Organisational Development Manager, 12 month FTC

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Job Description | Organisational Development Manager (maternity cover)

Department: Human Resources

Location: London or Manchester

Clyde & Co is full of exciting opportunities to take onnew challenges and realise your potential. Thrive in a supportive and collaborative culture,empowered to do your bestwork, alongside smart, grounded colleagues. If you'vegot a growth mindset, are committed to deliveringyour best and invested in others, here you can play abig part in winning team.

The Team

Our global Organisational Development (OD) team is dedicated to shaping a thriving, high-performance culture that drives employee engagement, retention and the achievement of firm objectives. Blending deep OD expertise with a consultative approach, our work balances the delivery of global strategies with bespoke solutions tailored to local needs. Guided by our core values, we aim to cultivate impactful ways of working that enhance the employee experience at every stage.

Since January 2023 our team has grown into a dynamic five-strong group of psychologists, behavioural scientists and communications experts, bringing deep insight to support the firm's growth and evolution. While currently based across the UK, our remit spans every region of the global firm.

We're a committed, collaborative team who enjoy what we do and believe a good sense of humour makes us even better at it!

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Organisational Development, the OD Manager will design and implement impactful cultural and people engagement strategies, based on data insight and external best practice. Building upon their experience of people change techniques, they will work collaboratively with a range of internal stakeholders to understand, recommend and embed solutions with a people focus. This fast-paced role involves the management of and direct involvement in concurrent projects and initiatives.

Example current projects: roll out of an internally-designed team effectiveness toolkit; implementation of a global colleague awards process; analysing data and driving action in the upcoming September annual engagement survey; supporting an overseas practice group with a bespoke culture initiative; collaborating on the implementation of a recognition platform; providing behavioural science insights to nudge colleague behaviour.

Key Responsibilities

• Ideating, designing and implementing culture and people engagement strategies, aligned to global and regional business objectives
• Consulting and partnering with stakeholders and teams across the firm (especially HRBPs) to understand issues and co-create tailored solutions
• Preparing and delivering people engagement and experience surveys, including planning, survey preparation, analysis, reporting and action identification
• Expert utilisation of the firm's listening survey technology, including the quality assurance of data, survey administration and providing support for platform users
• Proactively gathering and analysing data from a variety of sources and using research methodologies to diagnose issues and generate deep insights into the unique contexts within the firm
• Preparing materials and presenting reports, papers and proposals for senior audiences such as the Management Board, Regional Boards and HR Management Team
• Drafting people-centric internal communications for engagement and cultural initiatives, working alongside communications specialists as required
• Concurrently managing and contributing to projects to ensure delivery to time and quality, involving multi-disciplinary team members and external consultants
• Measuring the impact of delivered work though data gathering and established evaluation techniques
• Facilitating, presenting and leading meetings and workshops as required
• Staying abreast of updates and working collaboratively with other teams such as HR Operations, Learning & Talent Development, Internal Communications, Diversity & Inclusion and Business Development across all regions
• Keeping up to date with external people trends and OD best practice

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in organisational development and change management in complex environments
• Proven ability to drive employee engagement through diverse methodologies
• Strong professional judgement and interpersonal skills for navigating sensitive or complex issues
• Collaborative, global mindset with effective consulting and stakeholder management skills
• Supportive team player
• Skilled in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and data analysis
• Commercially astute with an outcome-focused, delivery oriented approach
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and deliver at pace
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills
• Proficient in digital tools, including PowerPoint and data visualisation platforms
• Practical understanding of HR application
• Creative thinking (desirable)
• Experience in corporate communications and storytelling (desirable)
• Management consulting experience (desirable)
• Organisational psychology or behavioural science background (desirable)

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.