Organisation Design Manager

POSTING START DATE: 01/04/2025

POSTING END DATE: 14/04/2025

LOCATION: Gaydon- Hybrid

In a commercial role at JLR, you can reimagine the future of modern luxury. In teams focused on extraordinary customer experience, sustainability and forward-thinking. You’ll work alongside strategically-minded problem-solvers supporting the transformation of our iconic house of brands – Range Rover, Defender, Discovery, and Jaguar – and our heritage-rich JLR Classic range. Becoming a proud creator of the exceptional starts here.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This role supports the delivery of the Organisation Effectiveness and Design agenda for JLR, ensuring standards and principles are adhered to with a focus on enabling an effective and efficient organisation design. Operating within a complex and rapidly changing environment, the role aims to define accountabilities, decision making, and structure as a key part of any operating model activity.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• OD Consulting and Diagnostic Analysis: Share methods and models, applying them to various contexts while understanding their advantages and disadvantages. Conduct and document 'As is' diagnostics to inform design requirements and principles.
• Create and Implement Plans: Develop and execute organisation design plans, including the roadmap and people transition plan in line with the 'To be' design. Ensure design work adheres to OD standards and principles.
• Impact and Gap Analysis: Evaluate the impact of new business processes on team structures, job/role design, roles and responsibilities, skills and behaviours, and ways of working. Conduct gap analysis and impact assessments to inform actions and activities for implementing the new organisation design and broader operating model considerations.
• Operating Model Integration and Project Management: Understand the impact on the wider operating model to ensure successful embedding of the organisation design. Manage assigned initiatives using project management techniques to ensure delivery outcomes and work with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of OD components and business change management.
• Industry Knowledge and Data-Driven Decision Making: Apply industry knowledge, organisation knowledge, and best practices when working with internal and external stakeholders and customers. Support colleagues in implementing, using, and compiling data to promote evidence-based decision making and fully cascade project outcomes to ensure actionable insights are delivered.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Project Management and Workshop Facilitation: Manage projects and coordinate the facilitation of workshops to ensure effective planning and execution.
• Organisational Design and Diagnostics: Apply expertise in organisational design for large, complex organisations, conducting diagnostics, analytics, and benchmarking to identify structural weaknesses and generate improvement ideas.
• Commercial Awareness and Future-State Articulation: Demonstrate commercial awareness and the ability to derive an articulated future-state and associated business benefits from a sponsor's initial concept.
• Process and People Improvement: Identify areas for strengthening processes, skills, people decisions, values, reward systems, and leadership styles to support the chosen organisation structure. Develop target operating models aligned with strategic requirements.
• Leadership and Change Management: Lead change initiatives and work at Board and Senior Management levels to drive organisational transformation.

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs. Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role – but you’re interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people’s ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all. At JLR, we are passionate about our people. They are at the heart of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of our global customers and the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work, and reach their full potential.

Find out what to expect at each stage of the process along with some hints and tips. Find out more about working here in our JLR Life Blog: We look after our employees by offering a host of benefits and investing in their talent through award-winning training.