Manager, Organisation Design & Transformation

Location: London, UK; hybrid working with 3 days per week in the office at hirify.global Group HQ, Osterley Campus. Applicants must have the appropriate right to work in the UK; hirify.global does not offer sponsorship for this position.

Company

hirify.global is a media and entertainment company providing products and services across entertainment, sports, news and arts.

What you will do

• Support organisation design and transformation projects covering operating models, work redesign, role clarity, accountabilities, spans, layers, governance and organisational structures.
• Partner with business leaders and People Partners to define challenges, clarify outcomes and develop commercially grounded organisation design options.
• Use organisation, people and workforce data to identify duplication, unclear accountabilities, inefficient handoffs, narrow spans, excessive layers and fragmented ways of working.
• Analyse activities, workflows and tasks to identify opportunities to simplify, stop, automate, augment or reorganise work, assessing the impact of AI, technology and emerging ways of working.
• Develop design recommendations, implementation and transition plans, considering role implications, people impacts, cost, governance and future capability requirements.
• Build reusable organisation design principles, methodologies, diagnostic tools, accountability frameworks and self-service resources, while influencing senior stakeholders through clear communication and storytelling.

Requirements

• Strong experience in organisation design, organisation effectiveness, operating model design or business transformation, including current-state assessment, design principles, options development, role and accountability design and implementation planning.
• Strong business and commercial acumen, with the ability to translate strategy, operating model choices, cost pressures and performance drivers into practical organisation design recommendations.
• Confidence using people, organisation and workforce data to test hypotheses, evaluate organisational trade-offs and develop evidence-based recommendations.
• Experience working with senior leaders and cross-functional teams; ability to clarify ambiguous problems, challenge constructively, influence decisions and build trusted relationships across People, Finance, Transformation, Technology, People Analytics and the wider business.
• Strong communication and strategic storytelling skills for simplifying complex organisation design and workforce challenges into compelling narratives and practical options.
• Ability to translate organisation design theory, external insight and best practice into practical tools, frameworks, recommendations and reusable self-service resources.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving priorities, balancing attention to detail, competing demands and wider strategic and commercial outcomes.
• Curiosity and external focus, with understanding of emerging organisation design practices, AI, automation, future workforce capabilities and changing ways of working.

Nice to have

• Experience in operating model design, transformation or shared services / centres of excellence models.
• Experience in work redesign, process redesign, productivity improvement or AI / automation impact assessment.
• Experience working in a large, complex, matrixed or global organisation.
• Exposure to Strategic Workforce Planning, skills planning, job architecture or workforce transformation.
• Experience supporting organisation change, consultation planning, transition planning or implementation activity.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with an expectation of 3 office days per week.
• Free hirify.global TV or NOW package, including hirify.global Sports and hirify.global Cinema.
• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution.
• Private healthcare with mental health support, Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance.
• Discounts on hirify.global products, Sharesave and Tech schemes, plus hirify.global VIP rewards and experiences.
• Equal opportunity workplace with disability-confident accreditation and reasonable adjustments available.

Hiring process

• Successful applicants must complete a criminal record check.
• Applications require appropriate right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available.