Senior Manager: Organizational Development at BDO South Africa

Responsibilities

The OD Consultant will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and take responsibility for the following:

• Analyse, review and design clients’ business structures and functions to stimulate growth and business development.
• Advise clients on business process optimisation.
• Design and implement remuneration, reward and recognition strategies.
• Design and implement change management strategies, processes and interventions.
• Advise on leadership development strategies and interventions.
• Analyse required competencies and develop competency frameworks
• Conduct job analysis and profiling.
• Advise on career frameworks, succession plans, employee retention strategies and virtual workplace strategies.
• Design and facilitate team development interventions.
• Design, audit and provide training on performance management solutions.
• Analyse data, develop and implement strategies to increase employee engagement levels.
• Provide customised training in areas of team development and organisational effectiveness.
• Administer and coordinate the psychometric assessments process to inform interventions to build effective organisations and teams.
• Provide Talent Management consulting services and solutions.
• Develop, review and implement policies and procedures.
• Provide organisational and people analytics solutions to inform people-related business strategies.
• Develop new business by contacting potential clients, making sales presentations, and writing proposals.
• Ensure that solutions and interventions are implemented in a high quality and timely manner and identify measurement factors accordingly.
• Ensure that client needs are understood and met by diagnosing, researching and validating the clients’ needs.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with clients and other critical stakeholders.
• Achieving agreed annual revenue targets.
• Growing the OD Divisions footprint by promoting, marketing and selling its services.

Assuming responsibility for the Industrial Psychology Learnership program.
KNOWLEDGE, Skills AND COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Understanding of related policies and legislation.
• Ability to work in fast paced and pressurised environments.
• Compensation and benefits knowledge.
• Analytical and numerical ability.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Comfortable and experienced in managing ambiguity and operating in a self-directed manner.
• Problem solving abilities.
• Ability to interact with all levels within the organisation.
• Proactive.
• Customer orientation.
• Report writing, research and benchmarking skills.
• Ability to produce a high-quality work product and collaborate with others to deliver a superior client experience.
• Team building.
• Knowledge of career coaching techniques and employee development plans.
• Results oriented.

Advantageous Skills

• Multi-industry experience preferred.

Additional Information

• Willingness to travel.

Qualification

• Masters Degree – Industrial Psychology.
• Registration with the HPCSA as an Industrial Psychologist.

Experience Required

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience at a Managerial level working in the HR consultancy environment with a specific focus on Organisational Design, Organisation Culture Change, Strategic Change Management, Operational Change Management, Human Resource Functional Optimisation; Salary Benchmarking, and Employee Engagement.
• Project management experience, including managing and supporting up to 4-5 projects at once.
• Experience in delivering workstreams or projects and supporting change in a consulting or in–house environment.
• Experience in People Analytics (Surveys, data modelling, creating dashboards).
• Leading and managing a team of highly qualified specialists and consultants.
• Experience in supervising Industrial Psychology Interns.
• At least 5 years experience in revenue generation and management in a leadership role.