[Hiring] Director, Organizational Effectiveness and Workforce Strategy @Thrivent

Role Description

The Director, Organizational Effectiveness and Workforce Strategy is an enterprise leader responsible for advancing Thrivent’s Organizational Effectiveness capability. 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.

By considering organizational, workforce, talent, and change implications early, this role enables stronger alignment, faster transformation, greater workforce readiness, and sustainable performance.

As 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Organization Strategy and Design:
  • Translate business strategy into organizational structures, operating models, governance, decision rights, and clear accountabilities.
  • Lead organization and work-design efforts that improve alignment, agility, coordination, and performance while addressing the implications of growth, restructuring, transformation, and technology.
• Workforce Planning and Future Readiness:
  • Translate business strategy into future workforce, skill, capacity, and capability needs.
  • Lead enterprise talent assessment, talent review, and succession planning practices to ensure robust talent pipelines for the future and drive measurable business results.
  • Use 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.
• Change and Transformation:
  • Develop change strategies that strengthen readiness, alignment, adoption, reinforcement, and business value realization.
  • Coordinate change across transformation initiatives by identifying dependencies, cumulative impacts, workforce implications, and capacity risks.
• Leadership and Team Effectiveness:
  • Strengthen leadership alignment, team performance, decision quality, accountability, and execution.
  • Support leaders and teams through transitions and change using targeted interventions that improve collaboration and performance.
• Enterprise Consulting:
  • Diagnose complex organizational challenges using business data, workforce analytics, organizational insights, and stakeholder perspectives.
  • Recommend practical solutions and influence senior leaders through strategic insight, constructive challenge, facilitation, and consulting expertise.
• Governance and Operating Model Leadership:
  • Partner with senior Talent and Culture leadership to prioritize Organizational Effectiveness demand based on business need, value, risk, dependencies, and capacity.
  • Lead portfolio sequencing and resource deployment within agreed priorities while establishing consistent methods, tools, and delivery standards.
• Strategic HR Partnering:
  • Partner with HR Business Partners, Talent Partners, Strategy, Finance, Technology, and transformation leaders to deliver integrated and executable organizational and workforce solutions.
  • Clarify roles and engagement expectations while ensuring Organizational Effectiveness is involved early in strategic priorities.
• Measurement and Business Impact:
  • Define measures of organizational health, workforce readiness, leadership alignment, adoption, and business performance.
  • Establish clear outcomes and use evidence and feedback to evaluate impact and improve solutions.
• Team Leadership and Capability Building:
  • Lead and develop Organizational Effectiveness professionals to operate as enterprise consultants and strategic advisors.
  • Build scalable methods, tools, and capabilities that strengthen Organizational Effectiveness across HR and business leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’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.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in organizational effectiveness, organization design, transformation, workforce strategy and planning, consulting (internal or external), change leadership, and HR strategy.
• 5+ years of leadership experience, including at least two years of direct people-management experience.
• Experience applying change management methodologies, such as Prosci ADKAR or Kotter’s 8-Step Process; relevant certification preferred.
• Experience applying organization design methodologies, such as Galbraith’s Star Model or the McKinsey 7S Framework.
• Deep expertise in organizational effectiveness, organization design, workforce strategy and planning, work design, and change leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise-wide organizational and transformation initiatives.
• Strong consulting, facilitation, and executive-influence skills, including the ability to drive alignment without direct authority.
• Ability to translate business strategy into practical organizational and workforce solutions.
• Strong business and financial acumen and an understanding of how organizational and workforce decisions affect enterprise performance.
• Demonstrated ability to assess the organizational, workforce, leadership, and change implications of artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Strong analytical capability using workforce data, organizational insights, scenarios, and business metrics to guide decisions.
• Experience establishing governance, methodologies, tools, operating frameworks, and enterprise standards.
• Experience managing demand, deploying resources, sequencing a portfolio, and navigating competing priorities.
• Sound enterprise judgment and the ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic execution.
• Track record of building high-performing teams and developing Organizational Effectiveness capability at scale.
• Experience advising senior leaders and influencing enterprise decisions without direct authority.

Benefits

• 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.