[Hiring] Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness @Panasonic

Role Description

The Sr. Manager, Organizational Effectiveness supports enterprise and HR functional priorities by helping teams adopt complex capabilities, improve ways of working, and translate strategy into practical, business-ready outcomes. This role partners with business and HR leaders to strengthen organization design, operating model effectiveness, capability development, change adoption, process clarity, and employee experience, with particular focus on complex transformations such as artificial intelligence enablement, system implementations, new capability adoption, and cross-functional alignment.

The role also provides business-side stewardship for Human Resources technology capabilities by helping align roadmap priorities, adoption plans, and value measures to employee experience, operational needs, and available delivery capacity. The role will help strengthen how strategic initiatives are governed, measured, adopted, and sustained, creating a foundation for broader enterprise transformation and strategy execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support organizational design and operating model efforts that align structure, roles, decision rights, spans and layers, workflows, capabilities, governance, and ways of working to business strategy.
• Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders to assess complex or unclear current-state challenges, identify structural and process gaps, define what “good” looks like, and recommend practical design solutions that improve efficiency, accountability, collaboration, adoption, and employee experience.
• Establish common measures, scorecards, and leadership routines to assess organizational health, role clarity, process effectiveness, capacity, change readiness, adoption, benefits realization, and employee experience.
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions to clarify roles, improve handoffs, simplify processes, and strengthen accountability.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, redesign, automate, or redistribute work in ways that reduce unnecessary complexity and support more scalable ways of working across operations, product, technology, HR, and business teams.
• Provide business-side product stewardship for Human Resources Service Delivery capabilities.
• Partner closely with Information Technology, Human Resources Information Systems, ServiceNow, HR operations, and Centers of Excellence to shape product vision, evaluate new demand, sequence enhancements, and clarify trade-offs.
• Manage program plans, timelines, stakeholder inputs, materials, logistics, risks, dependencies, and follow-through to ensure high-quality execution.
• Support current transformation efforts, including system implementations and major business investments.
• Partner with HR, business leaders, project teams, and subject matter experts to support adoption of organizational changes.
• Build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders through thoughtful questioning, practical recommendations, strong storytelling, and disciplined follow-through.
• Establish and maintain a structured account management approach that enables Business Units to engage HR.
• Serve as a connective point between Business Unit needs and HR functional priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, Technology, Operations, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 7–10 years of relevant experience in organizational effectiveness, organization design, capability development, strategic workforce planning, HR strategy, HR business partnership, change management, business transformation, program management, product or technology transformation, or management consulting.
• Experience enabling complex capability adoption, including artificial intelligence or digital transformation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, executive-ready storytelling, facilitation, and the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office tools required; experience with workforce analytics, survey platforms, human capital management systems, project management tools preferred.

Requirements

• Occasional travel may be required based on business needs.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive workforce, organization, and employee information with discretion.
• Organizational development, change management, project management, design thinking, agile, or transformation certification preferred but not required.

Benefits

• Health Benefits – Offering medical, dental, vision, prescription plans, plus Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Voluntary Benefits – Life, accident, critical illness, disability, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) – 401(k) plan with company matching contributions and immediate vesting.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits – Vacation, holidays, personal days, sick leave, volunteer, and parental & caregiver leave.
• Educational Assistance – Tuition reimbursement for job-related courses after six months of service.
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs – Lifestyle Spending Account, EAP, virtual health management, chronic condition, neurodiversity, tobacco cessation, substance abuse support, and life stage and fertility resources.
• Employee Recognition Program - High5 employee recognition and awards platform, quarterly and annual employee recognition.
• Annual Bonus Program - Opportunity for an annual performance-based bonus.