Specialist in Organisational Effectiveness & People & Culture & Business & Commercial Banking

Standard Bank Group; Rosebank; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in South Africa is seeking a Specialist in Organisational Effectiveness within People & Culture. The ideal candidate will have 8-10 years of relevant experience, including expertise in operating models and job architectures. You will be responsible for driving initiatives aligned to business strategy and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance organisational performance. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful growth and effectiveness in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-10 years experience in Organisational Effectiveness.
• 5+ years in operating models, organisational structures, or job architectures.
• Excellent stakeholder collaboration and advisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement organisational structures and workforce capabilities.
• Provide advisory services on organisational effectiveness initiatives.
• Lead solution deployment plans and campaigns for awareness and adoption.

Skills

Organisational Effectiveness expertise

Business acumen

Data analysis

Cross-disciplinary team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Behavioural Science / Business Commerce / Engineering

Job description

Specialist, Organisational Effectiveness, People & Culture, Business & Commercial Banking

• Full-time
• Business Segment: Business & Commercial Banking

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Execute Organisational Effectiveness initiatives by developing and implementing operating models, organisational structures, workforce capabilities and job architectures aligned to business strategy. Use data-driven insights to ensure solutions are market-relevant and cost-effective. Partner with business unit/corporate function/regional teams to understand strategic shifts and translate them into recommendations. Mature job evaluation and architecture practices to drive organisation-wide parity.

Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Behavioural Science / Business Commerce / Engineering.

Experience required

• Minimum 8 -10 years experience within Organisational Effectiveness with evidence of contribution to the People & Culture practice, and with a minimum of 5 years in any of the following; operating models, organisational structures, workforce capabilities and job architectures. Consulting experience is an added advantage.
• Utilise Organisational Effectiveness domain expertise to collaborate with relevant stakeholders in multi-disciplinary teams analysing and understanding the business need and translating this into an execution plan to enable business and functional strategy.
• Must be able to drive the adoption of group-wide Organisational Effectiveness (OE) processes, services and technologies, provide support to business units, group functions, regions and countries increasing the speed and efficiency of operations while contributing to a future-ready, adaptable organisation and workforce.
• Provide advisory services to the business and identify workforce requirements in partnership with People and Culture Business Partners, on organisation effectiveness and change management initiatives.
• Ability to bring together cross-disciplinary teams and facilitate design sessions to create end-to-end solutions that meet workforce and enterprise needs, solve challenges, and drive value for stakeholders.
• Manage conflicting perspectives related to OE practices, bring parties to consensus and a robust conclusion by balancing Group standards, local budget, market pressures and relevant employee relations requirements.
• Execute solution deployment plans; lead campaigns to generate solution awareness and demand by developing collateral materials and conducting presentations, to achieve awareness and visibility of internal offerings/people solutions and adoption thereof.
• Develop, review and adapt job architectures to align to appropriate tiering models in conjunction with job family owners, business partners and relevant OE teams.
• Implement job evaluation practices, understand organisation-wide grading and levelling practices to ensure equity and parity.
• Perform job evaluations and assess fit within architecture for new and existing roles; partner with People and Culture and business leaders to understand work activities and requirements to develop job leveling recommendation.
• Analyse, the integrity of data collated, assessing systems used and reports received to ensure the quality of information gathered and develop meaningful insights to support business solutions.

Adopting Practical Approaches

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Interpreting Data
• Producing Output
• Providing Insights
• Taking Action
• Team Working
• Upholding Standards
• Business Acumen (P&C)
• Consulting Agility
• Employee Centricity
• Organisational Awareness
• Solution Delivery
• Solution Design

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