Organizational Design Lead

Ascension; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus incentive

Job summary

Ascension is seeking a Remote-based, full-time professional to partner with HR teams on end-to-end organizational design initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and large-scale intra-company transfers.

The role emphasizes driving workforce stability, role transformation, and capacity management, with data-driven recommendations and executive-level communication. Experience in complex, matrixed healthcare or multi-market settings is preferred.

Qualifications

• Leadership or management experience is preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and data analysis.
• Ability to translate data into executive-ready recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic partner for HR teams in end-to-end delivery of organizational changes.
• Drives operational rigor through workforce stabilization, role transformation, and capacity management.
• Develops standard processes and tools to support consistent HR design practices.
• Analyzes workforce data to identify improvement areas and mitigates risks.
• Communicates progress and updates to stakeholders and end users.

Skills

Leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or related field

Associate degree acceptable with relevant experience

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Location: Remote

Department: Org Design and HR Integration

Schedule: Full-time Days

Eligible for an annual bonus incentive

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Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic partner for Human Resources (HR) teams in ensuring end-to-end delivery throughout the design and implementation of organizational changes. Collaborates with the HR team to embed associate-centric, mission-focused design solutions to achieve goals related to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, closures, and large-scale intra-company transfer initiatives.
• Drives operational rigor through workforce stabilization, talent calibration through structure, and role transformation through enabling a positive associate experience. Provides data-driven recommendations for role alignment, span of control, and capacity management.
• Develops and maintains a standard approach, inclusive of processes, materials and mechanisms, to support consistent practices. Collaborates with key stakeholders to develop mitigation strategies to address risks, barriers and challenges.
• Analyzes workforce data and identifies areas of improvement from the design and mitigates risk. Creates key performance indicators or tracking mechanisms for measuring success and reporting.
• Provides a clear line of sight to end users of progress made toward full design and execution of the design. Develops processes and methods to capture, monitor, and disseminate updates and critical information to key stakeholders.

Qualifications

Education and Work Experience

• High School diploma equivalency with 3 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 2 years of cumulative experience OR 7 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required
• 3 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex organization design engagements from diagnosis through implementation, including operating models, governance, role and accountability design, decision rights, and spans and layers.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and analysis of workforce, financial, operational, or organizational data, with the ability to translate findings into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
• Proven ability to facilitate senior leaders, constructively explore initial requests, navigate competing perspectives, and influence organizational decisions without formal authority.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent engagements in a large, matrixed organization, engaging cross-functional partners early and navigating tension among local, functional, and enterprise priorities; healthcare or multi-market experience preferred.