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Head of Organisational Development & Culture
Hays HR is delighted to be partnering with a large, high-performing organisation to recruit a Head of Organisational Development & Culture in West London. This is a newly created leadership opportunity, offering the chance to shape organisational culture, workforce capability and employee experience as part of an ambitious long-term people strategy.
Employing a large and diverse workforce across multiple locations, our client is committed to becoming an employer of choice and creating an outstanding working environment where colleagues can thrive.
Reporting to a senior People leader and working closely with executive stakeholders, you will provide strategic leadership across organisational development, culture transformation, leadership development and employee engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of a long-term workforce and organisational development strategy.
- Conduct workforce capability and skills reviews, identifying future talent and development needs.
- Design and implement a comprehensive CPD framework, including digital and blended learning solutions.
- Develop and launch a scalable leadership development programme for current and future leaders.
- Drive organisation-wide culture change initiatives aligned to employee experience and organisational performance objectives.
- Partner with senior leaders to enhance engagement, wellbeing, attendance, retention and organisational effectiveness.
- Lead and support specialist Organisational Development and Employee Experience teams.
- Produce high-quality business cases, reports and recommendations for executive and board-level audiences.
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About You
We are seeking an experienced and credible OD professional with a proven track record of leading large-scale organisational development initiatives within complex environments. You will be able to demonstrate:
- Significant senior-level experience in organisational development, learning and development, employee engagement and culture transformation.
- Experience designing and delivering leadership development and workforce capability programmes.
- A strong understanding of organisational culture and behavioural change methodologies.
- Proven success influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic change initiatives.
- Experience leading employee engagement programmes, analysing insights and delivering measurable improvements.
- Strong people leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and complex projects.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional standing, with a track record of continuing professional development
- Chartered CIPD membership and/or a CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management or Strategic Learning and Development, or an equivalent professional qualification.
- A coaching, organisational development or learning-design qualification
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The Offer
- Salary of £53000 to £60,000 per annum (Potential market supplement for exceptional candidates)
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 37 days plus bank holidays and additional closure days.
- Excellent pension scheme.
- Employee wellbeing platform and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Staff discount schemes.
- Free parking across sites.
- Ongoing professional development opportunities.
While the role will have flexibility, it will be based across 4 sites throughout West London/Middlesex and, as such, the majority of time will be on one of the sites. Hybrid requirements can be discussed but expectations of site presence.
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