Organizational Design Director - M&A Integration

Gallagher
Rolling Meadows, IL


Welcome to Gallagher - a global community of people who bring bold ideas, deep expertise, and a shared commitment to doing what’s right. We help clients navigate complexity with confidence by empowering businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you’ll find more than a job; you’ll find a culture built on trust, driven by collaboration, and sustained by the belief that we’re better together. Whether you join us in a client-facing role or as part of our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and be part of something bigger. Experience a workplace where you’re encouraged to be yourself, supported to succeed, and inspired to keep learning. That’s what it means to live The Gallagher Way.

Overview

The Organizational Design (OD) Director will provide strategic leadership for establishing an internal organizational design capability with initial focus on M&A integration. This role is critical to defining, implementing, and driving alignment of organizational design processes and approaches to effectively integrate acquired business divisions, branches, and corporate functions. The Director will ensure structures, governance, and talent strategies enable synergy realization and long-term value creation.

How you'll make an impact

  • Build and lead a high-performing organization design function to support enterprise integration and transformation initiatives and enable design methodology consistency across business divisions / functions
  • Lead organizational design approach and processes for M&A, and partner with HR M&A Center of Excellence, Integration Management Offices (IMOs), and Business HR, to execute OD processes and governance.
  • Oversee development and execution of OD deliverables in alignment with business strategies, including design principles, operating models, organizational structures, integration modeling, role profiles, decision-rights frameworks, talent assessment, and workforce transition
  • Drive adoption of data-driven design tools to enable organization modeling/costing, scenario planning, spans and layers, talent synergy tracking and other analytics
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on organizational design implications for M&A and enterprise transformation
  • Provide executive-level and stakeholder reporting on design progress, risks, and talent-related synergies.
About You

  • 10+ years of experience in organizational design, HR transformation, or related field, with significant experience in M&A integration.
  • Strong understanding of operating model design, workforce planning, and change management principles.
  • Proven ability to lead complex integration projects and manage multiple stakeholders across functions.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams, develop talent, and foster collaboration in a matrixed environment.
  • Master’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills with expertise in data-drive organizational design as well as ability to interpret complex data as well as identify and effectively communicate actionable insights.

Preferred Skills

  • Proficiency with organizational modeling, workforce analytics, and data visualization platforms (e.g., PowerBI, OrgVue or similar).
  • Experience in insurance, financial services, or professional services industries.
  • Familiarity with governance frameworks and synergy tracking methodologies.

Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

  • Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
  • Life and accident insurance
  • 401(K) and Roth options
  • Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
  • Educational expense reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

  • Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
  • Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
  • Training programs
  • Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
  • Charitable matching gift program
  • And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Posted 2026-02-24

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