Global Organizational Design & Effectiveness Director

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Global Organizational Design & Effectiveness Director

Location:

Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, B37 7YN

Company: Goodyear

Location: Remote

The Global Organizational Design & Effectiveness Director is a pivotal leadership role responsible for designing and executing strategic talent and team interventions that strengthen team effectiveness and enable enterprise-wide organizational transformation. This role combines expert facilitation, robust assessment methodologies, and proven organizational frameworks to advance organizational design, leadership development, and the performance of performing teams (HPT).

Functioning as an internal consultant, the Director collaborates closely with HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and senior business leaders to co-create business-aligned, data-driven, and scalable solutions. These interventions are shaped by executive insight and designed to deliver measurable outcomes. By bridging organizational design, team effectiveness, and strategic HR interventions, this role builds internal capability and drives enterprise agility. It plays a vital role in Goodyear’s broader transformation agenda—supporting functional centralization and embedding sustainable OD practices across the organization.

With dual reporting to Director, Global Leadership Development & Learning (India) and Director, Global Talent Management Capability & Strategy (USA), this global role can be remotely placed anywhere in Europe.

Job Duties / Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Organizational Design & Team Effectiveness:

• Establish and align the Organization Design & HPT strategy with business needs and impact.
• Design and implement frameworks, toolkits, and methodologies for organization-wide interventions.
• Align with the talent assessment strategy by partnering with Talent Management and L&D to implement assessments at individual, team, and organizational levels.
• Develop an intake process for talent & team interventions including governance on custom requests and a support matrix indicating who would deliver based on client level / complexity.

Stakeholder & HRBP Partnership:

• Provide strategic consultation and upskilling resources to enable HRBPs/ TM & LD Partner to deliver (consult, facilitate, etc.) organization design and HPT solutions.
• Provide tools and best practices to HRBPs/ TM & LD Partner for organization design and HPT.
• Work closely with COE Leaders/ HRBPs/ TM & LD Partner to identify team performance challenges and design scalable interventions.

Direct Executive Engagement:

• Partner with senior business leaders to assess large-scale or complex restructuring needs and facilitate end-to-end design processes.
• Lead intake & diagnostic sessions with senior business leaders to co-create and deliver transformation to HPT journeys.
• Act as a senior OD point of contact on complex interventions, offering consulting beyond traditional HR support.
• Synthesize executive insights into action plans, frameworks, and corporate-level organizational strategy.

Execution & Impact Measurement:

• Design, develop, and deliver train-the-trainer to TM and L&D Partners and HRBPs for organization design and HPT solutions.
• Deploy and refine team interventions through pilots, workshops, and coaching.
• Track impact through data collection, engagement surveys, and talent metrics, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Continuously refine methods and tools based on feedback, benchmarking, and evolving business needs.

KEY EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, or related field; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 8+ years of experience working in HR, Organization Development, or related function.
• Experience in developing and implementing organization design & HPT strategies that drive business performance.
• Familiarity with 360 assessments, executive assessments, succession planning, and engagement surveys to shape leadership and team effectiveness.
• Exposure to or expertise in Group or team coaching, mentoring circles, peer learning groups, and mentoring as a developmental tool to support capability building and culture transformation.
• Skilled in designing and facilitating team interventions.

KEY SKILLS

• Self-driven and continuous learner ability to align team and talent interventions with business needs and long-term strategy.
• Strong relationship-building skills to partner with Talent and L&D Partners, HRBPs and leaders to implement and sustain high level and complex interventions.
• Ability to drive team-level behavior change through coaching, facilitation & consulting.
• Experience in collecting, analyzing & leveraging data insight to refine talent strategies.
• Comfortable navigating complex organizational challenges and adapting interventions to evolving business needs.
• Understanding of organization dynamics to design interventions & guide groups through processes.

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Goodyear is one of the world\’s largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 53 facilities in 20 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to .

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