Senior Consultant | Talent & Organizational Effectiveness
About The Position
The Senior HR Consultant, Talent and Organizational Effectiveness partners directly with the Vice President of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness to design, coordinate, and execute strategic people initiatives that strengthen talent density, elevate workforce capability, and improve business performance. The position serves as a strategic project, program, and analytics advisor, working across HR, Talent, Finance, People Analytics, IT, and business leaders to advance priorities. Candidates must live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, or Iowa. The position is eligible for remote work, subject to organizational policy and approval. The role has scheduled weekly hours of 40 and a starting salary of $92,539.20, with additional compensation for experience. The consultant leads cross-functional initiatives, supports enterprise talent and organizational effectiveness efforts, translates workforce and organizational data into recommendations, and prepares executive communications and presentations. The role also supports dashboards, workforce planning, reskilling and internal mobility initiatives, project governance, and research on talent acquisition, AI in HR, and organizational effectiveness. Some administrative support for the VP may be needed in partnership with the Executive Assistant. The role is suited to an experienced HR professional who can work with senior executives, manage multiple priorities, use data and AI-enabled tools, and communicate clearly. Healthcare experience is highly preferred. The position practices and promotes behavior consistent with the organization's mission, vision, and values. The organization states its mission as inspiring people's best lives through caring, learning, and innovating; its vision is a future of healthy people and thriving communities; and its values are belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork, and humility.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- 7+ years of progressive HR, Talent, HR consulting, or Organizational Effectiveness experience, including work with senior executives.
- Experience using data and analytics to drive talent strategy.
- Candidates must live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, or Iowa.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, communicate clearly with executive leaders, and turn information into practical recommendations.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- Healthcare industry experience; described as highly preferred.
- Experience applying AI-enabled tools, workforce intelligence platforms, or generative AI solutions in HR, talent, workforce planning, learning, or organizational effectiveness.
- Strong Workday skills.
- Experience coordinating multiple projects and priorities.
- Strong executive communication skills, including building polished PowerPoint presentations.
- Comfort supporting senior leaders with both strategic and administrative needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning, coordination, and execution of cross-functional HR and talent initiatives sponsored by the VP of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness.
- Build project charters, workplans, timelines, and success measures to keep initiatives organized and on track.
- Partner with Talent, HR Business Partners, People Analytics, Finance, IT, and business leaders to drive alignment and timely delivery.
- Support enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen talent density, including skills-based hiring, internal mobility, reskilling, and organizational effectiveness efforts.
- Help design and improve precision hiring and talent systems, including structured decision criteria, skills-based selection, and feedback loops.
- Develop executive-level presentations, briefing materials, dashboards, one-pagers, and talking points for internal and external audiences.
- Translate workforce analytics, AI insights, and organizational data into clear recommendations for executive decision-making.
- Partner with People Analytics and HRIS to build and maintain dashboards related to talent, internal mobility, skills, performance, and retention.
- Track key metrics and surface insights to help the VP and HR leadership identify risks, opportunities, and priority actions.
- Support light workforce planning by consolidating demand signals, hiring plans, and capability needs into actionable views.
- Coordinate workforce development, reskilling, and internal mobility initiatives using the Four R Framework: Recruit, Retain, Reskill, and Redesign.
- Establish project governance routines, milestone tracking, decision logs, and risk and issue registers for key initiatives.
- Prepare follow-up communications, decision summaries, and next-step requests to keep teams accountable and maintain momentum.
- Conduct research on best practices in talent acquisition, AI in HR, and organizational effectiveness.
- Analyze internal and external data and develop options, scenarios, and recommendations for executive leaders.
- Provide some administrative support to the VP as needed, in partnership with the Executive Assistant.
- Practice and promote behavior consistent with the organization's mission, vision, and values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
