Organisation Design Manager

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supermarket and technology company is seeking an Organisation Design Manager to work with executives and business leaders. The role involves designing organizational structures, driving strategic vision, and responding to market trends. Candidates should have expertise in Organisation Design, change management, and strong analytical skills. Flexible working is supported, and a comprehensive benefits package is offered, including an annual bonus and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme

25+ days holiday

Private medical insurance

Paternity leave

Mental wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience developing structures in large organizations.
• Managing change projects internally or as an external consultant.
• Knowledge of Organisation Design principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide Organisation Design expertise aligned to group objectives.
• Collaborate with leaders to assess organization requirements.
• Design roles with clear accountabilities and workflows.

Skills

Organisation Design expertise

Change management

Strong business acumen

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Collaboration and communication

Resilience

Tools

OrgVue

Job description

Tesco UK • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City • Permanent • Apply by 28-Oct-2025

As the Organisation Design Manager, 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.

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

You will be responsible for

• 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.

You will need

• Organisation Design expertise
• Change management
• Strong business acumen
• Analytical thinking
• Stakeholder management
• Collaboration and communication
• Resilience

Experience relevant for this job

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

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award‑winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

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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