Delta Dental Institute

Manager

• Lead through others and partners with executives to provide proactive, strategic consulting in organizational effectiveness and design, employee engagement and experience, workforce planning and talent acquisition, change management, performance, and talent management. Focus efforts where the marginal impact of people decisions is highest, advising on critical workforce, leadership, and organizational choices that drive business outcomes.
• Develop a high-performing team of OE Consultants, providing leadership, coaching, and mentoring to build their capabilities. Ensure the team’s work remains focused on top-of-license, value-creating OE interventions, delivering maximum enterprise value.
• Establish and sustain proactive, strategic relationships as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on organization-related issues. Provide strategic leadership coaching to senior leaders and leadership teams, strengthening their ability to lead through transformation and uncertainty. Guide and influence executives in making better, more confident decisions about workforce and organizational design by helping them evaluate trade-offs, risks, and consequences of talent and organizational options.
• Apply comprehensive systems thinking across multiple business functions to drive alignment of people strategies and programs with business priorities, while proactively minimizing organizational risks. Advise leaders on organizational design, role clarity, decision rights, and team effectiveness to ensure structures and leadership models enable strategy execution. Diagnose systemic organizational issues by focusing on root causes rather than symptoms and developing solutions that address those root causes.
• Lead and model a strong change management mindset, serving as an organizational change subject matter expert to business leadership. Guide leaders and their teams through organizational and team evolution during periods of transformation, growth, or increased complexity. Apply effective change management approaches to enhance stakeholder engagement and ensure successful implementation of organization initiatives, with measurable, sustained adoption of change.
• Oversee and support the implementation of enterprise talent management programs (e.g. performance management, culture and engagement initiatives, talent reviews, succession planning, year-end compensation) within client groups. Partner closely with Centers of Expertise (Talent Management, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Change Management, People Analytics; Enterprise Capabilities & Enablement) to shape and integrate these solutions, ensuring alignment with overall people strategy.
• Lead the sharing of best practices and provide expert analysis, consultation, gap assessments, team facilitations, and solutions for complex organizational issues. Recommend process improvements and enhancements to drive efficiency and effectiveness in OE initiatives, continuously improving methodologies and outcomes.
• Engage in initiatives requiring coordination across all lines of business, operating with an enterprise-wide lens to prioritize decisions and interventions that yield the greatest organizational value over local optimization. Manage assignments of the largest scope and complexity, impacting multiple functions and locations across the organization.
• Synthesize insights from workforce data, organizational diagnostics, and enterprise intelligence into clear, executive-ready perspectives that inform leadership decision-making. Leverage data-driven storytelling to connect people metrics to business outcomes, trade-offs, and risks, ensuring leaders have the information they need to act decisively.

Manager, Organizational Effectiveness

Payroll

• Serve as a subject matter expert for payroll operations, systems, tax compliance, and process improvements.
• Provide operational support to the Payroll Manager while leading complex payroll initiatives, including system implementations, upgrades, tax compliance, reconciliations, audits, and year-end processing.
• Partner closely with Accounting, Human Resources, IT, and external vendors to ensure payroll processes remain accurate, compliant, and efficient.

Manager, Organizational Effectiveness

Senior Payroll Analyst