Organisational Development Specialist - Takealot Group at takealot.com

About the job

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for highly talented Organisational Development Specialist to join our team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard- working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The Role:

To research, design and deliver frameworks, practices and tools to effectively deliver Organisation Effectiveness. These include Employee Engagement, Organisation Design & Ways of working, Development of Organisational Culture, Digital Transformation & Change Management, Performance Management; Talent Management and Assessments

This role reports to the Head of Organisational Effectiveness

Your key responsibilities will be to:

Conceptualise, research, design, develop and deliver:

• customer-centric organisational structures and capabilities and ways of working that enable innovation, collaboration, team cohesion, agility and speed of execution
• frameworks and practices that drive and embed a values-based and inclusive organisational culture
• frameworks and practices that drive digital transformation and effective change management
• frameworks, tools and people practices that enable the identification, management and retention of the best talent
• internal and external research, benchmarking and analytics that provide appropriate insights to direct the people strategy and practices within the organisation
• employee engagement tools, assessments that amplifies the employee voice to inform and direct people effectiveness and wellbeing solutions
• Work with the business to implement changes, programs and practices in such a way that the business is enabled to be accountable.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary degree in Human Behaviourial sciences or related fields
• Registered Industrial Psychologist would be an advantage
• Sound knowledge and experience on Psychometric, leadership and team assessments is essential
• 5+ years relevant experience in the field of organisation development and effectiveness
• Proven track record of delivering organisational effectiveness with excellent skills and experience in research, benchmarking, designing and developing frameworks, policies, tools and business metric to develop organisational structures and capabilities
• Proven ability of enabling an organization to be accountable for organizational changes and effectiveness.

Personal Attributes:

• Resilience, proactive and adaptable: You are adaptable to change, composed under pressure and optimistic in your outlook
• Influence and Interpersonal relationships: Ability to influence and interpret the needs of stakeholders, with a strong customer service orientation and people management skills
• Critical and logical analysis: Creative thinker with ideas that will drive efficiency and improve business processes. Able to see the patterns in people puzzles
• Communication and simplification: Distil the trends and messages from data in a clear, concise and articulate manner
• Smart and wise in how you use of resources to deliver business value

We seek to Employ an Extraordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING