Organization Development and Effectiveness Advisor

ExxonMobil • Houston, TX

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About The Position

As an Organization Development and Effectiveness Advisor you will be responsible for driving organizational performance through effective diagnosis, change management, organizational design, and team/leader effectiveness initiatives. This role focuses on enabling business transformation by aligning structures, processes, and people strategies with organizational goals. You will lead efforts to develop/ implement organization diagnosis methodology/ tools, apply leading organization design methods and to integrate formal structures with informal dynamics and operational enablers, and/or guide/ lead change on key initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or related field.
• 4 to 10 years of experience in organization design/OD/HR strategy in large, matrixed environments (energy, industrials, life sciences, or similar asset intensive sectors).
• Proven delivery in ODE in large matrixed global environment including organization diagnostics and quantitative analysis, delivery of change management and/or organization design across the end to end life cycle.
• Must have organization diagnostics or organization design relevant experience.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills; ability to influence across functions and geographies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with acute business acumen.
• Ability to work collaboratively and manage multiple priorities in ambiguous environments.
• Comfort operating from strategy altitude to detailed implementation; structured problem solving and crisp documentation.
• Proficiency in MS Office, project management methodologies, data tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI).

Nice To Haves

• Prosci Change Management Certification.
• Familiarity with project management approaches and lifecycle phases.
• Team/ Leader effectiveness experience/ skills Knowledge of behavioral science applications in organizational development.
• Proficiency in smartsheets and data visualization.
• Deeper expertise in organization diagnosis or organization design.

Responsibilities

• Organization Diagnosis Apply structured methodologies (e.g., 5 Star, Congruence, Systems Thinking) to lead organization diagnostics.
• Leverage organization data to bring forward key insights to senior leaders and HR Develop enhanced tools, methodologies and measurements to increase diagnostics effectiveness.
• Organizational Design Execute org design efforts across business units including upstream, downstream, low carbon solutions, and centralized organizations Conduct org diagnostics including spans & layers, role clarity, workflow bottlenecks, and informal network insights.
• Develop future-state structures, capability maps, governance models, and teaming norms.
• Facilitate design workshops and decision forums with HR and business leaders.
• Establish ways of working (team agreements, collaboration norms), governance (decision rights, accountability frameworks), and performance enablers (KPIs/OKRs, P&L alignment).
• Model financial and operational implications; run solution options and trade off sessions.
• Facilitate embedding new structures and behaviors to ensure alignment with business strategy.
• Change Management Apply structured methodologies (e.g., Prosci ADKAR®) to lead change management activities across projects.
• Conduct change impact assessments and stakeholder analyses to identify risks and opportunities.
• Develop and execute change management strategies, including communication, training, and resistance management plans.
• Partner with project teams, HR, and business leaders to integrate change activities into project plans.
• Create actionable deliverables such as sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans, and adoption tracking tools Establish feedback loops and success metrics to monitor adoption and sustain value capture Team/ Leader Effectiveness Analyze team effectiveness and address concerns with appropriate solutions Design solutions to address trending team/leader effectiveness needs at scale

Benefits

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level