Join us as an Organisation Design and Strategic Workforce Planning Consultant
In this key role, you’ll deliver integrated, data‑driven organisation design (OD) and strategic workforce planning (SWP) solutions aligned with business needs to enable effective strategy execution
You’ll develop, deliver, and refine structured OD and SWP methodologies, tools, and frameworks that support long‑term organisational priorities, future workforce needs, and strategic decision‑making
You’ll be recognised as an expert by diagnosing organisational challenges through data analysis, identifying key gaps and risks, and designing insight‑driven solutions for effective planning and readiness
Our team operates within a hybrid working model so you'll work from home some of the time, coming into the London, Edinburgh or Manchester office at least two days per week to collaborate closely with your colleagues
As an OD and SWP Consultant, you’ll apply OD principles to assess, design, and optimise structures, roles, accountabilities, and ways of working, ensuring alignment with strategy, future capability needs, and operating model requirements. You’ll gather and validate workforce, business, and market data to support accurate forecasting and modelling, and analyse supply, demand, skills trends, and structural factors to identify capability needs, organisational risks, critical gaps, and planning priorities. You’ll also translate workforce insights into practical SWP and OD recommendations, producing high‑quality analysis, visualisations, and design inputs that enable leaders to make evidence‑based decisions on capability, capacity, structure, and resource deployment.
We’ll look to you as well to design, embed, and continuously improve OD and SWP frameworks, templates, and tools to ensure best-practice and consistent application across the bank. You’ll provide expert, evidence‑based advice on workforce planning and organisation issues, including skills shortages, demographic shifts, structural inefficiencies, capability gaps, and future role requirements, while supporting the optimisation of structures using OD principles, such as diagnostics, job and team design, role clarity development, and accountability mapping. Additionally, you’ll build understanding and adoption of SWP and OD by delivering training, coaching, and practical support to HR and business leaders, facilitate cross‑functional discussions that align workforce plans, structural decisions, and priorities with strategy, financial plans, and future operating model needs. You’ll also produce clear insights and reports that translate complex data into practical recommendations for leaders.
Furthermore, you’ll be:
Supporting scenario-planning activities to help leaders understand the implications of different strategic, structural, or environmental futures on workforce and OD
Partnering with Work Architecture to ensure job, role, and skills data used in SWP and OD activities is accurate, standardised, and aligned to enterprise frameworks
Providing training, coaching, and capability upskill to HR teams and business leaders on SWP and OD concepts, tools, frameworks, and methodologies
Acting as a trusted advisor to People, Finance, and business stakeholders, challenging assumptions, informing decisions and shaping future workforce and organisational planning outcomes
Continuously evaluating and refining SWP and OD practices based on stakeholder feedback, emerging trends, organisational learning, and evolving business needs
We’re looking for someone with demonstrable experience in organisation design, strategic workforce planning, HR analytics, or organisational development, along with a strong understanding of OD and SWP methodology, including scenario modelling and gap analysis. To succeed in this role, you’ll also need advanced analytical skills with proficiency in data collation, interpretation, and visualisation tools.
In addition, you’ll need:
The ability to synthesise complex information and present it in a clear, compelling manner to diverse audiences
A proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving change
Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with experience in delivering training and upskilling programmes
A deep understanding of labour market trends, future‑of‑work themes, and emerging skills frameworks
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
Job Posting Closing Date is not yet published.Ways of Working:Hybrid
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
