Group Organisation Design Partner - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Tesco; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a senior Organisation Design specialist to work with Exec members and business leaders to design structures and roles that deliver strategy. You will drive a strategic vision and plan for how we structure the Group over the next 1–3 years, based on internal and external perspectives.

You will develop OD blueprints, stay current with best practice, and partner with leaders to align design with Group objectives and financial targets, providing data-led options and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Experience of developing structures in large organisations.
• Experience of managing change projects.
• OrgVue is highly desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Design structures and roles for teams to deliver against strategy.
• Drive a strategic vision and plan for Group structure over 1–3 years.
• Provide Organisation Design expertise aligned to Group objectives.
• Develop OD blueprints, principles and Work Levels.
• Partner with leaders to identify improvements and meet financial targets.
• Advise leaders with data-led role options and recommendations.
• Design roles with differentiated accountabilities and clear working methods.
• Build trusted relationships to assess impact on behaviour, skills and culture.
• Collaborate with finance partners on efficiencies and investments.
• Maintain accurate position data and provide insights on headcount.
• Coordinate with Strategic Workforce Planning for long-term shape.

Skills

Organisation design

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Data-driven decisions

Tools

OrgVue

Job description

Within this role you will work with Exec members, business leaders, directors and managers to design structures and roles for their teams to deliver against strategy.

You will drive a strategic vision and plan for how we structure the Group business to succeed and respond to upcoming market and functional trends in the next 1-3 years, based on both internal and external perspectives.

• Providing Organisation Design (OD) expertise always thinking about the Group as well as the Market needs, ensuring that decisions made are considered against wider Group objectives / direction of travel.
• Staying curious and keeping up to date with OD best practice both internally and externally and developing professional OD blueprints e.g., OD principles, Work Levels, Job Descriptions
• Working in partnership with leaders to understand organisation requirements and identify and influence organisation design improvements to fulfil organisation strategy/ objectives and meet financial targets across the next 1-3 years.
• Advising and challenging leaders with well-considered data-led role and structure options and recommendations aligned to OD principles and the Tesco Service Model.
• Designing roles with differentiated accountabilities and simple, clear ways of working.
• Building trusted relationships with leaders to systematically assess the impact of the design on factors such as behaviour, skills, capabilities attitudes, culture, systems, and communication flows; engage and collaborate on inter-dependencies with other People POEs, partnering teams and function change teams.
• Partnering with functional finance partners and working with leaders to align on total efficiencies achieved and/or investments required to make change happen.
• Collaborating with leaders on the case for change, benefits and change narrative.
• Leading evaluation to assess changes are embedded and outcomes evaluated against success measures.
• Adhering to position governance processes to ensure ongoing integrity of roles and structures.
• Working with managers / people colleagues to maintain accurate position data, make amendments to roles and structures and provide insights/trends to business leaders on headcount and structures data.
• Partnering with Strategic Workforce Planning as required to ensure our long-term shape is known and understood with relevant interventions included in annual plans

• Experience of developing structures in large organisations with many cross-functional hand-offs and interdependencies
• Experience of managing change projects, either internally or as an external consult
• Experience of OrgVue is highly desirable but not essential

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At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.