Director, Organizational Design

100 King Street West Toronto Ontario,M5X 1A1

The Director, Organizational Design & Effectiveness (ODE) leads and executes strategic enterprise organizational transformation initiatives. The role partners with business and HR leaders to complete strategic ODE work to deliver business results and/or minimize risk. Projects are of high impact and strategic in nature.

Key focus areas include: (1) providing advice and counsel on enterprise business transformation / organizational restructuring initiatives for senior leaders (2) leveraging analytics to inform ODE opportunities, and (3) modernizing ODE methodologies and tools based on leading practices. Key advisory accountabilities include end-to-end consultation and facilitation of all phases of ODE initiatives such as: strategic positioning, current state diagnostics (qualitative and quantitative), design principles, design options / recommendations, job evaluations, implementation and change management.

Provides advice and counsel on organization design and organization effectiveness opportunities to a designated business/group to execute the HR strategy and business/group strategy. Completes specific strategic / operational work to deliver business results and/or minimize risk.
- Leads ODE projects from inception to implementation, ensuring alignment with business strategies, stakeholder needs and emerging practices.
- Develops longer term program strategies assessing both internal needs & industry trends to deliver best-in-class programs for BMO.
- Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges and monitors and tracks performance on organization health & executive portfolio health, and addresses any issues.
- Leads and builds change management strategies and plans to drive adoption and behaviour change.
- Provides advice and guidance to assigned business/group on implementation of wide range of organization solutions; includes organization efficiency (e.g., number of layers, span of control, compression) and organization effectiveness (e.g., job design and role clarity, decision making authority & collaboration) and organization development.

Overview:

- Directs strategic programs that impact BMO and provides integrated management of related projects and internal or external stakeholders.
- Develops the business case by identifying needs, analyzing potential options and assessing expected return on investment.
- Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.
- Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.
- Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviours in all that they do.
- Ensures alignment between values and behaviour that fosters diversity and inclusion.
- Regularly connects work to BMO's purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
- Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
- Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
- Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
- Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders for making business decisions and implementing strategic initiatives.
- Develops an expert understanding of business/group challenges.
- May consult to or serve on various committees and task forces.
- Influences and negotiates to achieve business objectives.
- Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.
- Develops longer term program strategies assessing both internal needs & industry trends to deliver best-in-class programs for BMO.
- Directs strategic programs that impact BMO and provides integrated management of related projects and internal or external stakeholders.
- Develops the business case by identifying needs, analysing potential options and assessing expected return on investment.
- Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.
- Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.
- Acts as the prime contact for internal/external stakeholder relationships, which may include regulators.
- Defines business requirements for analytics & reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.
- Designs and produces regular and ad-hoc reports, and dashboards.
- Leads the development of the communication strategy focusing on positively influencing or changing behaviour.
- Collaborates across BMO to develop communications strategies and ensure consistency of messaging, in order to positively influence or change behaviour.
- Builds change management plans of varying scope and type; leads or participates in