Organizational Design Strategist

Posted: Thursday, 05 February 2026
Valid Thru: Saturday, 07 March 2026
Index Requested on: 02/05/2026 08:35:48
Indexed on: 02/05/2026 08:35:48

Location: Cincinnati, OH, 45201, US

Industry: Advertising and Public Relations
Occupational Category: 13-0000.00 - Business and Financial Operations
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

Kroger, a division of Kroger Co., is hiring!

Description:

Responsible for developing and implementing organizational design strategies that align with business goals, enhance agility, and optimize workforce performance. This role partners with leaders, HR, and cross-functional teams to assess current organizational models, identify gaps, and design future-state structures that support strategic priorities, innovation, and growth. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.Minimum
  • 5+ years of experience in organizational design, organizational change management, HR Business Partner or leadership development, preferably in a large, complex organization
  • Demonstrated understanding of organizational structures and ability to align design strategies with business goals, financial outcomes and operational effectiveness
  • Experience with organizational design methodologies, digital tools and platforms
  • Strong leadership, analytical and strategic thinking skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to lead workshops and stakeholder discussions.
  • Strong problem solving, organizational and prioritization skills with a high attention to detail
  • Demonstrated time management and project management skills with ability to adapt to changing priorities and workload


Desired
  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, organizational design/development, or equivalent experience
  • Experience leading or contributing to organizational change or workforce planning initiatives
  • Familiarity with HRIS systems and organizational modeling tools
  • Partner with the business to design and maintain scalable, efficient organizational structures that align with strategic priorities, eliminate redundancies, achieve G& A targets and support continuous evolution across departments.
  • Develop and enforce organizational design standards, including reporting relationships, decision rights, workflows, and job profiles.
  • Serve as a resource for structure-related guidance, ensuring clarity, consistency, and adaptability as business needs change.
  • Conduct assessments of current organizational structures, roles, and capabilities using data to diagnose structural challenges and recommend changes to improve spans of control and enable decision-making.
  • Foster and build collaborative relationships across business units to understand interdependencies, improve efficiencies and support the company talent strategy.
  • Create appropriate timelines of actionable steps that drive accountabilities to meet targets.
  • Remove barriers to help foster creativity and create solutions in an inclusive business environment where all associates are respected and engaged.
  • Travel 20% to field locations and business sites.
  • Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment.
  • Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner.
  • Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
  • Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues
  • Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
  • Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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