- Operational Excellence
- Continuous Improvement
- Strategy Execution
- Organizational Design
- Workforce Planning
- Program Management
- Leadership Development
- Process Improvement
- Enterprise Portfolio Management
- Management Consulting
Candidate Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide initiatives with multiple stakeholder groups.
- Experience facilitating organizational assessments and translating findings into action plans.
- Experience improving governance operating models or organizational performance.
- Experience establishing organizational metrics and performance indicators.
- Ability to influence leaders without direct authority.
- Experience working in regulated or asset-intensive industries such as energy utilities engineering manufacturing or infrastructure.
This opportunity is for a hybrid work environment (home and office) and requires residing within the Richmond VA area.
At this time Mesa cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Mesa is a full-service, multi-discipline engineering, procurement, and construction management firm specializing in engineering and consulting services.