Head of Organisation Design

Phoenix Group
Edinburgh, London
Workplace: HybridContractFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["Stakeholder management","Governance","Leadership","Strategic thinking","Organizational effectiveness"]

Shape and govern organisational structures that enable business strategy delivery, workforce transformation, and organisational effectiveness across the Group. Partner with Heads of HR, executive leadership, and transformation leaders to provide strategic organisation design expertise for major change initiatives including operating model redesign, M&A, integrations, and large-scale workforce transformation. Ensure organisation design decisions improve accountabilities, career development, capability growth, and agility in response to customer, commercial, and regulatory needs.

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Phoenix Group
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Head of Organisation Design

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Job Summary

Shape and govern organisational structures that enable business strategy delivery, workforce transformation, and organisational effectiveness across the Group. Partner with Heads of HR, executive leadership, and transformation leaders to provide strategic organisation design expertise for major change initiatives including operating model redesign, M&A, integrations, and large-scale workforce transformation. Ensure organisation design decisions improve accountabilities, career development, capability growth, and agility in response to customer, commercial, and regulatory needs.
Location: Edinburgh, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Shape and govern organisational structures that enable delivery of business strategy, workforce transformation, and organisational effectiveness across the Group.
  • •Provide strategic organisation design expertise for major change initiatives, including operating model redesign, mergers and acquisitions, integrations, and workforce transformation programmes.
  • •Create organisation design decisions that establish clear accountabilities and support career development and capability growth.
  • •Optimise spans and layers to enable the organisation to respond quickly to changing customer, commercial, and regulatory requirements.
  • •Work closely with Heads of HR, executive leadership teams, and transformation leaders to align organisational design with major business change.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 110,000 annually
Perks:Private MedicalAnnual LeavePensionLife AssuranceIncome ProtectionVolunteer Days

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience in a senior HR leadership, organisation design, or organisational effectiveness role.
  • •Strong generalist HR background with broad understanding of people strategy and HR disciplines.
  • •Proven experience leading large-scale organisation design, operating model, and workforce transformation initiatives.
  • •Experience supporting significant business change programmes, restructures, integrations, or mergers and acquisitions.
  • •Experience implementing organisation design solutions that improve performance, agility, and organisational effectiveness.
Experience:Financial servicesProfessional servicesWorkforce transformationMergers and acquisitions
Skills:Stakeholder managementGovernanceLeadershipStrategic thinkingOrganizational effectiveness

Company Brief

Phoenix Group
A UK long-term savings and retirement business operating brands including Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure, managing pensions, annuities and wealth solutions with c.12 million customers and large assets under administration.
Industry: Wealth Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1782
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