Organisation Design and Strategic Workforce Planning Consultant

Location Manchester, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On\-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day\-to\-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

Flexible Schedule Available

This role is open to discussion on flexible scheduling such as part\-time, compressed hours, or job share options.

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Job description
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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as an Organisation Design and Strategic Workforce Planning Consultant

• In this key role, you’ll deliver integrated, data‑driven organisation design (OD) and strategic workforce planning (SWP) solutions aligned with business needs to enable effective strategy execution


• You’ll develop, deliver, and refine structured OD and SWP methodologies, tools, and frameworks that support long‑term organisational priorities, future workforce needs, and strategic decision‑making


• You’ll be recognised as an expert by diagnosing organisational challenges through data analysis, identifying key gaps and risks, and designing insight‑driven solutions for effective planning and readiness


• Our team operates within a hybrid working model so you'll work from home some of the time, coming into the London, Edinburgh or Manchester office at least two days per week to collaborate closely with your colleagues

As an OD and SWP Consultant, you’ll apply OD principles to assess, design, and optimise structures, roles, accountabilities, and ways of working, ensuring alignment with strategy, future capability needs, and operating model requirements. You’ll gather and validate workforce, business, and market data to support accurate forecasting and modelling, and analyse supply, demand, skills trends, and structural factors to identify capability needs, organisational risks, critical gaps, and planning priorities. You’ll also translate workforce insights into practical SWP and OD recommendations, producing high‑quality analysis, visualisations, and design inputs that enable leaders to make evidence‑based decisions on capability, capacity, structure, and resource deployment.

We’ll look to you as well to design, embed, and continuously improve OD and SWP frameworks, templates, and tools to ensure best\-practice and consistent application across the bank. You’ll provide expert, evidence‑based advice on workforce planning and organisation issues, including skills shortages, demographic shifts, structural inefficiencies, capability gaps, and future role requirements, while supporting the optimisation of structures using OD principles, such as diagnostics, job and team design, role clarity development, and accountability mapping. Additionally, you’ll build understanding and adoption of SWP and OD by delivering training, coaching, and practical support to HR and business leaders, facilitate cross‑functional discussions that align workforce plans, structural decisions, and priorities with strategy, financial plans, and future operating model needs. You’ll also produce clear insights and reports that translate complex data into practical recommendations for leaders.

Furthermore, you’ll be:

• Supporting scenario\-planning activities to help leaders understand the implications of different strategic, structural, or environmental futures on workforce and OD


• Partnering with Work Architecture to ensure job, role, and skills data used in SWP and OD activities is accurate, standardised, and aligned to enterprise frameworks


• Providing training, coaching, and capability upskill to HR teams and business leaders on SWP and OD concepts, tools, frameworks, and methodologies


• Acting as a trusted advisor to People, Finance, and business stakeholders, challenging assumptions, informing decisions and shaping future workforce and organisational planning outcomes


• Continuously evaluating and refining SWP and OD practices based on stakeholder feedback, emerging trends, organisational learning, and evolving business needs

We’re looking for someone with demonstrable experience in organisation design, strategic workforce planning, HR analytics, or organisational development, along with a strong understanding of OD and SWP methodology, including scenario modelling and gap analysis. To succeed in this role, you’ll also need advanced analytical skills with proficiency in data collation, interpretation, and visualisation tools.

In addition, you’ll need:

• The ability to synthesise complex information and present it in a clear, compelling manner to diverse audiences


• A proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving change


• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with experience in delivering training and upskilling programmes


• A deep understanding of labour market trends, future‑of‑work themes, and emerging skills frameworks

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

80% Base pay This is the part your your pay package that you take home every month.

10% Pension funding 10% of your salary goes towards your pension every month.

10% Benefit funding 10% of your salary goes towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Spinningfields hub
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Spinningfields is Manchester’s leading leisure, retail, and business district and home to some of the most incredible architecture, restaurants, flagship stores, and bars the city has to offer.

Key facts:

• Space for 1,345 colleagues from various teams across the bank


• Our outdoor roof terrace has panoramic views of the city


• Opened in 2023

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