Organization Design Consultant

About the role

Step into the engine room of global commerce. At APM Terminals Elizabeth, you’ll be at the center of one of the busiest port complexes in North America. Every container you touch keeps freight moving through the Port of New York C New Jersey, supporting critical supply chains across the East Coast and beyond. This is a place where speed, scale, and precision come together. You’ll collaborate with high‑performing teams in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment where safety and operational excellence are the top priorities. Here, your impact is immediate—and global. Why you’ll love it here: Be part of a major gateway on the U.S. East Coast; experience high‑volume, complex terminal operations; work with driven teams in a fast‑moving environment; continuous improvement mindset – where curiosity is encouraged, root‑cause problem solving is valued, and making things better every day is part of how we win.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives, operational changes, and transformation priorities into organization design solutions.
• Lead organizational assessments, design workshops, structure development activities, and implementation planning across selected functions.
• Develop current-state and future-state organizational structures aligned to business requirements, workforce needs, and operating model objectives.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to define organizational accountabilities, governance frameworks, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Create and maintain organization design deliverables including organization charts, role charters, governance models, accountability frameworks, RACI documentation, and decision‑rights matrices.
• Conduct workforce and capability assessments to identify critical roles, future skill requirements, organizational impacts, and talent needs.
• Support workforce transition planning, implementation roadmaps, readiness activities, and phased organizational transition plans.
• Prepare executive presentations, recommendations, discussion papers, and Steering Committee materials while tracking actions, risks, decisions, and dependencies.

Requirements

• 5‑10+ years of experience in Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Transformation, Operating Model Design, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex transformation, restructuring, operating model, or workforce change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in organizational design methodologies, governance structures, operating models, workforce analysis, and capability assessments.
• Proven workshop facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively with senior leaders.

Skills

• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, project management, PowerPoint, Excel, and business writing capabilities.
• Experience within logistics, transportation, manufacturing, industrial operations, infrastructure, or port environments is preferred.
• Familiarity with automation, digital transformation, workforce transformation programs, Lean, Continuous Improvement, ABS, or similar operational excellence methodologies is advantageous.
• Experience working in unionized environments is preferred.
• Hands‑on, pragmatic, adaptable, collaborative, and execution‑focused with the ability to independently drive deliverables through implementation.

Benefits

• Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work.
• Opportunity to contribute directly to a major transformation and organizational change program.
• Exposure to cross‑functional leaders across operations, engineering, finance, labor relations, HR, and transformation teams.
• A collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.
• The ability to influence future workforce capabilities, organizational effectiveness, and readiness for new technologies and automation.

Pay

$80 - $150 per hour (6‑9 month contract)

Schedule

5 days a week in office, Elizabeth, NJ