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Hello,

I try to sharpen the terms Role, Position and Organizational unit:

Organizational unit is a real organizational entity (not legal entity, but anything you might find as a sign post on the office corridor, such as "Procurement Germany", "HR xyz Inc.", "Sales directorship Brand 1 EMEA region")

Position is a single employment title. E. g. "Sales director brand 1 EMEA", "Assistant to the Sales director brand 1 EMEA"). In a first attempt you have as many positions in your company as people on the payroll. You might decide to refine the model with "plan positions" and "real positions" when you have people working part-time and multiple people occupying the same plan position. A position is assigned to a single organizational unit it reports to.

A role is something completely different: It describes a set of skills, properties, and/or authorizations required to perform a certain task in a process. It describes the business demand. Every position can be connected to a whole set of roles in which that position may perform. Even "Employee" may be role in the context of a HR process, which pretty much every position will be able to perform in. If a particular HR process applies to all employees, that is the role used in that process. Very often the process owners are the ones owning the roles performing in the processes. It is up to the management to define the positions capable of performing in each role. They have to ensure, that the people occupying each position meet the demands of the roles assigned to that position.

Maybe this idea of demand (role, business) and supply (position: recruiting, personnel development) can convey, why a role is not part of a reporting line.