Sr. Director, Workforce, Talent Planning & Organization Design

Open Text Corporation • Toronto, ON

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About The Position

The Senior Director Workforce, Talent Planning & Organization Design is a senior leadership role within the Human Resources organization, accountable for building and leading an enterprise Workforce & Talent Planning Center of Excellence. Partners HR Leadership, key business stakeholders and executives to integrate strategic people metrics into decisions on role prioritization, job augmentation, skills, scale, and location strategy (including job repatriation to Canada). Supports the business in redesigning roles, work, and processes for the future, building org design scenarios, and enabling leaders through workforce transitions. In setting up the CoE the job holder must be able to consult at the highest levels and take a hands-on approach to execution.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in workforce planning, talent strategy, organization design, or HR transformation within complex, global organizations
• Ability to build enterprise HR capabilities or COEs from the ground up.
• Strong experience partnering with Technology, IT, or Digital organizations on workforce and work design transformation.
• Executive-level influence and consulting skills; ability to advise C-suite and senior HR leaders.

Responsibilities

• Establish a strategic workforce and talent planning centre within HR, integrating demand forecasting, skills planning, and scenario modeling, and define the operating model, decision forums, and governance in partnership with Finance, HRBPs, and business leaders.
• Transform headcount management into a continuous, skills‑ and work‑led discipline, deliver executive‑ready insights linking workforce decisions to cost, capability, risk, and talent outcomes, and lead enterprise‑wide location and workforce deployment strategy.
• Model trade‑offs between cost, access to skills, productivity, and employee experience when informing location decisions.
• Ensure location strategy supports long‑term technology talent needs and workforce sustainability.
• Partner with IT, Digital, and AI leaders to interpret the enterprise AI roadmap, assess automation and generative‑AI impacts on how work is performed, and collaborate with Total Rewards to redesign job architectures and descriptions for human‑AI collaboration.
• Develop enterprise frameworks for job augmentation, role simplification, and work decomposition; partner with HRBPs and business leaders to apply them during transformations and operating‑model shifts; quantify AI‑driven workforce impacts on capacity, productivity, role mix, location strategy, and cost; and collaborate with People Analytics, Finance, and IT to ensure transparent reporting and credible value realization from AI investments.
• Establish OpenText’s approach to organization design and work design, including role clarity, spans and layers, and operating model effectiveness. Develop the simple “fit for purpose” toolkits to stand up this COE
• Implement org‑modeling and scenario‑planning tools, standardize workforce planning and org‑design practices across HRBPs through playbooks and coaching, and provide strategic thought partnership on transformation, growth, and restructuring.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed