Organizational Design Manager

Job : 9838

Employment Type: New Role

Working Business Language: English. This role is considered a head‑office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.

Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full‑time and part‑time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top‑up programs and are provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and a pension plan. The salary offered for this role is estimated to be within the following range: $120,000–$145,000.

Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.

At Wawanesa, we offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in‑office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. You may work from any of the following locations:
Winnipeg, MB;
Vancouver, BC;
Calgary, AB;
Edmonton, AB;
Toronto (North York), ON;
Kitchener, ON;
Ottawa, ON;
Montreal, QC;
Moncton, NB;
Dartmouth, NS.

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (“Wawanesa Mutual”) was founded in 1896 and is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual, with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada, and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada.

Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada, and we are home to more than 3,300 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities, donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations, including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. We are also proud to be recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers.

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We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.

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 future‑ready, collaborative, and strategically aligned.

• Lead and support end‑to‑end organizational design initiatives, from problem definition and diagnosis through design, leadership approval, implementation, and post‑implementation 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 evidence‑based 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 work streams 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 trade‑off discussions.
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