Organisation Design & TOM Lead

AWE plc; Reading; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Starting salary £61,040+

9-day fortnight

270 hours annual leave

Pension 9–13%

Family leave benefits

Job summary

AWE plc in Reading is seeking an Organisation Design (OD) Lead to shape and optimise the operating model, aligning structure, processes, capability, and strategic priorities.

You will lead OD frameworks, TOM governance, and design principles, collaborating with senior leaders to drive value and agile performance across complex environments.

The role also offers a 9-day working fortnight, 270 hours of annual leave, and a competitive pension with flexible career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale organisation design programmes end-to-end.
• Practical experience with OD and TOM methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Experience facilitating organisational change around roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple OD programmes across geographically dispersed or complex environments.
• Capability to develop and apply design principles to shape organisational structures.
• Strong workshop facilitation and executive-level communication.
• Proven leadership skills with resilience to perform under pressure.
• Experience using organisational data and analytics to inform design decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at senior levels.
• Resilience, pragmatism, and comfort working with competing priorities and ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of organisation design and operating model projects across AWE.
• Develop and execute AWE's OD strategy, ensuring organisational structures, capability, and processes align with business needs.
• Design, embed, and maintain OD methodology and tools, including design principles, operating model frameworks, sizing, spans of control and layers.
• Act as guardian of AWE's Target Operating Model, ensuring regular review, optimisation, and alignment to strategic objectives.
• Create and deliver a Teams framework that supports the embedding of new structures and ways of working.
• Conduct periodic assessments of operating model health using analytics and benchmarking.
• Analyse organisational structures and make recommendations on optimal size, shape, skill mix, and value for money.
• Work closely with business leaders to provide insight and guidance on organisational capability and in/outsourcing (Make/Team/Buy) strategies.
• Enhance OD and organisational effectiveness capability across the HR function and leadership population.
• Stay up to date with OD & Target Operating Model (TOM) best practice and bring new thinking into AWE.

Skills

Organisation design

OD methodologies

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

Job description

AWE plc in Reading is seeking an Organisation Design (OD) Lead to shape and optimise the operating model, aligning structure, processes, capability, and strategic priorities.

You will lead OD frameworks, TOM governance, and design principles, collaborating with senior leaders to drive value and agile performance across complex environments.

The role also offers a 9-day working fortnight, 270 hours of annual leave, and a competitive pension with flexible career development opportunities.