Consultant, Organizational Development

Job Location

Join our dynamic team in Columbia, SC—an exciting city known for its vibrant culture, rich history, and welcoming community. With a growing business environment and excellent quality of life, Columbia offers the perfect setting for your professional growth and personal well-being.

Skills

• Required Skills and Abilities: Demonstrated ability to design and implement organizational development strategies and interventions. Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and make sound decisions. Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication (oral and written), presentation, and judgment skills. Ability to analyze trends and make recommendations to management. Ability to persuade, negotiate, and influence others. Demonstrated abilities in developing evaluation tools to assess customers, work processes, and final products. Demonstrated consultative abilities in working with a broad/diverse employee population, leadership, and organizational development activities.
• Required Software and Tools: Ability to use standard office equipment. Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, or other word processing, spreadsheet, database software.
  
  

Work Environment

Typical office environment. Work may involve travel between office buildings and some out-of-town travel.

The Team

Our team consists of I/S SRM Business Partner, Compensation, and Communications team, driving organizational development growth through strategic partnerships, people solutions, and communications. We pride ourselves on a small, highly collaborative team culture where team members feel valued, supported, and motivated.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Act as the liaison between SRM and business units, driving people initiatives from hire to retire, including recruiting actions and understanding compensation.
• Support workforce management, succession planning (our Org Health), labor challenges, retention, and growth development by helping identify skill gaps.
• Connect the dots across the I/S organization by leveraging experts.
• Manage conflict resolution effectively.
  
  

Ideal Candidate

• Deep understanding of HR policies, practices, and compensation principles, including incentive design and pay equity.
• Experience translating compensation data into strategic recommendations that support talent and organizational goals.
• Ability to influence and lead through change in complex environments, especially in areas of workforce transformation.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to interpret and leverage complex data to identify organizational needs and inform strategic decision-making.
• Exceptional communication skills—both written and verbal.
• Demonstrate executive presence with the ability to foster engagement and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and adaptable to shifting priorities.
• Business-savvy with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in a strategic OD, HR, or compensation role.
• Strong data analytical skills, particularly in compensation benchmarking and pay equity analysis.
• BP experience with a proven ability to proactively help the business navigate tough and complex situations and provide creative people solutions and recommendations that help move the business forward.