Group Director Organization Design & Change Enablement

Job Order Template (2026)

Opportunity ID Number: 36599

Job Type: Direct Hire

Job Title: CONFIDENTIAL Group Director, Organization Design & Change Enablement

Client Company: Chanel

Contact: Carolyn Donnelly

Hiring Manager: Kristy Kelsick

Category: Human Resources

Company Industry: Apparel & Fashion Choose an item.

Ownership Structure: Private

Name of PE Firm:

Perm Fee %: ??25%

Search Type: Contingent Exclusive

Pay Rate:

Client Bill Rate:

Anticipated Salary: 190k base – can flex slightly if needed

Bonus: 15%

Vacation Time: ?Yes

Will Relocate: Yes

Job Creation Date: 7/17/2026

Owner BDE/ADM

(Who Won the Sales Presentation): Baylee

Account Manager: Baylee

BDE (Who Got Agreement Signed): Baylee

# of Openings: 1

Type of Client Current Client

Address of Job: 9 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019

Remote: Hybrid 3 in 2 WFH

Published: DO NOT

Reason Why Open: HR org transformation

How long has it been open? 0-1 Week

# of Candidates in Play: 0

# of Competing Firms: 0

How did you get the Job? Existing Client Request

Did Company Originate From Inbound Lead? No

Did Job Come From HS Automation? No

Feedback Timeline/Expectation: 48 hours

Invoice Approver? Carolyn Donnelly

Timekeeper/Approver?

Recruiter on Intake Call: ?? None

Recruiter Assigned? Need

Additional Notes: Grades this one group director level

Area of expertise – org design, partnering with global to refresh the methodology, some pressure testing, how does it shift as they think about AI and things

Someone who understand org design – done it, upskilling others, facilitating it

Not the capability across HRBPS

Need to see maturity in this space and across the HRBPS

Chang management practitioner

Any certification – methodologies – what they build Chanel based on

Supported or lead orgs through transformations – technology, culture, org, and business

COE P&O department – educating and upskilling others

Play a change lead on enterprise wide – support too

Kristy and others have build up Pace, agility, ways of working – scaling and need to sustain

In partnership with strategy and governance team

Meeting optimization, process optimization

Root cause analysis

Needs to continue to be refreshed and updated

Partnership with these teams would fall under this role

Ways of working and simplification efforts

Be familiar with Racey Daycy

Mapping

Understanding

Being able to upskill others and facilitate complex workshops and role model for others and advise

Partnering closely with global – there is a person that oversees org design and liaise with them

Anything building locally is being used globally

It does focus and support US only, but talk to global person

Success in 3 years

Helping with the shift in HR operating model – hoping to unlock for HBRP to play a more strategic role, verse day to day operations

This role will play a key role in enabling this

Want the HRBPs to start to play a change agent role In their respective businesses

Embarking on op model shifts – will e announced early fall/late summer

Oct.nov – transitioning

Practitioner in charge- mobilize, and transform and unlock

Help navigate change

The other role – AI piece – its here and we are working on it

This will help with an adoption stand point

Voices- local employee survey- analytics role will do the working with the data on insights

And this role will look at those as a culture instrument – action planning, turning listening into change

Ultimately – someone who is excited and energized by complexity and ambiguity

Change is exciting

Someone who is resourceful

Kristy used to have this role on her team – been vacant for a year, she’s been supplementing

Has leveraged her previous consulting company

Would love someone with a consulting background or mindset

Need to be agile

They have the methodology, but theres a lot of build to do still

Someone who can navigate complexity, role model change, get others through the change

Lead others through change

Culture- transformation- design – weave it all together

she’s been using consultants for AI integration – US Ai Steer co set up – this role would be someone who can take on these complex things, help stand thing sup

Pieces of governance, be resourceful, figure it out - this mind set

Someone who is excited about project based work too –

Some things they will always own, but will be ask to pull them into projects

Consulting background – can find this easily most likely

Someone who understand the culture transformation at large is fine

Doesn’t have be HR transformation specific

Hope is to upskill the HRBPS to focus on this role in the businesses

And this role would be more strategic – enterprise transformation – not org specific

Industry experience? Retail ideally – but open to other industries

Methodology is usually similar- but more important is dealing with complex stakeholders and high touch and socialization and stakeholder management required- need to have

Hybrid based out of NYC

3 days I the office

Travel – minimum – and some annual trips – London to stay connected globally

Reports directly into Kristy

Compensation:

190k base aiming for this

Bonus potential – grade 12 – ask Carrie to confirm

Bonus confirmed 15% Annual potential