Head Organisation Design at Old Mutual

Job Description

• Responsible for designing, developing and applying Organisation Design tools, frameworks, processes, standards and contributing to drive organisational effectiveness through a range of levers including but not limited to Human Capital strategy, Organisation Design, Career Architecture, enabling an agile and fit for purpose organisational design that enables the organisation’s strategy. This includes the Future of Work and executing on effective Human Capital organisational integration during organisational transformation and initiatives across Old Mutual Limited.

Key Result Areas

Organisation structure design

• Define governance, policies, and frameworks for Organisation Design across Old Mutual. Ensure that these initiatives are socialised across the Human Capital community.
• Review proposed structure changes and approve if they meet the required standards. Recommend alternatives to the Human Capital Community and business.
• Oversee the organisation wide review of organisation design on a Pan African basis. This involves creating governance, methodologies, standards and norms in line with market practice.
• Provide subject matter expertise in redefining / designing organisational structures.
• Identify opportunities for cost efficiencies in driving optimal structures in line with agreed norms and standards.
• Provide input into people change plans by reviewing the plans presented and providing qualitative feedback on the approach and project steps that should be taken.
• Develop post-implementation analysis tools and ensure that they are used effectively by the Organisation Design Specialists and Human Capital Business Partners (HCBPs).
• Implement methodologies across the group.
• Involvement and subject matter expert in restructuring of business segments and countries.
• In partnership with the Head of Change, drive people change capabilities.
• Regarded as the subject matter expert on the creation of optimal structures linked to strategy and value chains.
• Involved in Operating Model design and concept designs of organisational structures.
• Review the areas of our organisation where we have inconsistencies in spans of control and layers

Building the basics: 

• Implementation of the Old Mutual career architecture framework with the embedment within Workday.
• Develop governance on managing org hierarchy across the organisation, creation of roles, movements, job changes, titling and Workday implications.
• Organisation Design Capability Build
• Build Organisation Design capability across the Group through the build of pragmatic tools, techniques and conducting training sessions and masterclasses.
• Oversee the establishment of a community of practice to sustain the capability build.
• Oversee the channel or platform to house toolkits and templates for the broader HC community.

Manage the Organisation Design team

• Enable the Organisation Design Specialists to assist in restructures across the organisation on a pan African basis.
• Oversee and drive project plans to assist in embedding Organisation Design as a key business imperative.
• Oversee the cleanup of organisational units in providing a current state analysis, to-be designs, defining generic roles, aligning naming conventions, etc.
• Motivate employees in the team and ensure that their efforts are recognised at the appropriate levels.

Job Evaluation

• Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the job evaluation process and job grading system to determine whether it continues to serve business purpose. Develop business cases for change and present to the HC Leadership Team for decision making if required.
• Conduct job evaluations and ensure that governance is followed. Review all requests for appointment into senior level roles to determine whether proper governance was followed around job evaluation of those roles prior to the appointments.
• Provide advisory support to the HC Community and business on levels of work and grading.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications, Experience required 

• Post-graduate Business qualification 
• Human Resources/ Business Management/ Industrial Psychology Degree
• Minimum 10 years’ specialist experience in Organisational Design in complex organisations
• Minimum 5 years managing a team of specialists 
• Proven experience influencing challenging stakeholders and gain alignment and buy-in
• Proven experience in recognised Organisation Design methodologies and principles but can find a fit for purpose solution
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to think outside of the box
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Solid experience in business process mapping
• Experience in working with diverse stakeholders
• Detail orientation essential
• Agility and adaptability to rapidly changing environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to deliver under pressure