Job Description

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

We are enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model, in which employees spend part of their week connecting with co-workers in our state-of-the-art headquarters. Located in the booming West Loop of downtown Chicago, it's set up to be a global hub that cultivates collaboration:

• Take a class at Hamburger University
• Sample future items in our Test Kitchen
• Utilize the latest technology to connect with your team around the globe

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone.

Job Description

Workforce Transition at McDonald’s involves planning and executing changes in employee roles to support a new organizational structure. This global effort, led by McDonald’s Culture and Organization Effectiveness team and HR Business Partners (HRBPs), works with the Transformation Management Office (TMO) to implement new working methods across teams. A key focus is ensuring that the impact of talent and organizational changes is carefully evaluated with the Value Realization Office (VRO).

As McDonald’s evolves, the team creates detailed plans for workforce transitions to support new functional designs and future organizational states. This process includes developing blueprints, mapping talent movements, and preparing activation plans. The transition involves confirming interim organizational states, making talent decisions, and ensuring all HR processes are ready. Effective communication and change management are critical to moving into the future state organizational model successfully. 

In this role, you will:

• Lead the operating model and organization design activation for large-scale transformation projects, implementing organizational capabilities and structures needed to support the execution of the business strategy
• Define the overall workforce transition strategy, including talent selection and assessment approach
• Oversee quality control artifacts that are developed by the team
• Partner with senior leadership and HR Business Partners to review activation plan / approach and culture; ensuring new ways of working are adopted as intended.
• Navigate ambiguity to define work and direct work for the team, balance competing priorities, drive alignment amidst midstream adjustments.
• Stay up-to-date and informed on trends and innovations in organization effectiveness. Bring to the table new designs, tools, and methods that will help position the organization to grow.
• Support establishing a methodology to unite the organization design, change, HR, and Talent activities required to support the stand up of new capabilities for Modernization programs is needed to ensure successful go-lives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Masters in Organizational Development, Leadership, or related field strongly preferred.
• At least 7+ years of experience in roles responsible for organizational design, development, leadership and people development.
• Ability to set direction, develop and lead talent strategies that are aligned with business strategy including scoping organization components of complex transformations with interconnected workstreams and dependencies.
• Strong project management skills, including a proven track record of leading large, complex projects using standard project management practices and tools; experience with agile project management practices a plus. Ability to engage senior partners throughout a project lifecycle.
• Successful track record of working with C-level leaders. Superior interpersonal, facilitation, communication and consulting skills. Ability to assess needs, influence, collaborate, deliver and partner at the most senior levels in the organization.
• Expert technical knowledge in areas of organization design/ effectiveness, talent management, compensation, change management, and HR processes. Ability to translate business strategies into organizational design challenges and then solutions. Ability to break down silos by creating cross-functional teams to devise comprehensive design solutions that can be more readily embedded into the current environment.
• Previous experience in a large consultancy (strategy, organization, or human capital practices) a significant plus.
• Experience working in large, multi-national corporations in a highly matrixed, complex structure; retail experience a plus. Experience working with many countries and cultures. Understands the needs and challenges of global leaders.

Additional Information

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact [email protected] . Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

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