Senior Organizational Development Consultant

It’s an exciting time to join Oracle as an Organizational Development Consultant (ODC). This role supports Oracle’s technology teams, partnering with Oracle’s leaders to improve, enhance, and evolve our practices to achieve business success through our people and organization effectiveness. Come be part of an Organization & Talent Development (OTD) team that believes in partnering, hard work, knowledge-sharing, and enhancing one’s own skills for what comes next in our business.

Common initiatives for an ODC include:

•   Providing well-honed expertise across a portfolio of specialties including organization design, organization effectiveness, talent management, change management, strategic planning, employee engagement, career development and similar areas
•   Collaborating with others and also working independently to propose, design, develop, implement, and evaluate talent and organization effectiveness strategies to help lines of business win in their markets
•   Enhancing leadership teams’ ability to foster greater engagement and intent to stay, set organizational direction and priorities and expand the capacity of their organizations 
•   Transforming culture through deliberate and meaningful organization change management efforts
•   Aligning business and talent strategies and actions to Oracle’s strategy
•   Facilitating meaningful discussions and action planning with small and large groups - in person and virtually
•   Crafting, launching, and iterating talent, learning and employee engagement programs in a constantly changing environment
•   Helping others pioneer innovative approaches, streamline processes, and simplify work to its most meaningful parts
•   Adopting and using a full suite of Oracle HCM applications to gain business insights and drive data-based decision-making
•   Uniting with HR Business Partners (HRBPs) to influence and accomplish actions in all of the above 
 

Important stakeholders include clients and HRBPs, plus centers of expertise (COE) colleagues spearheading talent management, top talent, and learning & development programs.

An ODC’s common tasks include:

•   Delivering in-person and virtual 1:1, one-to-few, and one-to-many discussions to assess needs, gain feedback, test hypotheses, and implement organization & talent development sessions  
•   Conducting talent reviews using industry-leading platforms 
•   Developing and leading team interventions using MBTI, TKI, 360-degree feedback, competency frameworks, and similar OD tools and techniques
•   Understanding and conveying data using storytelling methods to communicate employee survey insights and results
 

To be a successful ODC, you will:

• Thrive on building strong relationships using an approachable, consultative style
• Be customer-centric
• Act with integrity, thoughtfulness, and speed in a complex, non-routine environment
• Be curious about, seek to understand, and convey the “why”
• Solve business challenges with creativity and proven results!
• Care about transforming our culture toward what’s needed, versus how we’ve always done it
• Treat team results equal to your own results
• Seek out client needs, anticipate challenges, and act pragmatically with flexibility
• Exhibit excellent project management and organizational skills for working independently
• Have command of the English language using stellar verbal and written communication skills, especially when using technology (Microsoft Office, Zoom, Slack)
• Have ten or more years of explicit experience with the above, having been an effective organizational development consultant in some capacity before

If you’re seeking an opportunity to make positive difference with a global tech leader using all the organizational development tools in your toolkit, you’ve found it. Apply today!

Career Level - IC4

Proactively identifies client needs, anticipates challenges, and acts pragmatically and flexibly.  Collaborates with team members to design, develop, and deliver OD interventions , leadership and professional development solutions. Works with Oracle’s senior leaders to implement change, consulting on organization development practices including talent management, team effectiveness, leadership and professional development, and acquisition integration.  Consults with leaders on implementing Oracle’s talent management practices.  Acts in partnership with human resources professionals to develop joint plans and proposals. Uses a well-rounded knowledge of business to accelerate integration of acquired employees and organizations.  Aligns organizational change plans and proposals to Oracle’s strategy. Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external partners. Lead the