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At a glance

• Working pattern/flexible working - This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home and the London/Bracknell Head Office. However, there will also be an expectation to visit other locations as the need arises.
• Salary range - The salary range for this role is set at £69,300 - £110,500
• Contract type - This is fixed-term contract until end March 2025 (internally known as a secondment)

About the role

The Organisation Effectiveness team have an opportunity for an Organisation Design Lead for a fixed-term contract/secondment until end March 2025.

As one of four Organisation Design Leads, a large part of your role will involve People Managing a team of Organisation Design Managers and Consultants, working on Projects across the Partnership. You will be accountable for the performance, coaching and mentoring of the team, ensuring task management is delivered to project and policy specifications and timelines.

You will be responsible for collaborating with business leads to diagnose and design organisation change, including shaping the Partner Approach and coordinating across the People and Employment legal teams to ensure the effective delivery of these projects. As part of this you may sit on various project steering committees providing People function leadership and ensuring requirements are understood and delivered by the broader People team. You will need to be able to have an impact influencing senior stakeholders to ensure the right outcomes for the business.

As part of this role you will be responsible for the shaping and delivery of best practice approach, processes and systems in respect to Organisation Design and Delivery and ensuring these are adopted across the People team.

The ability to swiftly develop and apply knowledge and expertise will be of primary importance, whilst effectively being able to adapt your approach and style of leadership depending on your audience and situation.

At a time of transformation in the Partnership you will also need to be comfortable with ambiguity and be prepared to be flexible in your role and agile in the use of insight and feedback to prepare for and react to the changes that come along. You should be comfortable and confident to re prioritise where necessary.

Please note: Previous HR experience is essential for this role.

What you'll be doing?

In this role you will share collective responsibility with other Partners in the

same role for:

● Managing (People Management and Task Management) a team of

Organisation Design Managers and Organisation Design

Consultants

● Providing leadership and support for Partners to enable them to deliver their role

outcomes

● Supporting them in their personal and professional development,

● Prioritising their activity and ensuring outcomes are delivered to

agreed standards and timelines

● Being the escalation route for Partners when needed.

● Lead Partners within multi-disciplinary and matrix teams to achieve and deliver

work, in line with business outcomes and with the voice of the Customer at the

heart of decision making.

● Lead the scoping and definition of Partner and organisation change requirements, during

business shaping and assessment of change, feeding these into the People

profession impact and People team Portfolio of change.

Lead shaping and design of the required Partner Approach, ensuring all policy, legal and Partner experience requirements are met.

● Lead deployed OD resources through agreed change initiatives and associated Partner Approach (typically across multiple ED areas) ensuring organisation design and Partner

change activity achieves business outcomes and supports organisation

effectiveness.

● Work with business change teams (T&C, Change Profession, Internal Communications) and the People team to improve effectiveness of end-to-end change in the Partnership.

● Lead the development of Organisation Design & Development practice across

the Partnership.

Collaborating with the broader extended People Leadership Team to drive performance of the People team and enable delivery of our Partnership Plan.

You also can view a copy of the full job outline:-

External applicants - please view the attached job outline

Internal applicants - please use your internal email address to view this folder:-

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Essential skills you’ll need:-

● Previous HR experience

● Project/Programme management skills & capabilities

● Extensive People management experience

● Experience of shaping and delivering change

● Senior stakeholder management

● Coaching & development skills

● Comfortable with ambiguity, seeking out different perspectives and adapting

Desirable skills you could bring:-

● Previous HR leadership experience

● Organisation design and development practice and leadership experience

Benefits of the Partnership and the role

You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose

The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)

Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

Health Care cover

Car allowance

Find out more about the extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us on our website under About the Partnership; Benefits.

Important Information - Application and Interview Process

The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 1 stage virtual interview.

You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, therefore, we recommend you apply early.

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Please note as this position is a secondment, the successful Partners benefits will remain unchanged

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