Organisational Effectiveness Senior Manager

End Date

Friday 21 August 2026

Salary Range

£85,493 - £100,580

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Organisational Effectiveness Senior Manager

SALARY: £85,493 - £100,580

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds & London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Organisational Effectiveness Senior Manager to join our Future Ways of Working team.

This is a high-impact role at the centre of shaping the future of how our organisation operates. As an Organisational Effectiveness Senior Manager, you’ll work with Executive Directors, HR Directors and senior business leaders to define and deliver the most strategically important organisational priorities.

You’ll play a critical role in designing how the organisation is structured and operates—ensuring it is set up to deliver business strategy, improve organisational health, and unlock sustainable performance. From operating model redesign to large-scale transformation, your work will directly influence how teams collaborate, make decisions, and deliver outcomes across the Group.

What you’ll be doing

• Partner with Executive Directors and HR leaders to shape the organisational effectiveness agenda and prioritise key pivotal initiatives

• Identify and define high-impact organisational effectiveness opportunities that drive measurable business outcomes

• Design and implement future-fit operating models, organisation structures and ways of working aligned to business strategy

• Provide evidence-based insight and challenge to senior leaders to support major organisational decisions

• Lead large-scale organisation design and operating model transformation programmes end-to-end

• Guide and coordinate matrix teams of functional specialists and business representatives to deliver target state designs

• Bring external insight and leading practice to evolve organisational effectiveness approaches

• Build organisational effectiveness capability by coaching People Partners, OE managers and business leaders

Why join us?

We’re transforming how we operate to meet the needs of the future—and this role puts you at the centre of that journey. You’ll work on meaningful, organisation-wide challenges, helping senior leaders shape how teams are structured and perform. With exposure to complex programmes and senior partners, this is an opportunity to build your expertise, expand your influence, and make a tangible impact on business outcomes.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience leading large-scale organisational design and operating model transformation programmes in complex organisations (typically 8+ years)

• Deep expertise in operating model design, organisation design and organisational effectiveness methodologies (from consulting or industry)

• Strong data analysis and modelling capability, including experience working with and presenting workforce data using tools such as Excel, Power BI or similar

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior partners (Executive level) and provide constructive challenge in a matrix environment

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to align organisational design decisions to business strategy and performance outcomes

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience applying organisational health frameworks and efficiency metrics

• Background in management consulting or enterprise-wide transformation environments

• Experience coaching or developing organisational effectiveness capability in others

This is a place for you…