Business Optimization Specialist

Mesa Associates, Inc.; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mesa Associates, Inc. seeks a Business Optimization Specialist to partner with leaders across the enterprise to improve organizational effectiveness, accelerate initiative execution, and optimize how work is performed across teams.

This role blends organizational development with enterprise-wide change enablement, operating model improvement, workforce capability development, and performance enhancement to help achieve long-term objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise-wide initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience facilitating organizational assessments and translating findings into action plans.
• Experience improving governance, operating models, or organizational performance.
• Experience establishing organizational metrics and performance indicators.
• Ability to influence leaders without direct authority.
• Experience working in regulated or asset-intensive industries such as energy, utilities, engineering, manufacturing, or infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Align structures, governance, and capabilities with strategic priorities across the enterprise.
• Design and implement operating models to improve collaboration, accountability, and execution.
• Develop stakeholder engagement and adoption strategies for new processes and practices.
• Monitor adoption metrics and identify opportunities to sustain results.
• Support large-scale organizational change through structured planning and execution.

Skills

Org Dev

Org Effectiveness

Business Optimization

Operational Excellence

Org Design

Workforce Planning

Program Management

Leadership Development

Process Improvement

Management Consulting

Education

Bachelor's or higher

Job description

This position is not eligible for recruiting or sourcing by outside parties.

The Business Optimization Specialist partners with leaders across the enterprise to improve organizational effectiveness, accelerate strategic initiative execution, and optimize how work is performed across teams. This role combines organizational development expertise with enterprise-wide change enablement, operating model improvement, workforce capability development, and organizational performance enhancement to help the organization achieve long-term business objectives.

The successful candidate will work across functional boundaries to align organizational structures, governance, workforce capabilities, leadership practices, and ways of working to support strategic priorities and operational excellence.

Core Functions of the Role

Organizational Effectiveness & Enterprise Alignment

• Assess organizational structures, governance models, and decision-making frameworks to improve organizational effectiveness.
• Partner with leaders to align organizational capabilities with strategic priorities.
• Facilitate the design and implementation of operating models that improve collaboration, accountability, and execution.
• Evaluate organizational barriers that impact performance and recommend sustainable solutions.
• Support restructuring, role design, and workforce alignment initiatives.
• Support a people-centered approach to transformation by addressing resistance, enabling learning, and sustaining new behaviors beyond implementation

Strategic Initiative Enablement

• Partner with executive and functional leaders to support implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Develop stakeholder engagement strategies to increase adoption of new processes, technologies, and business practices.
• Facilitate organization readiness assessments and implementation planning.
• Monitor adoption metrics and identify opportunities to improve outcomes and sustain results.
• Support large-scale organizational change efforts through structured planning and execution.

Organizational Performance Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and workforce productivity.
• Conduct organizational diagnostics, including health assessments, workforce analysis, and culture/readiness evaluations to identify root causes of performance challenges
• Collaborate with operational leaders to improve cross-functional processes and organizational workflows.
• Develop performance measurement approaches that link organizational outcomes to strategic objectives.
• Use data and analytics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities impacting organizational performance.
• Recommend actions that strengthen execution, accountability, and operational consistency.

Leadership & Capability Development

• Design and deliver leadership development strategies aligned with organizational objectives.
• Create workforce capability and competency frameworks that support future business needs.
• Facilitate leadership alignment sessions, team effectiveness workshops, and organizational planning activities.
• Facilitate prioritization and resource alignment to ensure focus on high-impact, strategically aligned work
• Support succession planning and critical workforce readiness initiatives.
• Develop strategies to build organizational adaptability and resilience.

Standards, Governance & Adoption

• Establish governance frameworks that support organizational consistency and effective decision-making.
• Partner with business leaders to standardize practices, roles, and responsibilities across organizations.
• Develop implementation and adoption plans for new organizational standards and methodologies.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by reinforcing sustainable organizational practices.
• Establish and monitor success metrics (KPIs), adoption measures, and feedback loops to reinforce behavior change and continuous improvement
• Track and report on organizational performance, adoption, and effectiveness metrics.

Preferred Experience

• Organizational Development
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Business Optimization
• Operational Excellence
• Organizational Design
• Workforce Planning
• Program Management
• Leadership Development
• Process Improvement
• Management Consulting

Candidate Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise-wide initiatives with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating organizational assessments and translating findings into action plans.
• Experience improving governance, operating models, or organizational performance.
• Experience establishing organizational metrics and performance indicators.
• Ability to influence leaders without direct authority.
• Experience working in regulated or asset-intensive industries such as energy, utilities, engineering, manufacturing, or infrastructure.

This opportunity is for a hybrid work environment (home and office) and requires residing within the Richmond, VA area.

At this time, Mesa cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position.

Qualifications

Education

Preferred

Bachelors or better.

Experience

Required

6-14 years

6 - 14

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