Onsite Organisational Design Lead

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About the role

  • Organisational Design Lead enabling business performance through effective organisational systems at Santam. Handling design, optimisation, and embedding of structures and ways of working.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a subject matter expert in organisational design, operating models, and organisation effectiveness.
  • Lead end-to-end OD engagements using a structured OD process from diagnosis through to implementation planning and monitoring.
  • Lead the diagnosis and analysis of organisational structures, roles, reporting lines, accountabilities, and workflows.
  • Design and implement fit-for-purpose organisation structures and operating models aligned to business strategy.
  • Develop and evaluate future-state design options using structured analysis of costs, benefits, and risks; make recommendations with clear trade-offs.
  • Identify and design for interfaces and interdependencies across teams and functions to ensure the structure works end-to-end, not only within a BU.
  • Translate business needs into clear operating model and governance requirements, integrating diverse information sources to develop robust solutions.
  • Develop and embed organisation design and organisational effectiveness frameworks, principles, and standards across the business.
  • Provide change management leadership to support operating model and organisational changes.
  • Manage OD workstreams within transformational change programmes, ensuring integration with related initiatives.
  • Using structured change methods to build acceptance.
  • Partner with HR Business Partners, Change Managers to develop practical implementation and adoption artefacts (narrative, leadership packs, FAQs, comms approach, transition plan), aligned to the change enablement expectations.
  • Evaluate the impact and effectiveness of organisational interventions and adjust approaches to optimise outcomes. Support leadership teams in navigating complexity, ambiguity, and change.
  • Operate as a trusted internal consultant to senior leaders and line management to make clear design decisions.
  • Build internal organisational effectiveness and organisation design capability within HR and the broader business.
  • Plan and facilitate workshops, leadership engagements, and diagnostic sessions across multiple levels of the organisation to surface root causes, decision constraints, and competing priorities.
  • Identify systemic organisational issues related to culture, leadership, values, and ways of working, and design interventions accordingly.
  • Build Org Design capability with HR Business Partners and the business by coaching on methods, tools, and practical application.
  • Lead and manage strategic HC and organisational design projects, from conceptualisation through to delivery.
  • Deliver initiatives that span enterprise-wide transformation as well as targeted BU-level interventions.
  • Build team structure, roles and responsibilities, and ways of working needed to execute OD programmes successfully.
  • Strengthen “continuous improvement” by explicitly calling out process optimisation as part of OD interventions.
  • Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, timelines, and quality standards and are packaged for executive decision-making.

Requirements

  • Completed University Degree in Behavioural Science or a related field (e.g. Psychology, Industrial/Organisational Psychology).
  • Postgraduate qualification in a related field (advantageous and typical for the level).
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in organisational effectiveness, organisational design, change management, management consulting or performance consulting roles within medium to large organisations with evidence of delivering end-to-end OD/TOM engagements and advising leaders through complex decisions.
  • Proven experience operating as an internal or external consultant including executive-level stakeholder engagement.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading organisational change and complex, multi-stakeholder projects from diagnosis to implementation planning.
  • Experience building OD recommendations supported by cost/benefit and impact analysis.
  • Experience influencing and engaging senior leaders; some people or project leadership exposure preferred.
  • Exposure to Org Analytics and Structural Assessment and Design tools such as OrgVue will be advantageous.

Benefits

  • Santam is committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
  • Equal opportunity employer encouraging applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Job title

Organisational Design Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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