Senior OD Partner in London

Locations: London or Berlin (Hybrid Working Model)

Application Deadline: Monday 2nd March 2026

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About the Role

The Senior Organisational Development (OD) Partner is a strategic consultant and change leader responsible for shaping organisational effectiveness, capability, and culture across the business. This role leads complex OD programmes, partners with HR and/or senior leaders on transformation initiatives, and provides expert guidance on organisational design, change management, leadership effectiveness, and workforce capability. As we establish a new OD function, the Senior OD Partner will play a pivotal role in defining the organisation’s OD approach. This includes designing and embedding OD frameworks, tools, and methodologies, and building OD capability across both HR and the wider business through targeted upskilling, coaching, and knowledge-sharing. The Senior OD Partner is instrumental in diagnosing organisational challenges, designing evidence-based interventions, and ensuring the organisation is equipped to deliver its strategic goals.

Role Responsibilities

• Strategic OD Leadership: Lead enterprise-level OD initiatives that support organisational transformation, culture evolution, and strategic capability building. Partner with senior leaders and/or HR colleagues to diagnose organisational needs and design targeted, evidence-based interventions. Provide expert consultancy on organisational design, workforce planning, and operating model optimisation.
• Establishing OD frameworks, tools and standards: Design, develop, and embed core OD frameworks, methodologies, and tools to support consistent, high-quality OD practice across the organisation. Establish clear standards for OD diagnosis, intervention design, evaluation, and change delivery. Ensure OD approaches are scalable, practical, and aligned with organisational strategy and values.
• Upskilling and Capability Building: Build OD capability across HR teams and business leaders through structured upskilling, coaching, and knowledge-sharing. Develop and deliver training, toolkits, and resources that strengthen OD literacy and confidence across the organisation. Act as a mentor and thought partner to HR colleagues, supporting their growth in OD practice.
• Change & Transformation: Lead complex change programmes, ensuring alignment between people, processes, and strategy. Develop change strategies, communication plans, and stakeholder engagement approaches. Coach leaders to build change leadership capability and resilience.
• Leadership and Team Effectiveness: Facilitate senior-level workshops, team effectiveness sessions, and leadership interventions. Support leadership development priorities in partnership with the HRBP team and the wider People and OD teams. Contribute to succession planning and capability assessments.
• Culture and Engagement: Drive culture-shaping initiatives that strengthen collaboration, inclusion, and high performance. Use employee listening insights to inform organisational priorities and action planning.
• Data Driven Insights: Use organisational diagnostics, data, and analytics to identify trends and inform decision-making. Evaluate the impact of OD interventions and continuously refine approaches.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Act as a key member of the People and OD leadership team driving delivery on our strategic priorities. Foster innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement. Partner with the wider People & OD team, HRBPs and business leaders to co-create solutions for high impact. Use data and insights to measure impact, inform decisions and continuously evolve pragmatic talent strategies. Provide expert advice to HR International, HRBPs and Agile Pool roles as needed.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• Significant experience in OD or a closely related field e.g. change.
• Expert OD capability including organisation design, change management, culture development and leadership effectiveness.
• Strong consultancy and advisory skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
• Demonstrated success in upskilling HR teams or business leaders in OD concepts and practices.
• Experience leading or supporting organisational change programmes.
• Advanced facilitation skills, capable of leading complex workshops, team interventions and strategic planning sessions.
• Experience of designing and embedding scalable OD tools, frameworks and methodologies.
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills to interpret qualitative and quantitative data easily.
• Demonstrable data savvy, analytical and evidence based in approach.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Strong ability to navigate ambiguity and provide pragmatic solutions.
• Strong project management experience.
• Experience working in a complex global matrix environment.
• Degree in Organisational Development, Organisational Psychology, HR, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience) would be beneficial.

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