Organizational Design Strategist

Kroger•Cincinnati, OH

15h

About The Position

Responsible for developing and implementing organizational design strategies that align with business goals, enhance agility, and optimize workforce performance. This role partners with leaders, HR, and cross-functional teams to assess current organizational models, identify gaps, and design future-state structures that support strategic priorities, innovation, and growth. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

Minimum 5+ years of experience in organizational design, organizational change management, HR Business Partner or leadership development, preferably in a large, complex organization
Demonstrated understanding of organizational structures and ability to align design strategies with business goals, financial outcomes and operational effectiveness
Experience with organizational design methodologies, digital tools and platforms
Strong leadership, analytical and strategic thinking skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to lead workshops and stakeholder discussions.
Strong problem solving, organizational and prioritization skills with a high attention to detail
Demonstrated time management and project management skills with ability to adapt to changing priorities and workload

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, organizational design/development, or equivalent experience
Experience leading or contributing to organizational change or workforce planning initiatives
Familiarity with HRIS systems and organizational modeling tools

Responsibilities

Partner with the business to design and maintain scalable, efficient organizational structures that align with strategic priorities, eliminate redundancies, achieve G&A targets and support continuous evolution across departments.
Develop and enforce organizational design standards, including reporting relationships, decision rights, workflows, and job profiles.
Serve as a resource for structure-related guidance, ensuring clarity, consistency, and adaptability as business needs change.
Conduct assessments of current organizational structures, roles, and capabilities using data to diagnose structural challenges and recommend changes to improve spans of control and enable decision-making.
Foster and build collaborative relationships across business units to understand interdependencies, improve efficiencies and support the company talent strategy.
Create appropriate timelines of actionable steps that drive accountabilities to meet targets.
Remove barriers to help foster creativity and create solutions in an inclusive business environment where all associates are respected and engaged.
Travel 20% to field locations and business sites.
Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.