Organizational Effectiveness Specialist
Posted:
Thursday, 05 February 2026
Valid Thru:
Saturday, 07 March 2026
Index Requested on:
02/05/2026 08:38:32
Indexed on:
02/05/2026 08:38:33
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 the planning, design, and development of activation and sustainment strategies. The Organizational Effectiveness Specialist plays a key role in supporting the design, enablement and execution of high-impact strategies and initiatives to drive adoption, engagement, tracking/reporting, and sustainment of strategic shifts across the enterprise. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Minimum - High school diploma or GED
- 3+ years of experience in strategy execution, transformation management, organizational change management, organizational effectiveness, organizational development, or management consulting
- Experience supporting change enablement within fast-faced, matrixed organization
- Expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness methodologies and frameworks, digital tools and platforms
- Strong leadership, analytical and strategic thinking skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated time management and project management skills with ability to adapt to changing priorities and workload
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams
Desired - Bachelor's degree in industrial/organizational psychology, organizational leadership, human resources, or related fields
- PROSCI Certification, Six Sigma Certification
- Experience leading large cross-functional strategic change initiatives
- Experience with business transformation initiatives
- Support change management strategy activation planning, change impacts, and communication strategy.
- Provide advice and guidance to senior leaders and business owners on best change management approaches.
- Conducts change impact analysis and heat mapping to understand impacts and potential risks.
- Lead audience analysis, stakeholder analysis, and champion change communities and engagement.
- Support change management training sessions and workshops; inclusive of the development of training materials and job aids, and tracking attendance and feedback from training sessions.
- Conduct surveys to assess readiness and adoption, monitor feedback channels for signs of resistance or confusion and escalate as appropriate.
- Identify resistance and performance gaps and work to develop corrective actions.
- Maintain change management documentation and repositories.
- Gather and analyze data related to adoption, engagement, and program success to help diagnose opportunities, recommend solutions, and provide consistent updates to program team and key stakeholders.
- Support business functions in closing capability gaps by driving interventions, partnering with key leaders, and creating adoption strategies.
- Travel 10% to field and business locations.
- 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.
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