Organisation Design Lead in Milton Keynes

AWE is looking for an experienced Organisational Design professional to join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract, providing additional expertise and capacity across our busy and varied portfolio.

Location: Located in Reading, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £61,040 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

You’ll play an important role in delivering key activities, partnering with stakeholders and bringing your experience to complex and evolving pieces of work.

Alongside delivery, you’ll help strengthen our internal capability by sharing your knowledge, developing others and embedding effective approaches that support the team for the future.

Key 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at senior levels.
• Resilience, pragmatism, and comfort working with competing priorities and ambiguity.

Benefits

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
• Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Security Clearance

You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

Culture and Values

We recognise that great people don’t always 'tick every box'. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work.

We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us. If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE.

We are at the start of a once in a generation - possibly two generations - programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects - some of which have never been done before. Find out more on our website.

We are an Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award Employer.

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