Senior Director, HR Strategy & Organizational Effectiveness

Serving the needs of all families with young childrenCarters Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children encompassing Carters OshKosh Bgosh Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work constant learning genuine people and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carters.

HOW YOULL MAKE AN IMPACT:

The Senior Director HR Strategy & Organization Effectiveness is a senior enterprise HR leader responsible for shaping and driving the organizations HR strategy leading large-scale transformation initiatives and advancing organizational effectiveness across the business. This role partners closely with executives to align people strategies with business objectives ensuring the organization is structured enabled and equipped to deliver sustained performance and leader acts as a thought partner to senior executives translates business strategy into people solutions and ensures talent systems leadership capabilities and organizational models drive performance engagement and growth.

This role reports to the Chief Administrative and Compliance Officer and is based in our headquarters in Atlanta GA.

HR Strategy & Enterprise Integration 25%

• Lead the development and execution of multi-year enterprise HR strategy aligning to business priorities growth agenda and organizational transformation
• Translate strategy into a clear HR roadmap balancing nearterm business needs with longterm talent sustainability.
• Partner closely with HR COEs and HR Business Partners to ensure consistent execution of strategic priorities.
• Ensure HR strategies are measurable outcomefocused and continuously improved.

Organizational Design & Effectiveness -- 25%

• Lead organizational design and effectiveness efforts to ensure the companys structure operating models roles and decision rights support strategy and growth.
• Partner with HR and business leaders on workforce planning role clarity span of control and organization reviews.
• Guide HR leaders through change initiatives transformations and integrations with a focus on clarity simplicity and performance.
• Develop and apply frameworks tools and principles to support consistent scalable organizational design decisions.
• Ensure organization design choices reinforce culture values and ways of working.

HR Transformation & Change Leadership 25%

• Lead enterprise-wide HR transformation initiatives including operating model redesign process optimization and digital HR enablement through future-ready organizational design options.
• Assist in development and implementation of change management strategies to support large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Establish governance structures and program management discipline for change management and transformation efforts.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence 25%

• Build strong relationships with executive leaders HR leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Influence and challenge senior stakeholders to adopt best practices in organizational design and transformation.
• Act as a thought leader internally and externally on HR strategy and organizational effectiveness.

WED LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:

Must have:

• Bachelors degree required; Masters degree (MBA HR Organizational Development or related field) preferred.
• 1215 years of progressive HR experience with significant focus on HR strategy transformation and organization effectiveness.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives in complex matrixed organizations.
• Proven track record of partnering with executive leadership and influencing strategic decisions.
• Demonstrated success partnering with HR and executive leaders on talent organization and workforce decisions.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Experience in large multisite or consumerfacing organizations (retail distribution manufacturing or corporate environments).
• Expertise in change management organizational effectiveness and leadership development.
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills to translate data into insights and decisions.
• High emotional intelligence executive presence and influencing capability.
• Passion for building inclusive highperformance cultures.

Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law.