Opportunity Overview

If you have been searching for an Organizational Development (OD) role with real challenge, opportunity and responsibility, your timing is excellent. Constellation Brands -- the premier global producer and marketer of wine, beer and related beverages -- is seeking a savvy OD Manager with great ideas and strategy development skills to play a vital role in the design, development and implementation of infrastructure for our key global organizational development initiatives.

In this role, you can impact a large, global Fortune 500 company as you become a key member on our Global Development Council and the principal architect of many of our OD programs. These initiatives are a priority within our organization and have garnered the attention of both our Board and Executive team members, offering you the visibility to showcase your critical thinking skills and entrepreneurial acumen before a high level audience and gain broad recognition for your achievements in this area.

Additional Rewards

• Ownership & autonomy -- with the support of the Director and cooperative team at hand, you'll be empowered to really put your mark on our OD strategy and pursue these initiatives.
• Great work environment -- we employ an entrepreneurial culture that invites innovation, creativity, and diversity, along with an interesting mix of left- and right-brain folks who know how to both get the job done and have fun together.
• Career advancement -- you'll gain tremendous exposure to every piece of our OD operations, and this will allow you to augment your skill set and experience. We'll also encourage you to continuously develop personally and professionally so that within a number of years, you'll have the knowledge and capacity to grow into the department Director role.
• Excellent compensation -- in addition to a generous salary, you'll become eligible for stock options, our annual bonus plan, a full benefits package (including a company-matched 401k plan), wine allowance and product discounts, and more.
• Pride -- you'll join a high growth organization that has secured the title of "largest wine company in the world" along with a strong reputation within the greater Rochester community and around the world.

If you don't live in our area, the Fairport/Rochester region -- named as one of Money Magazine's Top 100 Places to Live in America -- also offers its share of rewards, including a comparatively low cost of living, good schools, a great arts scene, and close proximity to wineries and numerous recreational pursuits, including skiing and water activities. Fairport is known as the "Jewel of the Erie Canal" with waterfront allure and small-town charm. In addition to the Erie Canal, the town is close to Lake Ontario, the Genesee River, Finger Lakes and several other destinations. The Rochester metropolitan area, which is considered New York's third largest city and second largest economy, rounds out these provisions with the conveniences, opportunity and culture of big city life.

Our Requirements

• 4+ years experience in Organizational Development in a medium to large-sized corporation
• 2+ years experience as a manager and/or team leader
• Change management experience
• Excellent executive presence and ability to facilitate and present at executive level
• Strong leadership skills - i.e., developing others, encouraging collaboration, effectively managing differences of opinion, delegating appropriately, etc.
• Outstanding project management skills, with ability to manage multiple projects at once
• Strong consultative and diagnostic skills, with the ability to think strategically and make sound, data-based business decisions
• Organizational savvy, peer leadership and influencing skills, with proven ability to focus and deliver appropriate outcomes
• Experience, presence, and flexibility to work effectively with people at all levels, from first level managers to senior executives
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively in a team setting to accomplish assignments
• Ability to travel 3 to 5 times per year, or as needed

Preferred, but not required:

• Masters in OD, HR/OD, or OE
• Certifications in Consulting, OD, Crucial Conversations, Situational Leadership, and/or DISC
• Broad experience across HR disciplines, in multiple organizational settings, and with a variety of internal global customers
• Global corporate headquarters experience

More About Your Role

As our Global OD Manager, you'll report to the Director of Global Learning and Development and join a team that includes an L&D Manager, L&D Specialist, and an Assistant. This is a relatively new department, and although we have the basics in place, we are aggressively building out our structure, strategy and organizational initiatives, which include implementing best practices for our succession planning, executive and leadership development, performance management and other programs. Your role will be to build organizational capability to build our global bench strength. Your responsibilities will entail:

• Managing the design, development, and delivery of global culture measurement and transformation, performance management practices, leadership development, succession, and growth, and organizational development.
• Facilitating key organizational transitions with the global team.
• Serving as an internal consulting lead to corporate and operating company leaders and HR Business Partners to assess organizational development needs.
• Driving the implementation and improvement of succession planning process and tools as well as overall talent management components.
• Administering process and conducting 360-degree assessments and feedback with various organizational levels.
• Planning and facilitating strategy sessions, meetings, and other interventions as needed.
• Managing our Employee Engagement Survey rollout and resultant initiatives.
• Sourcing outside vendors/coaches/facilitators when appropriate.
• Designing and implementing performance management definition, tools, processes and learning for global execution.
• Actively participating in and leading core initiatives for our Global Development Council, which meets quarterly.

Within your first year in this role, we'll look to you to have lead or co-lead a large-scale change initiative, completed our existing continuous improvement initiatives for succession planning and integrated those into our HR operations, and lead strategy development and implementation for at least one of the following: career pathing, leadership position profiles, and/or diversity strategy development.

Keys to Success

Many within our organization recognize the advantages of the changes we have in store. It's important to note, however, (and this should come as no surprise if you are the change management expert we need) that there is a certain amount of persuasion and organizational buy-in that must take place at each stage.

Your success in this position will therefore require outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, strong emotional intelligence and a very high level of integrity to establish trust at all levels, to effectively managing the array of situations that arise during periods of transition, to face the tough conversations head on, and to influence a wide range of individuals over whom you have no direct authority.

Additional qualities and skills essential for success in this role include:

• Strong independent initiative -- we'll looking for someone with high energy, proactive self motivation, and the immense desire to build a world-class OD function practically from the ground up.
• Strategic thinking -- you'll access your critical thinking skills and previous experience with best practices to consult our company leaders, diagnose organizational challenges, anticipate trends, develop strategies and actions that ensure organizational effectiveness and capability, and make sound business decisions that focus on quality and the specific needs of our people and overall organization.
• Solid project management skills -- by remaining accountable, effectively juggling multiple priorities, maintaining keen attention on every detail, and exhibiting excellent follow-through, you'll ensure our OD initiatives continue to progress on schedule. You'll also remain open to others' ideas and work closely with key personnel to get these initiatives efficiently implemented and optimized.
• Team player mentality -- although you will be accountable for your own objectives and will often drive those independently, you'll also contribute to team initiatives, help maintain a collaborative environment, strive to learn from others as well as share your knowledge, and willingly jump in to assist others in the group when there's a need.
• Flexibility -- as you lead these transitions, it will be vital that you are capable of dealing with ambiguity and adapting to change yourself without allowing it to interfere with your productivity. You'll also need to remain flexible in your work schedule since this role will often require long hours in order to accommodate our operations in different time zones, as well as the peaks of heavy work flow that are inherent in our project cycles.

If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity, and you meet the required qualifications, we look forward to hearing from you.

Who We Are

Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ, ASX: CBR), headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer (into the United States) and spirits categories. Constellation is the largest wine company in the world; the largest multi-category supplier of beverage alcohol in the United States and Canada; a leading producer and exporter of wine from Australia, New Zealand and Canada; and both a major producer and independent drinks wholesaler in the United Kingdom.

With more than 250 beverage alcohol brands marketed in nearly 150 countries, Constellation has unequalled breadth, offering consumers their beverage of choice, no matter what the occasion. Since its founding in 1945 as a producer and marketer of wine products, the company has grown through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. In the 1990s, Constellation embarked on its multi-category strategy as a means of achieving a balanced portfolio better able to respond to consumer preferences and to reduce dependency on a single category or geography. This strategy supports stable growth in volume, cash flow, return on invested capital and value.

Globally, Constellation Brands is the largest wine producing company by volume. It is also the third largest U.S. beverage alcohol company based upon retail sales in the food and drug channels. Following the recent join venture between Constellation Brands and Grupo Modelo, our Mexican beer portfolio is the undisputed imported beer leader in the United States, and our North American spirits division ranks among the top in its category.

Today, Constellation Brands has gross sales of more than $5.2 billion annually. It operates more than 60 production facilities, has 9,200 employees worldwide and sells or markets products in North America, South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. For additional information, please visit www.cbrands.com.