Senior Manager Organizational Development

Senior Manager Organizational Development

Job Category :
Human Resources

Requisition Number : SENIO
001058

• Posted :
  September 18, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

Showing 1 location

Chicago Innovation Center | In office CIC Employees
Chicago, IL 60607, USA

• Pay or shift range: $121,000 USD to $154,000 USD
  The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons. More information listed in job description.
• Travel Required :
  Yes

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager Organizational Development is responsible for designing and executing strategies that strengthen organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, employee experience, and business performance. This role serves as a strategic partner to senior leaders, HR colleagues, and cross-functional stakeholders, translating business priorities into practical, scalable solutions across organisational design, change management, leadership development, succession planning, talent management, team effectiveness, culture, and employee engagement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as a trusted organisational development advisor to executives, business leaders, and HR partners, applying a disciplined consulting approach to complex organisational and talent challenges.
• Provide executive coaching and organisational effectiveness consultation to senior leaders and leadership teams.
• Partner with senior leaders to assess organisational capabilities, structures, roles, governance, and ways of working, recommending solutions that improve accountability, decision-making, collaboration, and business performance.
• Lead and support the development of career frameworks, job architecture, capability models, and organisational structures that enable talent mobility and organisational scalability.
• Assess emerging workforce trends, technologies, and AI-enabled solutions to enhance organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, employee experience, and business performance.
• Lead organisational design and effectiveness initiatives by using business, talent, and employee data to identify capability gaps, organisational risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and execute change management strategies for enterprise and functional initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, change impact assessment, communications, capability building, adoption, and sustainment.
• Design and implement leadership and management development strategies that strengthen strategic thinking, coaching, accountability, change leadership, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead or support talent review, succession planning, and leadership pipeline processes, including the identification of critical roles, high-potential talent, readiness, development priorities, and succession risks.
• Partner with business leaders to strengthen performance management, career development, feedback, coaching, and employee growth practices.
• Lead employee listening and culture initiatives, analyse feedback and organisational trends, and coach leaders in developing focused, measurable action plans.
• Design and facilitate leadership team effectiveness sessions, strategy meetings, workshops, and working sessions that improve alignment, trust, role clarity, decision-making, and execution.
• Serve as a trusted organisational development advisor to executives, business leaders, and HR partners, applying a disciplined consulting approach to complex organisational and talent challenges.
• Lead a portfolio of organisational development programs, establish success measures and dashboards, manage external partners and budgets as assigned, and continuously improve solutions based on outcomes and stakeholder feedback.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in organisational development, industrial-organisational psychology, human resources, business, behavioural science, education, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in organisational development, organisational effectiveness, talent management, leadership development, change management, or a related discipline, including experience leading complex enterprise initiatives.
• Experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, advanced materials, chemicals, engineering, or other technically complex environment is preferred.

Skills

• Strong business acumen and systems thinking, with the ability to connect strategy,…