Group Organisation Design Partner - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

About the role: Within this role you will work with Exec members, business leaders, directors and managers to design structures and roles for their teams to deliver against strategy. You will drive a strategic vision and plan for how we structure the Group business to succeed and respond to upcoming market and functional trends in the next 1-3 years, based on both internal and external perspectives.

What is in it for you: We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary. Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays). Private medical insurance. 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave. Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing Organisation Design (OD) expertise always thinking about the Group as well as the Market needs, ensuring that decisions made are considered against wider Group objectives / direction of travel.
• Staying curious and keeping up to date with OD best practice both internally and externally and developing professional OD blueprints e.g., OD principles, Work Levels, Job Descriptions.
• Working in partnership with leaders to understand organisation requirements and identify and influence organisation design improvements to fulfil organisation strategy/ objectives and meet financial targets across the next 1-3 years.
• Advising and challenging leaders with well-considered data-led role and structure options and recommendations aligned to OD principles and the Tesco Service Model.
• Designing roles with differentiated accountabilities and simple, clear ways of working.
• Building trusted relationships with leaders to systematically assess the impact of the design on factors such as behaviour, skills, capabilities attitudes, culture, systems, and communication flows; engage and collaborate on inter-dependencies with other People POEs, partnering teams and function change teams.
• Partnering with functional finance partners and working with leaders to align on total efficiencies achieved and/or investments required to make change happen.
• Collaborating with leaders on the case for change, benefits and change narrative.
• Leading evaluation to assess changes are embedded and outcomes evaluated against success measures.
• Adhering to position governance processes to ensure ongoing integrity of roles and structures.
• Working with managers / people colleagues to maintain accurate position data, make amendments to roles and structures and provide insights/trends to business leaders on headcount and structures data.
• Partnering with Strategic Workforce Planning as required to ensure our long-term shape is known and understood with relevant interventions included in annual plans.

You will need:

• Experience of developing structures in large organisations with many cross-functional hand-offs and interdependencies.
• Experience of managing change projects, either internally or as an external consultant.
• Experience of OrgVue is highly desirable but not essential.

About us: You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues. At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support. We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, please reach out for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.