Organisation Design Partner – Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Overview

As an Organisation Design Partner, you will collaborate with executive teams to design and structure groups and roles that execute strategy. You’ll shape a strategic vision for structuring the Group to meet market and functional trends over 1–3 years, drawing on internal and external perspectives. You will work closely with leaders to translate strategy into clear roles, governance, and change narratives, while assessing impact on behavior, culture, and processes. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role at Tesco that combines design expertise with change management to enable scalable, future-focused organisation design.

Pay / Benefits

• Annual bonus up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus personal day
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity/adoption leave with 6 weeks paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Responsibilities

• Provide Organisation Design expertise aligned to Group objectives and travel direction
• Stay current with OD best practices and develop blueprints (principles, Work Levels, Job Descriptions)
• Partner with leaders to identify design improvements that meet strategy and financial targets (1–3 years)
• Advise leaders with data-led role/structure options aligned to OD principles and Tesco Service Model
• Design roles with clear accountabilities and simple ways of working
• Build trusted relationships to assess design impact on behavior, skills, culture, systems and communication
• Collaborate on inter-dependencies with People POEs and change teams
• Partner with finance to align on efficiencies and investments for change
• Support case for change, benefits, and change narrative
• Lead evaluation to ensure changes are embedded and measured against success metrics
• Ensure position governance and integrity of roles/structures
• Maintain accurate position data and provide headcount/structure insights
• Coordinate with Strategic Workforce Planning for long-term shaping and annual plan interventions

Key requirements

• Experience building structures in large organisations with cross-functional hand-offs
• Experience managing change projects (internal or consultancy)
• OrgVue experience is highly desirable but not essential

• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• curiosity and continuous learning
• OrgVue (desirable)
• OD principles and frameworks (Work Levels, Job Descriptions)
• Strategic Workforce Planning collaboration

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