Manager, Workforce Transformation and Organisation Design

• Organisational Design & Workforce Transformation Manager
• 4:1 Hybrid
• Manager level
• Shape the organisation of the future through purposeful design.

Requirement

This role is for an experienced Organisational Design specialist who wants to influence how work is structured, decisions are made, and capabilities are built across a complex, evolving organisation. You will lead enterprise and business-unit organisational design initiatives, ensuring structure, roles, and capability are intentionally designed to enable strategy, performance, and employee experience.

This is a hands-on design role with real authority, not just implementation, offering the opportunity to partner directly with senior leaders to solve complex organisational challenges and create a future-ready workforce.

The Opportunity You will play a critical role in shaping organisational effectiveness by applying rigorous organisational design principles to real business problems. Working closely with Executive Leaders and People & Culture, you will diagnose organisational issues, design fit-for-purpose operating models, and guide leaders through structural change with clarity and confidence.

Your work will directly influence productivity, accountability, capability uplift, and employee experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise and business-unit organisational design initiatives, including operating model reviews, structural redesign, spans and layers analysis, and role clarity.
• Diagnose organisational effectiveness challenges, translating strategy, capability needs, and future ways of working into fit-for-purpose organisational designs.
• Design workforce strategies that align structure, capability, and role design to business priorities and future growth.
• Use workforce data, scenario modelling, and external benchmarks to inform evidence-based organisational design decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders to guide complex structural decisions, trade-offs, and change impacts.
• Lead workforce transition activities associated with organisational redesign, including role changes, redeployment, and rationalisation where required.
• Apply structured change management approaches to support leaders and employees through organisational change.
• Define and track organisational design success measures, reporting insights and outcomes to executive leadership.
• Ensure all organisational design and workforce initiatives comply with legal, industrial, and organisational frameworks.

Key Stakeholders

• Executive Leadership Teams and Senior Business Leaders
• People & Culture Business Partners and Centres of Expertise
• Transformation Office, Process Excellence, and AI Centres of Expertise

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading organisational design work, including operating model design, structural redesign, and role architecture.
• Strong grounding in organisational design methodologies and principles, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in complex environments.
• Experience translating strategy and capability requirements into effective organisational structures.
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with confidence working directly with senior executives.
• Strong analytical capability, including workforce data interpretation and scenario modelling.
• Experience supporting workforce transitions and organisational change resulting from redesign.
• High emotional intelligence, resilience, and comfort navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Commercial mindset with a focus on sustainable, high-impact design outcomes.

Contact: ashleyduffy@future-you.com.au