Organisational Design Specialist at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• To design and optimise organisational structures, operating models, and workforce frameworks to align with strategic business objectives by conducting in-depth analysis, collaborating with key stakeholders, and developing solutions that enhance operational efficiency, employee engagement, and business performance. 
• To ensure compliance with relevant policies, legislation, and industry standards while fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability within the organisation.
• Conduct detailed organisational diagnostics to evaluate existing structures, processes, and operating models, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and business needs.
• Design and implement optimised organisational structures that balance workforce capacity, functional responsibilities, team-centricity, and cost efficiency to achieve adaptability and sustainable business growth.
• Develop and apply organisational design frameworks, templates, initiatives, methodologies, tools, and standards for organisational design interventions, to ensure consistency and effectiveness in design processes.
• Develop and maintain job families, job architectures, and job libraries to support career development, talent management, and succession planning.
• Support HC client partnering teams and business stakeholders with themes and levels of work, facilitating an understanding of stratified systems theory and its application within (or across) the organisation.
• Perform workload analysis and workforce planning to identify capacity gaps and recommend strategies to address short- and long-term resourcing requirements.
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify and address pain points in operational workflows, recommending adjustments to roles, teams, or reporting structures to improve efficiency.
• Facilitate workshops and engagements with stakeholders to align on design principles, gain consensus on proposed changes, and to solicit feedback on delivery and implementation thereof.
• Analyse and interpret data to provide insights on headcount, organisational health, and effectiveness metrics to inform design recommendations.
• Engage and interact with various operational systems and processes and support HC stakeholders to do the same, for the resolution of any data gaps, ensuring data integrity.
• Partner with HC teams to integrate organisational design strategies with talent acquisition, learning and development, and performance management initiatives.
• Conduct impact assessments for proposed changes, identifying risks and mitigation strategies to ensure seamless implementation of organisational changes.
• Provide input into change plans as needed with change management stakeholders/expertise to support organisational transformation and minimise disruption to operations.
• Provide expert advice on organisational design best practices and trends, tailoring solutions to the specific cultural and operational context of the business.
• Drive and monitor quality assurance of organisational design projects or initiatives (operating models, structures, role profiles and job evaluation).
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of implemented organisational designs, making continuous improvements to address evolving business needs.
• Ensure compliance with relevant labour legislation, industry regulations, and governance standards during the organisational design process.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of design activities, including current and future state organisation charts, role definitions, and process maps, to ensure transparency and traceability.
• Collaborate with reward stakeholders to ensure alignment between the remuneration review framework and role architecture data.
• Participate in relevant bodies that ensure collaboration with colleagues across the HC community in the Group, to continuously build OD and HC capability within the organisation.
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.
• Creates solutions to meet customer demands to deliver internal and external customer service excellence through adherence to quality service standards.
• Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance, and practice standards across the business.
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by organisation and review in response to audit findings and changes.

Job Details

• Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
• 05/02/25