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This role helps leaders translate business strategy into the organizational structures, workforce capabilities, leadership practices, and execution plans required to achieve measurable business results.Serve as a strategic advisor to senior business and HR leaders, the Director engages early in enterprise priorities to diagnose organizational needs, shape solutions, and guide execution. The role leads work across organization strategy and design, workforce strategy and planning, work design, enterprise change, leadership and team effectiveness, and organizational health.\nBy considering organizational, workforce, talent, and change implications early, this role enables stronger alignment, faster transformation, greater workforce readiness, and sustainable performance.\nAs a member of the Talent and Culture leadership community, the Director partners with senior Talent and Culture leadership to prioritize the enterprise Organizational Effectiveness agenda. The Director leads demand management, resource deployment, standards, and execution within the agreed priorities while working closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Partners, business leaders, and enterprise stakeholders.\nDUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:\nOrganization Strategy and Design\nTranslate business strategy into organizational structures, operating models, governance, decision rights, and clear accountabilities.\nLead organization and work-design efforts that improve alignment, agility, coordination, and performance while addressing the implications of growth, restructuring, transformation, and technology.\nWorkforce Planning and Future Readiness\nTranslate business strategy into future workforce, skill, capacity, and capability needs.\nLead enterprise talent assessment, talent review, and succession planning practices to ensure robust talent pipelines for the future and drive measurable business results.\nUse analytics and scenario planning to identify emerging risks and guide work redesign in response to changing business needs, artificial intelligence, automation, and other evolving technologies.\nChange and Transformation\nDevelop change strategies that strengthen readiness, alignment, adoption, reinforcement, and business value realization.\nCoordinate change across transformation initiatives by identifying dependencies, cumulative impacts, workforce implications, and capacity risks.\nLeadership and Team Effectiveness\nStrengthen leadership alignment, team performance, decision quality, accountability, and execution.\nSupport leaders and teams through transitions and change using targeted interventions that improve collaboration and performance.\nEnterprise Consulting\nDiagnose complex organizational challenges using business data, workforce analytics, organizational insights, and stakeholder perspectives.\nRecommend practical solutions and influence senior leaders through strategic insight, constructive challenge, facilitation, and consulting expertise.\nGovernance and Operating Model Leadership\nPartner with senior Talent and Culture leadership to prioritize Organizational Effectiveness demand based on business need, value, risk, dependencies, and capacity.\nLead portfolio sequencing and resource deployment within agreed priorities while establishing consistent methods, tools, and delivery standards.\nStrategic HR Partnering\nPartner with HR Business Partners, Talent Partners, Strategy, Finance, Technology, and transformation leaders to deliver integrated and executable organizational and workforce solutions.\nClarify roles and engagement expectations while ensuring Organizational Effectiveness is involved early in strategic priorities.\nMeasurement and Business Impact\nDefine measures of organizational health, workforce readiness, leadership alignment, adoption, and business performance.\nEstablish clear outcomes and use evidence and feedback to evaluate impact and improve solutions.\nTeam Leadership and Capability Building\nLead and develop Organizational Effectiveness professionals to operate as enterprise consultants and strategic advisors.\nBuild scalable methods, tools, and capabilities that strengthen Organizational Effectiveness across HR and business leaders.\nQUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:\nRequired:\nBachelor’s degree in organizational development, human resources, business administration, industrial-organizational psychology, behavioral science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. Master’s degree in a relevant field preferred.\n10+ years of progressive experience in organizational effectiveness, organization design, transformation, workforce strategy and planning, consulting (internal or external), change leadership, and HR strategy\n5+ years of leadership experience, including at least two years of direct people-management experience.\nExperience applying change management methodologies, such as Prosci ADKAR or Kotter’s 8-Step Process; relevant certification preferred.\nExperience applying organization design methodologies, such as Galbraith’s Star Model or the McKinsey 7S Framework;\nDeep expertise in organizational effectiveness, organization design, workforce strategy and planning, work design, and change leadership.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise-wide organizational and transformation initiatives.\nStrong consulting, facilitation, and executive-influence skills, including the ability to drive alignment without direct authority.\nAbility to translate business strategy into practical organizational and workforce solutions.\nStrong business and financial acumen and an understanding of how organizational and workforce decisions affect enterprise performance.\nDemonstrated ability to assess the organizational, workforce, leadership, and change implications of artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging technologies.\nStrong analytical capability using workforce data, organizational insights, scenarios, and business metrics to guide decisions.\nExperience establishing governance, methodologies, tools, operating frameworks, and enterprise standards.\nExperience managing demand, deploying resources, sequencing a portfolio, and navigating competing priorities.\nSound enterprise judgment and the ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic execution.\nTrack-record of building high-performing teams and developing Organizational Effectiveness capability at scale.\nExperience advising senior leaders and influencing enterprise decisions without direct authority\nPreferred:\nRelevant Org Design methodologies certification preferred.\nPay TransparencyThrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $161,436.00 - $218,415.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation,pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status,genetic information, or any otherstatus protected by applicable local, state,or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.\nThrivent iscommitted to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. 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