Vice President Organizational Development
Johnson Controls
Job Description
Role Purpose
The Vice President, Organizational Development (OD) is the enterprise product owner for how we design, align, and evolve the organization to win. This leader defines and delivers world-class organization development products that solve real business and talent challenges at scale. They set the vision, roadmap, and standards for:
Strategic Workforce Planning
Organizational Design
Change Management
Culture Shaping
The VP, OD ensures these are not ad hoc “HR programs,” but enterprise products embedded into the operating cadence of the business — integrated into long-range planning, budgeting, goal setting, performance management, and talent reviews. This role brings deep subject matter expertise, product management discipline, and practical execution capability to ensure our organizational infrastructure accelerates growth, builds capability, and enables sustained results.
Why Join JCI Now
This is a rare opportunity to:
Join a 140 year new company undergoing a significant transformation, powered by a lean business system and talent system engine
Be a leader in a compelling growth story backed by strong market trends and a right to win in 3 verticals – decarbonization, mission critical environments, and AI driven economy with explosive data center growth
Shape an enterprise talent system at scale (90,000 employees globally) from the ground up
Partner directly with CHRO, Business Leaders, and HR Leaders who believe talent and organizational capability is a key part of our winning formula
Build organizational development products that will ensure we have the right people in the right roles with the right skills at the right time and cost to drive high performance
Leave a lasting enterprise legacy
What you will own:
Enterprise OD Product Portfolio
Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) – Enterprise Product
Build SWP playbook and methodology
Integrate into long-range planning (LRP), budget, workforce capacity plans, and KPIs
Review of capability progress within talent reviews and succession processes
Create and manage clear enterprise standards and tools
Integrate with workforce analytics to predictively plan for skills and capabilities required
Organizational Design – Enterprise Product
Build Org design playbook and methodology
Establish role/work design methodology to adapt roles in the age of AI augmentation
Establish span/layer guidance and efficiency benchmarks which inform org design
Establish org design governance and roles and responsibilities
Change Management – Enterprise Product
Establish enterprise change methodology playbook
Build change leadership toolkits and communication frameworks
Drive adoption of change measurement and reinforcement systems
Culture Shaping – Enterprise Product
Build culture shaping playbook and leader enablement materials to assist leaders with translating behaviors into operating norms
Establish cultural diagnostics and reinforcement mechanisms
2.Product Vision & Governance
Defines what “winning” looks like for each OD product
Establishes roadmap and prioritization
Creates and manages enterprise standard work
Defines governance model
Ensures products solve real business and talent problems
Measures adoption, impact, and value creation
3.Capability Build Across HR & Leaders
Designs products to scale through HRBPs, Talent Partners, and business leaders
Builds capability across HR to deploy OD tools effectively
Creates leader-facing materials that enable self-sufficiency
Establishes standard work and leads training for consistent application
4.Team Leadership
Leads a small, high-caliber team responsible for:
Product design and iteration
Tool development
Capability building across HR and Business Leaders
Implementation support
Analytics and measurement
Continuous improvement
Ideal Background and Experiences:
10+ years progressive strategic HR work across Organizational Development, Organization Effectiveness, Learning, HR business partnering, or Talent Management
Proven experience leading organizational change and capability building products at scale
Designed and implemented a Strategic Workforce Planning framework embedded into budget and operational planning
Led complex organizational design initiatives across multiple functions or business units
Built enterprise change management capability
Experience working directly with senior executives on org capability and design
Demonstrated product mindset (vision, roadmap, iteration, standard work)
Experience creating scalable playbooks and governance frameworks
Ability to define success metrics and measure impact of work product
Integration of workforce strategy with finance and operating planning cycles
Built and led small, high-performing expert teams
Influenced without authority across matrixed organizations
Elevated HRBP capability through consistent tools and standards
Leadership Attributes & Behaviors
Enterprise-first, strategic, systems thinker who sees connections across planning, talent, performance, and org structure
Business-first orientation by solving for business value, not theoretical elegance
Courageous leader with a strong drive to win, willing to challenge legacy thinking and reinforce accountability for performance
Domain-credible operator with the ability to design, govern, and scale complex global systems in matrixed environments
Decisive executor who balances rigor with pragmatism and brings disciplined operational and governance mindset
Clear, influential communicator who builds trust and effectively engages executives, leaders, and teams at all levels
Talent-focused leader who attracts, develops, and mobilizes high-performing teams and builds organizational capability
Comfortable leading through ambiguity, transformation, and change while meeting the business where it is
Systems thinker — sees connections across planning, talent, performance, and org structure
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Behaviors expected of all JCI colleagues:
We Focus on What Matter: We go to Gemba to learn closest to where the work happens so that we can remove obstacles and deliver for our customers where it really matters.
We Win as One Team: We deliberately think and act in ways that welcome different perspectives, build trust, remove silos, and help each other navigate change in service of winning more customers.
We Improve Everyday: We seek the truth with humility, surface problems early, and challenge each other with candor and respect to solve customer problems through continuous improvement.
We Own the Outcome: We take accountability and decisive action, translating strategy into actions that win the right way with safety and integrity first.
What Success Looks Like
Organizational design ensures leaders and colleagues have clear role clarity, capabilities, and decision rights
Strategic workforce planning (SWP) informs action planning, investment, and talent decisions
OD products deliver measurable business and workforce outcomes
HRBPs operate as strategic advisors, leaders lead organizational development initiatives
First 12 Months – Foundation & Early Adoption
SWP playbook designed, approved, and integrated into enterprise planning cycles
Enterprise org and role/work design frameworks codified and governed
Clear roles, responsibilities, and governance models established
Initial pilots executed with measurable insights delivered
Leader and HRBP toolkits launched with early adoption metrics tracked
24 Months – Scale & Impact
SWP fully embedded enterprise-wide and linked to investment decisions
Workforce risks, bench strength, and capability gaps proactively managed
Org effectiveness improvements demonstrated (spans, layers, role clarity)
Leaders independently using change and culture toolkits
OD products clearly accelerate strategy execution and reduce workforce risk