Organization Design Director

Overview

The Director of Organizational Effectiveness partners closely with executive leaders, HR Business Partners, and transformation teams to design and implement organizational structures that support business priorities. This role leads cross-functional efforts to clarify how work gets done-aligning structure, governance, and decision-making with strategy. The focus is on enabling agility, efficiency, and clarity through strong collaboration, data-driven insight, and practical application of organizational design principles.

Responsibilities

Organization Design and Operating Model Strategy:

• Build and standardize OE methodologies, toolkits, and practices for consistent application across the enterprise.
• Evaluate current organizational structures and recommend future-state designs aligned with strategy and growth.
• Lead organizational assessments focused on span of control, role clarity, decision rights, and structural alignment.
• Facilitate operating model redesigns and org design workshops with senior leaders to align structure, governance, and capabilities with business goals.

• Drive adoption of new structures and operating models by partnering with change management teams to deliver robust communication and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Anticipate risks associated with large-scale design shifts and recommend mitigation strategies to minimize disruption.

• Collaborate with workforce planning, finance, and HR partners to ensure that organizational design decisions are informed by workforce data and future capability needs
• Guide scenario modeling and simulations to assess impact of design changes on workforce size, cost, and composition.
• Lead assessments of organizational effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g., org network analysis, span of control reviews, role clarity assessments).

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $125,900 - $249,900.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 25% of annual salary paid out annually.
  And an additional target payout of 10% of annual salary is paid out over 3 years following the end of the performance period.
• Long term incentive equity may be awarded based on eligibility and performance.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

• Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, Industrial/Organizational Psychology or related field; Master's preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in organizational design, operating model strategy, or organization development.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in consulting firms specializing on organizational design.
• Proven success in leading large-scale design and transformation efforts in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Ability to build strong executive relationships and influence leaders through data, insight, and facilitation.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking capability; comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity.