Director, Engagement Partner, Org Effectiveness COE

Estée Lauder Companies•, NY

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About The Position

The Director, Engagement Partner is a senior practitioner within the Organizational Effectiveness Center of Excellence (OE CoE), responsible for driving the successful execution of enterprise organizational effectiveness engagements through structured problem-solving, analysis, and delivery excellence. Working closely with Engagement Leads, this role helps design and implement organizational solutions while ensuring high-quality outputs, analytical rigor, and consistent engagement delivery. The role translates complex business challenges into actionable approaches and recommendations, partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to support organizational design, operating model, workforce planning, and transformation initiatives.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in organizational effectiveness, consulting, or HR transformation roles, with strong experience in analytical problem solving and structured delivery.
Demonstrated experience supporting complex organizational design, operating model, or transformation initiatives.
Strong analytical capability, including experience synthesizing data and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
Experience working in a matrixed and global organization, with the ability to navigate multiple stakeholders and priorities.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, compelling materials and narratives.
High attention to detail and commitment to delivery excellence.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.

Responsibilities

Support end-to-end delivery of organizational effectiveness engagements, ensuring disciplined execution across workstreams.
Translate business challenges into structured workplans, hypotheses, and analytical approaches.
Develop high-quality deliverables that communicate insights, recommendations, and business implications, ensuring outputs meet established standards for quality, accuracy, and practical application.
Conduct analysis to support organizational design, operating model, and workforce-related decisions.
Partner with workforce planning and analytics resources to integrate data-driven insights into recommendations.
Support scenario modeling, option evaluation, and assessment of tradeoffs.
Synthesize complex information into clear narratives that drive stakeholder understanding and decision-making.
Lead defined workstreams, ensuring accountability, progress tracking, and alignment with engagement objectives.
Coordinate activities across stakeholders and teams to drive timely and effective execution.
Proactively identify and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies.
Balance speed, quality, and attention to detail across all phases of delivery.
Support stakeholder engagement through preparation of materials, facilitation of discussions, and alignment on key decisions.
Serve as a primary point of coordination across business leaders, HR partners, and COE stakeholders within assigned workstreams.
Capture, synthesize, and incorporate stakeholder feedback into deliverables and recommendations.
Build trusted relationships that promote collaboration and effective execution.
Partner with HRBPs and People teams to embed organizational design and workforce planning practices into strategic initiatives and business-as-usual operations.
Collaborate with People Experience teams to ensure organizational design and operating model recommendations translate into effective execution and sustainable adoption.
Help align organizational solutions with talent, change, and workforce priorities.
Apply OE methodologies, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across engagements.
Identify opportunities to improve tools, templates, and delivery approaches.
Contribute to the development and refinement of OE playbooks, frameworks, and methodologies.
Support capability building and knowledge sharing across the OE CoE.