Organisation Design Partner

Tesco; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking an Organisation Design lead to partner with Exec members and business leaders to design structures and roles that support strategy over the next 1–3 years. You will drive a strategic plan for the Group business, balancing internal and external perspectives.

You will work with leaders to understand requirements, develop OD blueprints, and challenge options with data-led insights while aligning with Tesco’s Service Model and governance processes. Flexible working is supported.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Providing Organisation Design expertise aligned to Group objectives and market needs.
• Developing professional OD blueprints (principles, Work Levels, Job Descriptions).
• Working with leaders to identify organisation design improvements to meet strategy and financial targets.
• Advising leaders with data-led role and structure options aligned to OD principles.
• Designing roles with clear accountabilities and simple ways of working.
• Building relationships with leaders to assess impact on behaviours, skills, culture and communication flows.
• Collaborating with finance partners to align on efficiencies and investments for change.
• Articulating change narratives, benefits and cases for change.
• Leading evaluations to confirm changes are embedded and measured against success metrics.
• Maintaining position governance and accurate data for roles and structures.

Skills

Organisation design

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications & Experience

• 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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