Senior Partner, Org Design & Workforce Architecture

ATB•Edmonton, AB

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role operates as a strategic co-pilot, a high-influence, enterprise-level architect who seamlessly merges macro structural organizational design with deep workforce skill architecture. This role is responsible for transforming functional and enterprise business strategies into highly optimized, future-ready operating models. Moving far beyond simple structural charting, this role serves as a trusted senior advisor. This role will translate corporate strategy into structural designs, multi-year capability forecasting, workforce segmentation, and robust skill taxonomies while building long-term organizational health, agility, and capability. This position has a hybrid work arrangement, with an average of 1-2 days on-site per week, subject to change due to business priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour, or a related field.
7+ years of progressive, high-impact experience in organizational design, workforce strategy, management consulting, or enterprise transformation within complex corporate structures.
Advanced expertise in organizational design, operating model transformation, job architecture management, job evaluation, and role analysis.
Proven experience building skill taxonomies, capability frameworks, and adapting workforce strategies for AI role evolution and enterprise transformation.
Demonstrated ability to build trust as a domain expert, managing complex matrixed stakeholders and guiding leadership through structural decisions.
Strong business acumen with experience building business cases, validating solutions, and aligning organizational structures with strategic business goals.
Solid track record in work plan development, project risk management, process modeling, and program governance to keep initiatives on milestone.
Expertise in gap analysis, change management principles, and metrics reporting to ensure smooth transition adoption and long-term operating model scalability.

Nice To Haves

Professional certifications in Organizational Design (e.g., ODCP), Change Management (e.g., Prosci), or Job Evaluation (e.g., Korn Ferry Hay Group) are strong assets.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end organizational design (OD) and operating model initiatives, converting business strategies into clear governance, accountability models, and optimized spans-and-layers.
Build agile operating models prepared for AI role evolution, modern enterprise resource planning implementations, and evolving governance needs.
Evaluate alternative service-delivery models by balancing cost, capacity, decision rights, risk, and employee experience to guide executive decisions.
Provide confidential advisory to senior leaders and People & Culture (P&C) Partners to resolve structural friction and bring clarity to complex roles.
Design and facilitate workshops to navigate organizational decisions, backed by business cases and financial impact models.
Coach P&C partners, mentor specialists, and build OD toolkits and resources to cultivate an enterprise-wide design community of practice.
Support the evolution of the enterprise job catalog, foundational job-leveling methodologies, skill taxonomies, and skills-adjacency mapping.
Guide P&C Partners on applying job evaluation frameworks to complex, non-standard role requests, establishing baseline recommendations and new career pathways.
Support the quarterly and annual workforce architecture reviews to ensure job structures align with broader future-of-work and AI integration strategies.
Conduct deep organizational diagnostics, external benchmarking, and predictive scenario analyses to uncover structural inefficiencies.
Partner with Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) to translate long-term corporate direction into multi-year talent supply-and-demand scenarios, identifying critical future skill gaps.