Organisation Effectiveness and Workforce Planning Lead, OBG

Key Responsibilities

• People Analytics & Workforce Insights

- Evolve the strategy and delivery of OBG people analytics and workforce intelligence focused on identifying emerging risks, opportunities, actions and measurable outcomes rather than reporting alone. - Lead and Manage the People Insights Specialist to develop meaningful workforce metrics and dashboards that support business leaders and the People function. - Analyse workforce trends, identifying emerging opportunities and risks. - Drive continuous improvement in HR data quality and reporting capability. - Translate analytical insight into practical options and recommendations for workforce, organisation, talent, reskilling and resourcing decisions. - Build forecasting and scenario modelling capability to improve workforce planning.

• Strategic Workforce Planning

- Lead the development and maintenance of OBG’s Strategic Workforce Plan, working closely with the FDJ United Group People teams to ensure consistency with workforce planning approaches and frameworks while meeting OBG's business needs. - Identify future skills and capability requirements across the Business Unit, including the timing, scale and affected populations resulting from these requirements, and develop capability forecasts and gap assessments. - Identify workforce risks related to skills and roles, labour market trends, organisational capacity and transformation, with clear indicators and mitigation options. - Partner with Finance, Talent Development, Talent Acquisition and business leaders to model workforce investment, productivity and operating cost scenarios, ensuring workforce plans remain commercially sustainable and aligned to business strategy. - Develop evidence-based workforce strategies that optimise workforce mix, sourcing, location, automation, organisation design, productivity and operating cost while protecting critical capability and supporting long-term business objectives. - Translate workforce analysis into clearly prioritised talent, recruitment, reskilling, redeployment, organisation, investment and location interventions. - Agree ownership with BU and HR Group Centres of Excellence, People Partners and business leaders and support tracking outcomes. - Analyse workforce options including permanent, contingent and outsourced models to support business decision making, in partnership with Talent Acquisition.

• Organisation Effectiveness, Design & Change

- Lead organisation effectiveness and change initiatives that optimise target operating models, structures, governance, decision rights and workforce productivity in support of strategy and transformation priorities. - Partner with senior leaders to design, deliver and embed organisation design and transformation initiatives, providing expert advice on organisational principles, industry best practice and scalable organisational solutions. - Assess organisational health and effectiveness, identifying opportunities to improve accountability, collaboration, role clarity, spans and layers, governance and organisational performance. - Advise leaders on organisational design decisions, ensuring changes are supported by robust analysis, clear governance, appropriate decision rights and consideration of wider business impacts. - Work with People Partners, Finance and Centres of Excellence to translate approved designs into sequenced change and workforce actions, with clear delivery accountability and alignment to workforce strategy. - Lead cross-BU organisational change and transition activities, including impact assessments, risk management and change readiness, to ensure successful implementation while minimising disruption to business-as-usual operations. - Evaluate the effectiveness of organisational changes, measuring business outcomes and recommending continuous improvements to organisation design, operating models and workforce capability. - Develop, maintain and continuously improve the organisation Design and Change methodology, toolkits and governance frameworks, promoting consistent application across the business. - Maintain organisational integrity by ensuring organisation structures, job architecture, job descriptions and organisational data accurately reflect approved organisational changes. - Develop and monitor organisation effectiveness measures and insights that support Executive decision-making and continuous organisational improvement.