Organisational Design Lead - Hybrid & 9-Day Fortnight

AWE; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day working fortnight

Pension scheme (9%–13%)

Family friendly policies: Maternity/P—

Professional development funding

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance (4x annual salary)

Discounts on everyday spending

Volunteer leave policy

Job summary

AWE in Reading is seeking an experienced Organisational Design expert for a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will lead OD projects, partner with senior stakeholders and shape future operating models.

Hybrid working is available with a competitive starting salary from £61,040, plus a comprehensive benefits package and ongoing opportunities to develop capability and embed best practices across the HR function.

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 excellent communication skills, including executive-level engagement.
• Proven leadership skills with resilience to perform effectively under pressure.
• Experience using organisational data and analytics to inform design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of organisation design and operating model projects across AWE, navigating ambiguity and balancing competing priorities.
• 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

Organisational design

Operating model

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Analytics and benchmarking

Workforce sizing

Change management

Executive communication

Job description

AWE in Reading is seeking an experienced Organisational Design expert for a 12-month fixed-term contract. You will lead OD projects, partner with senior stakeholders and shape future operating models.

Hybrid working is available with a competitive starting salary from £61,040, plus a comprehensive benefits package and ongoing opportunities to develop capability and embed best practices across the HR function.