What is the opportunity?

The Organizational Effectiveness team is RBC’s Center of Excellence supporting businesses and leaders with Organizational Design and Change Management. We collaborate with HR Business Partners, HR Centres of Expertise, and colleagues in the business/functional teams to build resources and provide advisory support for small to medium initiatives and facilitate complex enterprise-wide programs.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Organizational Effectiveness, the Director, Organizational Effectiveness will work with talent partners and business leaders on organizational design, change management and workforce transformation to enable RBC to drive key business priorities.

What will you do?

• Work with colleagues in HR, business and senior leaders as part of a fast-paced and high-performing team to enhance performance and outcomes across business units, platforms and the Enterprise overall.
• Strengthen RBC’s effectiveness and efficiency through the continued development and deployment of organizational effectiveness (OE) capabilities by leading high priority Enterprise initiatives related to Organization Design and Change Management
• Utilize your extensive consulting experience to initiate, design and deliver large complex Organizational Design and Change Management initiatives by applying structured methodologies and approaches.
• Act as a trusted advisor in OE areas of expertise to support credible recommendations and the ability to provide advisory support.
• Able to identify key data sources for business case development, work with large data sources, and perform analysis.
• Manage relationships with HRBP and Senior Executives to define scope of work and provide recommendations to apply OE methodologies and services to enable the Talent Management and business objectives.
• Contribute to the continuous development and evolution of OE practices and capabilities, providing input and support to the evolving and expanding RBC OE methodologies, frameworks and tools
• Lead projects from planning to implementation: Deliver recommendations to an actionable level of detail, and measure against key performance indicators.
• Develops effective communication strategies and tactics to deliver the findings and solutions helping drive to alignment

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• Passion for Organizational Effectiveness and building high performance teams.
• Knowledge of Organizational Design and Change Management practices, processes, and implications.
• Ability to advise senior leaders and implement programs in all areas of organizational effectiveness.
• Able to successfully effect change in a matrix organization and ability to manage the successfully transition from current to future state.
• Consulting toolkit with the ability to work and think strategically.
• Experience in breaking ambiguous problems into component parts, identifying logical methods to solve them and assessing business opportunities and impact.
• Ability to facilitate complex problem-solving sessions with varied stakeholders groups to drive to solutions.
• Capability to get things done in a variety of circumstances and the ability to utilize assigned resources and RBC SMEs to achieve or exceed planned outcomes.
• Strong communication, presentation and storytelling skills (oral and written) with the ability to express ideas clearly and concisely to senior audiences

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Job Skills

Analytical Thinking, Change Management, Organizational Consulting, Organizational Development (OD), Organizational Effectiveness, Problem Solving, Solid Business Acumen (Inactive), Stakeholder Management

Additional Job Details

ROYAL BANK PLAZA, 200 BAY ST:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeHUMAN RESOURCES & BMCCRegularSalaried2025-06-062025-06-20

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.