Organizational Development & Effectiveness Manager

Spectrum Brands' global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

As the Organizational Development and Effectiveness Leader, you will work directly with executives and HR partners to enhance team development, improve organizational structure, optimize HR processes, lead change management efforts, and measure success. You will also provide executive coaching to elevate leadership capabilities. This role requires a combination of strategic HR leadership, operational excellence, change management expertise, and personal development skills, with a strong focus on process optimization methodologies (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma, RACI's) to streamline processes and facilitate smooth transitions during organizational change.

This Organizational Development and Effectiveness Leader will be an individual contributor that serves as a specialist within the Organizational Effectiveness Center of Expertise (COE) and reports to the Senior Director, Organizational Effectiveness.

Process Optimization

• Lead process optimization initiatives using organization effectiveness methodologies, systems thinking, and data analysis to ensure efficient and effective HR operations.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive HR process documentation for consistency and training purposes.
• Ensure HR workflows are aligned with business objectives, driving operational excellence and reducing bottlenecks
• Support the definition of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of organizational systems and their impact on business results.

People Strategy

• Create and deliver a people strategy framework with a starting point of identifying critical roles that assesses current state of talent and people processes, areas of risk, and recommendations for enhancements that support growth and high-performing teams.
• Utilize external best practices and provide thought leadership through customer, consumer, and employee lens to ensure people processes support an optimal employee experience.
• Support the development of role profiles for key executive and critical talent segment roles and leverage insights to guide talent practices and leadership development needs in partnership with OE team.
• Continue to evolve the employee listening strategy and leverage insights from results and action planning data to provide recommendations to OE workstreams including talent management, people development and internal communications

Organizational and Executive Support

• Effectively assesses complex, ambiguous situations with ability to create practical, clear and simple solutions with high impact.
• Develop and implement change management strategies and plans to facilitate smooth transitions, mitigate resistance, and drive the adoption of new processes, systems, or structures.
• Partner with HR and executives to support initiatives and events that foster effective collaboration and high-performance teams.
• Provide one-on-one executive coaching to senior leaders to enhance leadership and organizational effectiveness, emotional intelligence, and decision-making while supporting their growth and ability to navigate organizational challenges.
• Facilitate leadership assessments, feedback sessions, and development plans for executives and senior leadership.
• Identify and drive initiatives that support organizational goals of Belonging and Inclusion including leadership of the NA Be In Council.

• 10+ years of experience in HR leadership, with a focus on team and organizational development, change management, and executive coaching.
• BA/BS in related field required. Masters in OD/IO Psychology preferred.
• Accredited certification preferred in one or more of the following areas: coaching (e.g., ICF, CCLC), change management, and Lean/Six Sigma

• Strategic Consultative Approach: Have a proven track record of partnering effectively with senior leaders and HR partners and serving as a trusted advisor on organizational development and design and workforce strategy.
• Business Acumen: Uses a systems thinking perspective view the organization holistically and understand connections and interdependencies between components
• Global Perspective: Experience in navigating across different cultures and markets is essential and a demonstrated ability to successfully manage the complexities of a global organization and delivery of inclusive and adaptable business strategies.
• Leadership and Influence: Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams and successfully drive adoption of new organizational solutions across the organization.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Proficiency in using data to inform organization design and workforce planning strategies. Experience leveraging data to understand trends, measure the impact of organizational initiatives, recommend actions and deliver solutions.

• Process Optimization Proficiency: Experience with organizational effectiveness and process optimization tools and methodologies, such as Lean/Six Sigma, Kaizen, process mapping, value stream mapping, continuous improvement, and RACIs Certification preferred

• Executive Coaching: Accredited coaching certification (e.g., ICF, CCLC, or similar) and experience in executive coaching.
• Change Management Expertise: Experience in leading and managing change at the enterprise level, including change communication, stakeholder management, and resistance mitigation. Certification in change management is preferred.
• HR Expertise: In-depth knowledge of HR practices, including organizational development, employee engagement, performance management, and talent development.

• M&A: Experience with facilitating cross-cultural understanding and adapting HR practices to different regions and new ventures.
• Agile Project Management: Experience working and navigating fast-paced, global, matrixed environments and managing multiple projects and priorities concurrently

Working conditions are normal for an office environment. We operate on a hybrid work scheduled. Monday and Friday from home and Tuesday through Thursday in office.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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