Role & Responsibilities
This role sits within the Strategic Workforce Planning and Organisation Design team, with a primary focus on Organisation Design and Transformation.
The role will support organisation design, operating model and work redesign activity across Sky, helping leaders make better choices about how work is organised, where accountability sits, what capability is needed and how teams should be structured to deliver business outcomes.
What You'll Do
Organisation Design & Transformation: Support the delivery of organisation design and transformation projects across Sky, including operating model design, work redesign, role clarity, accountabilities, spans, layers, governance and organisational structure.
Strategic Business Partnering: Work with business leaders and People Partners to define business challenges, clarify desired outcomes and translate strategy and transformation priorities into practical, evidence-based and commercially grounded organisation design options.
Data-Led Organisation Effectiveness: Use organisation, people and workforce data to identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, including duplication, unclear accountabilities, inefficient handoffs, narrow spans, excessive layers and fragmented ways of working.
Work Redesign, AI & Automation: Support work redesign by analysing activities, workflows and tasks to identify opportunities to simplify, stop, automate, augment or reorganise work. Assess the implications of AI, automation, technology and emerging ways of working for roles, skills, capacity, capability and organisational design.
Design Recommendations & Implementation : Develop clear organisation design options and recommendations, considering role implications, people impacts, cost, governance and transition plans. Provide constructive challenge to ensure proposed changes align with business strategy, future capability requirements and good design practice.
Organisation Design Frameworks & Self-Service Tools: Help develop and embed Sky's organisation design principles, methodologies and reusable resources, including problem statement templates, diagnostic tools, spans and layers guidance, accountability frameworks and option papers, enabling People Partners and leaders to apply consistent approaches.
Strategic Workforce Planning & Future of Work : Partner with Strategic Workforce Planning colleagues to connect organisation design recommendations with future workforce demand, critical capabilities, skills, sourcing choices and workforce plans. Bring outside-in thinking on future of work trends, AI-enabled transformation and operating model practices to challenge assumptions and inform future design choices.
Stakeholder Engagement, Influence & Communication: Build strong relationships across the People function and wider business, encouraging collaboration and reducing duplication. Navigate ambiguity with structure, pace and clarity, using effective communication and storytelling to translate complex organisational challenges into compelling narratives, practical recommendations and clear choices for senior leaders.
What You'll Bring
Organisation Design & Transformation Expertise: 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.
Strategic & Commercial Understanding : Strong business and commercial acumen, with the ability to translate business strategy, operating model choices, cost pressures and performance drivers into practical organisation design recommendations covering roles, accountabilities, governance, spans, layers and structure.
Data Analysis & Evidence-Based Decision Making: Confidence using people, organisation and workforce data to identify challenges, test hypotheses, evaluate organisational trade-offs and develop evidence-based recommendations that improve…