Organization Design Consultant

Engagement Type

Contract / Independent Consultant (Project-Based)

Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Organizational Design Consultant to actively assess, design, and implement organizational structure changes. This role is highly execution-focused and will work directly with leadership, HR, and functional teams to redesign roles, workflows, and reporting structures that improve clarity, efficiency, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform detailed current-state analysis of organizational structures, roles, and workflows
• Conduct org design reviews with leaders to identify desired future state, assess current state and make detailed plans for future org changes
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and working sessions to gather requirements and validate findings
• Evaluate alternative organizational models and partner with business leaders on the structure, roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships that best support business objectives.
• Define and rewrite job roles, responsibilities, and decision rights
• Analyze spans of control, capacity, and workload distribution
• Identify role overlaps, gaps, and inefficiencies and propose practical solutions
• Partner with HR to align job architecture, leveling, and compensation bands (as applicable)
• Develop documentation including role descriptions, org design principles, and implementation plans
• Support leaders through execution, including transition planning and change impact management
• Track progress, risks, and issues throughout implementation
• Lead and facilitate large in-person stakeholder sessions/workshops to drive alignment, decision making; ensuring discussions remain focused and productive, guiding stakeholders toward clear decisions and agreed-upon organizational design outcomes.
• Facilitate executive leadership sessions on enterprise vision and strategy, drawing on prior experience leading similar engagements with other organizations

Qualifications

• 7+ years of direct experience in organizational design, organizational effectiveness, or management consulting
• Demonstrated experience building and implementing org structuresnot just advising on them
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable design decisions
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and fast-moving environments
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and documentation skills
• Ability to work independently and drive deliverables to completion
• Qualified candidates must demonstrate executive presence and gravitas, with strong interpersonal skills to engage credibly with leaders and teams.

Preferred Experience

• Experience executing org redesigns during growth and/or restructuring.
• Strong partnership experience with Corporate Function Leaders and Executive Leadership
• Familiarity with workforce planning tools, spreadsheets, and HRIS data
• Change management execution experience (communications, transition plans)

Contract Details

• Duration: 36 months with the option to extend
• Hours 40 hours per week
• Location: Hybrid/Remote- Commutable distance to Madison, NJ with the expectation to work out of the HQ office a few times per month.

Deliverables

• Current-state and future-state org charts
• Revised job descriptions and role definitions
• Headcount and capacity models
• Implementation and transition plans
• Change impact and risk mitigation documentation

Submit your resume today!