Organizational Development Specialist

About the role

Based in St. Louis, Core & Main is a leader in advancing reliable infrastructure with local service, nationwide. As a specialty distributor with a focus on water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products and related services, Core & Main provides solutions to municipalities, private water companies and professional contractors across municipal, non-residential and residential end markets, nationwide. With over 370 locations across the U.S., the company provides its customers local expertise backed by a national supply chain. Core & Main's 5,700 associates are committed to helping their communities thrive with safe and reliable infrastructure.

Job Summary

Responsible for support of the design, delivery and evaluation of programmatic organizational development initiatives for specific business units. Provide thought partnership and guidance to HR business partners regarding training and organizational development best practices, instructional design principles, organizational design theory, leadership practices, performance improvement, change management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Partners with HR business partners to assess, design, and implement organizational effectiveness (OE) strategies and tools to ensure strong, business focused programs that support and enhance the business units.
• Develops solutions, tools, and training necessary to deliver best-practice leadership, team-building initiatives, change management initiatives and other organizational development initiatives. Ensures processes are streamlined, efficient and meet business needs. Supports implementation of business initiatives.
• Procures necessary tools/resources to support overall service requirements. Diagnoses potential organizational problem areas using talent analytics data and other sources of data input. Makes recommendations on solutions and interventions based on analysis.
• Creates project timelines and deadlines.
• Develops and monitors project plans. Prepares reports on project plans, milestones, metrics, and budgets to track progress and effectiveness of all programs.

Qualifications

• Must be a minimum of 18 years of age or older
• Must pass pre-employment assessment(s) if applicable
• MA in industrial/organizational psychology strongly preferred or BA and 1-3 years related experience