Global Head of Organizational Effectiveness

As the Global Head of Organizational Effectiveness, you will design and implement solutions that deliver results across a global organization, ensuring alignment between business strategy and people initiatives. You will oversee global programs including culture transformation, performance management, inclusion and belonging, organizational design, and workforce capability building. You will work with business leaders and HR, acting as a strategic partner and trusted advisor, while building capabilities across commercial, operational, and innovation excellence. Meanwhile, you will build future-ready capabilities in skills management, career frameworks, employee value proposition, and AI adoption, enabling the organization to adapt to evolving market and talent demands.

Based in our Pittsburgh HQ and reporting to the Global Head of Talent, you will help shape organizational performance, effectiveness, and capability building. A relocation package may be offered to the ideal candidate. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of Organizational Effectiveness experts, promoting a culture of excellence, coaching talent, and building organizational capability within the team.
• Accelerate culture transformation and deliver measurable improvements in the behaviors needed to drive commercial, operational, and innovation excellence; ensuring adoption across regions, business units and functions.
• Design and implement an enterprise-wide competency framework aligned with business strategy and evolving capability needs.
• Lead the global inclusion and belonging strategy, integrating it across core talent practices and promoting an inclusive culture that drives engagement and performance.
• Strengthen employee listening and engagement approaches, translating insights into clear actions, tracking progress, and promoting accountability across leadership teams.
• Partner with Talent and business leaders to develop an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) to support attraction, engagement, and retention of talent segments.
• Advise executives and HRBPs on organizational design, ensuring alignment of strategy, operating models, and performance goals.
• Provide enterprise-wide change management leadership to ensure successful adoption of transformation programs.
• Help develop AI-related capabilities across the workforce, aligning with future skill requirements and integrating AI readiness into talent strategies.
• Strengthen performance management processes, ensuring clarity, consistency, differentiation, and accountability for results at all levels.
• Lead the implementation of career frameworks that elevate the transparency of career development and internal mobility opportunities for employees globally.
• Design and deploy skills assessment and development solutions aligned with evolving needs.
• Implement programs that enhance leadership effectiveness and team performance, promoting stronger collaboration and accountability across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, OD/OE, Organizational Psychology, or related field; advanced degree desirable.
• 10+ years of experience in Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Development, or Change Management in global organizations.
• 5+ years of experience delivering measurable results through OE strategies and large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience designing simple, scalable, solutions that guide our outcomes in culture transformation, organizational design, and change leadership.
• Experience advising senior executives and influencing decision-making working in matrixed environments and global teams.
• Data and insights capability to translate analytics into applicable strategies.
• Experience driving capability building and transformation related to AI and future-of-work plans.
• Availability to occasionally travel

Benefits like vacation, life insurance, health insurance, retirement/pension plans, will be discussed in the interview process. Hybrid workplace. #LI-Hybrid

How we work: At PPG, we bring teams together to accelerate collaboration and career development, with in-person work Monday through Thursday and the opportunity to work remotely on Flexible Fridays. Schedules may vary by location.

About us: 

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD®

Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG on X. 

The PPG Way 2030  

We are customer champions 

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, move fast and don’t stop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow. 

We act with purpose and speed 

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.  

We are excellent operators 

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, we identify problems, take ownership and always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support our frontline, the faces of PPG to our customers.   

We compete to win 

Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results, embrace new technologies and leverage agility and speed as strengths. 

We are PPG proud 

Strong. United. Passionate. We work safely, act with integrity and value our diverse perspectives. We celebrate achievements and take pride in the positive impact we create together to protect and beautify the world. 

At PPG we use AI in the hiring process to make the process more efficient. AI tools do not make hiring decisions. You can learn more by going to  https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources.  

PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.  

If you need an adjustment due to a disability, please email recruiting@ppg.com. 

PPG pay ranges and benefits can vary by location which allows us to compensate employees competitively in different geographic markets. PPG considers several factors in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, qualifications and education, licensure and certifications, and other organizational needs. Other incentives may apply.  
Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and well-being of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.  Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process. 

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