Organisational Development Manager

Department: Human Resources

Location: London or Manchester

Clyde & Co is full of exciting opportunities to take on new challenges and realise your potential. Thrive in a supportive and collaborative culture, empowered to do your best work, alongside smart, grounded colleagues. If you’ve got a growth mindset, are committed to delivering your best and invested in others, here you can play a big part in winning team.

The Team

Our global Organisational Development (OD) team is dedicated to shaping a thriving, high-performance culture that drives employee engagement, retention and the achievement of firm objectives. Blending deep OD expertise with a consultative approach, our work balances the delivery of global strategies with bespoke solutions tailored to local needs. Guided by our core values, we aim to cultivate impactful ways of working that enhance the employee experience at every stage.

Since January 2023 our team has grown into a dynamic five-strong group of psychologists, behavioural scientists and communications experts, bringing deep insight to support the firm’s growth and evolution. While currently based across the UK, our remit spans every region of the global firm. We’re a committed, collaborative team who enjoy what we do and believe a good sense of humour makes us even better at it!

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Organisational Development, the OD Manager will design and implement impactful cultural and people engagement strategies, based on data insight and external best practice. Building upon their experience of people change techniques, they will work collaboratively with a range of internal stakeholders to understand, recommend and embed solutions with a people focus. This fast-paced role involves the management of and direct involvement in concurrent projects and initiatives.

Example current projects:

• Roll out of an internally-designed team effectiveness toolkit
• Implementation of a global colleague awards process
• Analysing data and driving action in the upcoming September annual engagement survey
• Supporting an overseas practice group with a bespoke culture initiative
• Collaborating on the implementation of a recognition platform
• Providing behavioural science insights to nudge colleague behaviour

Key Responsibilities

• Ideating, designing and implementing culture and people engagement strategies, aligned to global and regional business objectives
• Consulting and partnering with stakeholders and teams across the firm (especially HRBPs) to understand issues and co-create tailored solutions
• Preparing and delivering people engagement and experience surveys, including planning, survey preparation, analysis, reporting and action identification
• Expert utilisation of the firm’s listening survey technology, including the quality assurance of data, survey administration and providing support for platform users
• Proactively gathering and analysing data from a variety of sources and using research methodologies to diagnose issues and generate deep insights into the unique contexts within the firm
• Preparing materials and presenting reports, papers and proposals for senior audiences such as the Management Board, Regional Boards and HR Management Team
• Drafting people-centric internal communications for engagement and cultural initiatives, working alongside communications specialists as required
• Concurrently managing and contributing to projects to ensure delivery to time and quality, involving multi-disciplinary team members and external consultants
• Measuring the impact of delivered work through data gathering and established evaluation techniques
• Facilitating, presenting and leading meetings and workshops as required
• Staying abreast of updates and working collaboratively with other teams such as HR Operations, Learning & Talent Development, Internal Communications, Diversity & Inclusion and Business Development across all regions
• Keeping up to date with external people trends and OD best practice

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in organisational development and change management in complex environments
• Proven ability to drive employee engagement through diverse methodologies
• Strong professional judgement and interpersonal skills for navigating sensitive or complex issues
• Collaborative, global mindset with effective consulting and stakeholder management skills
• Supportive team player
• Skilled in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and data analysis
• Commercially astute with an outcome-focused, delivery oriented approach
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and deliver at pace
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills
• Proficient in digital tools, including PowerPoint and data visualisation platforms
• Practical understanding of HR application
• Creative thinking (desirable)
• Experience in corporate communications and storytelling (desirable)
• Management consulting experience (desirable)
• Organisational psychology or behavioural science background (desirable)

Our Values

Our Values Are The Principles That Guide The Decisions We Make, Unite Us In Our Endeavours And Strengthen Our Delivery, For Our Clients And Our Firm.

• We Work as one
• We excel with clients
• We celebrate difference
• We act boldly

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.