Job architecture is often seen as a talent initiative—focused on clarity, career paths, and title alignment. But its true value reaches much further. When thoughtfully designed, a strong job architecture becomes a foundation for operational excellence, streamlining workflows, integrating systems, improving financial alignment, and driving consistency across the enterprise.

In this session, leaders from Cargill and Yale New Haven Health System share how they built job frameworks that balance structure and flexibility while strengthening both people and performance outcomes. Through these contrasting case studies—one from a global manufacturing network and the other from a complex healthcare system—you’ll gain a practical view of how job architecture can deliver clarity, equity, and efficiency across diverse environments.

Key Takeaways

• Understand how job architecture impacts not just talent and career pathing but also operations, finance, and technology integration.
• Learn strategies to balance standardization with local or functional flexibility.
• Discover how to gain leadership buy-in by connecting job architecture to measurable business outcomes.
• Take away real-world lessons from Cargill and Yale New Haven Health System's experiences to guide your own modernization efforts.