Senior Organisational Effectiveness & Design Specialist
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Overview
Join Shoprite as a Senior Organisational Effectiveness & Design Specialist, based in Cape Town, where you will lead organisation design and capability architecture across a dynamic, large-scale enterprise. This senior role demands expertise in organisation design, job architecture, competency frameworks, and workforce analytics to translate business strategy into practical, sustainable structural solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Human Resources, Industrial/Organisational Psychology, Organisational Development, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 to 8 years relevant experience in Organisational Effectiveness, Organisation Design, Organisational Development, Job Architecture, HR, or a related People discipline.
- Proven practical experience in organisation design, role design, and organisational analysis.
- Demonstrated expertise with Job Families, Job Architecture, role profiling, and job evaluation or role sizing.
- Experience in developing, governing, or maintaining enterprise capability, competency, or skills frameworks and their application.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience partnering with senior leaders and subject-matter experts to influence organisational effectiveness.
- Proficiency in using workforce analytics and organisational data to identify risks and inform strategic workforce decisions.
- Excellent systems thinking ability to connect strategy, capabilities, work, jobs, and skills into practical organisational solutions.
- Strong analytical skills with the capability to simplify complex issues into clear, actionable plans.
- Postgraduate qualification and/or relevant professional certification in a related discipline is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Lead organisation design and restructuring initiatives, translating business requirements into clearly defined structures, roles, and accountabilities to enhance organisational effectiveness.
- Analyse organisational effectiveness by assessing role clarity, spans and layers, reporting relationships, duplication, complexity, and workforce data to identify improvement opportunities.
- Develop and maintain the Enterprise Capability Architecture by linking enterprise capabilities and sub-capabilities to relevant Job Families and Sub-Job Families.
- Oversee the governance and continuous development of the Group Enterprise Technical Competency Framework.
- Collaborate closely with business and technical subject-matter experts to keep technical competency frameworks practical and reflective of evolving work and capability requirements.
- Establish and maintain frameworks for identifying and classifying scarce and critical skills.
- Utilise workforce analytics and organisational insights to highlight risks related to structure, capability, and skills.
- Apply principles of job architecture, role profiling, and role-sizing to support grading governance and the implementation of approved organisation changes.
- Partner with business leaders, People Partners, and specialised People teams to provide expert advice and facilitate discussions on organisation design and capability development.
- Maintain a strong systems-thinking approach to connect strategy, capability, work, jobs, and skills.
How to apply
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