Director, Organizational Design

McDonald's Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 178,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock/equity grants

Bonus eligible

Job summary

McDonald’s seeks a dynamic Director, Organization Design and Effectiveness to join its Global Talent team. This role translates strategy into practical operating models, shapes future-state structures, and defines decision rights to drive accountability and impact across a global organization.

You will partner with senior leaders, HR partners, and cross-functional colleagues to diagnose challenges, design solutions, and implement changes that enable business priorities, sustain performance, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; Master’s degree strongly preferred.
• Experience diagnosing organizational challenges and translating insights into practical solutions.
• Strong project leadership with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders and HR across global organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead organization effectiveness engagements translating strategy into operating models, structures, roles, governance, and decision rights.
• Partner with senior leaders to assess performance and implement practical solutions.
• Diagnose organizational challenges using diverse inputs and change readiness insights.
• Lead design and operating model work, including roles, interfaces, and implementation plans.
• Facilitate leadership discussions to align priorities and decisions.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align change management and communications.
• Develop executive-ready recommendations using data from workforce, finance, and qualitative inputs.
• Manage parallel initiatives across multiple workstreams and dependencies.
• Build repeatable tools and practices for organization effectiveness.
• Stay current on trends in organization design and transformation.

Skills

Organization design

Change management

Strategy

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Management consulting

Workforce strategy

Emotional intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Company Description:

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily.We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range ofoutstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

Department Overview

We are looking for a dynamic Director, Organization Design and Effectiveness to join our Global Talent team. This role will support the Global Finance Transformation priorities by helping leaders translate strategy into practical organization solutions, including effective operating models, organization structures, decision rights, and implementation plans. The role will also focus on improving organizational effectiveness, enabling transformation, and designing solutions that help teams operate with greater clarity, accountability, and impact.

At McDonald’s, aligning our workforce across a large, global, and evolving business requires more than structure alone. It requires clear strategy translation, effective ways of working, strong leadership alignment, disciplined problem solving, thoughtful change planning, and organizational solutions that can be adopted and sustained. The Director, Organization Design will help leaders diagnose organizational challenges, shape future-state operating models, clarify roles and decision rights, and support the implementation of changes that enable business priorities.

This role will lead a portfolio of organization effectiveness engagements across corporate functions. While organization design is a core capability, the role is broader than design alone. The Director will bring experience in change, strategy, transformation, consulting, and problem solving to help leaders improve organizational performance, navigate complexity, and build the capabilities needed for long-term success.

The role will partner closely with senior leaders, People Partners, Talent, Total Rewards, Change Management, Communications, Workforce Management, and other cross-functional partners to deliver integrated solutions. This position will report to a Senior Director and may include oversight, coaching, and development of one or more direct reports or project team members.

Duties

• Lead organization effectiveness engagements that translate business strategy into clear operating models, structures, roles, governance, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Partner with senior leaders and People Partners to assess organizational performance, identify barriers to effectiveness, and recommend practical solutions that enable business outcomes.
• Diagnose complex organizational challenges using stakeholder input, workforce data, business context, process understanding, and change readiness insights.
• Lead organization design and operating model work where structural change is needed, including work grouping, spans and layers, role clarity, interfaces, forums, accountabilities, and implementation planning.
• Facilitate senior leadership discussions to align on organizational priorities, design principles, options, tradeoffs, decision rights, and implementation implications.
• Partner across Global People and cross-functional teams to ensure organization solutions are coordinated with change management, communications, workforce planning, talent, rewards, and transition activities.
• Develop clear, data-informed recommendations and executive-ready materials that help leaders make decisions in ambiguous or complex environments.
• Manage a portfolio of initiatives operating in parallel, balancing competing priorities, shifting business needs, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Build organization effectiveness capability by contributing tools, methods, frameworks, and repeatable practices that can be applied across corporate functions.
• Stay current on trends and leading practices in organization effectiveness, organization design, transformation, change management, workforce strategy, and operating model evolution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Organization Effectiveness, Human Resources, Business, Strategy, Leadership, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related field strongly preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in organization effectiveness, organization design, change management, transformation, strategy, management consulting, workforce strategy, human capital, or related disciplines, preferably within a large consultancy or human capital practice.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex organizational or business challenges, structure ambiguous problems, synthesize stakeholder and data inputs, evaluate options, and translate insights into practical solutions.
• Strong experience supporting transformation, strategy execution, operating model, organization design, or organizational change initiatives.
• Proven consulting, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including partnering with senior leaders and HR teams in complex, global organizations.
• Ability to develop executive-ready recommendations, narratives, and decision support materials using workforce, organization, financial, and qualitative data.
• Strong project leadership skills, with experience managing multiple workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and shifting priorities.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to navigate sensitive organizational topics in a fast-paced environment.

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is$178,121.00 -$222,651.00per year

The above represents the expectedsalaryrange for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining yourpay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

The position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance

Additional Information:

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance.

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.

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