People & HR

Organisation Effectiveness Partner

Job ID: 009163

Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ

Job type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Salary: £42,200 - £63,400 Per Annum (depending on experience) + Bonus & Benefits

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Organisation Effectiveness (OE) Partner

Fixed Term Up to 18 months

About the Role

It’s an exciting time at YBS! As we deliver the most ambitious strategy in our 160-year history, we’re evolving how we work to ensure we’re set up for long-term success. That means rethinking how our business operatesclarifying responsibilities, streamlining processes, and making sure we have the right people with the right skills in the right roles.

At the heart of this transformation is our new Organisation Effectiveness (OE) team. We’re looking for several fixed term contract OE Partners to join our multi-disciplinary team and help shape a future-ready organisationstrategically designed, cost-effective, and powered by the right skills and capabilities.

You’ll work alongside specialists in organisational design, change management, strategic workforce planning, and people solutions to deliver insight-led, people-focused change. Whether you bring deep expertise in one area or a broader skillset, you’ll play a key role in helping us build the conditions for successful transformation.

What You’ll Be Doing

As an OE Partner, you’ll contribute to a wide range of strategic initiatives, working with our people partners and other parts of the people division as well as the business depending on your expertise and agreed development. These may include (core OE capabilities):

Organisation Design Aligning future skills and capabilities with our purpose, strategy, and change agenda, including structural alignment, spans/layers, operating model shifts.

Strategic Workforce Planning Partnering with leaders to assess strategic workforce needs, identify skills gaps, and plan.

Organisation Change Insights Contributing to a portfolio view of how change impacts our people and shaping our response.

People Solutions Using data from inside and outside the company to create flexible, people-focused solutions such as new people products.

Organisation Design Implementation Helping deliver new operating models and ensuring a smooth, people-focused transition with a strong employee relations background implementation of design outcomes such as changes to structures.

Change Management stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, behavioural change, people impact assessment, influencing.

About You

We’re building a diverse team with a blend of experience and expertise. You might be:

An HR generalist with a strong interest in organisational effectiveness
A specialist in one or more of the following areas:
Organisation design and development
Strategic workforce planning
People side of change
People solutions and delivery

Whatever your background, you’ll bring:

A track record of supporting transformation and delivering people change.
Strategic thinking and a data-informed approach to problem solving.
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
A collaborative, adaptable mindset, and a passion for making things better.

Our Head Office teams are known as Enabling Functions. They're open, innovative, collaborative and always focused on doing what’s right.

And they’re here to support our colleagues by providing a range of high quality, head office services, including risk, HR, finance and marketing. Whatever team you join, you’ll discover that it’s a welcoming, supportive and inclusive place to be, with all the flexibility you need to make work a rewarding part of your life.

Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
Access to brilliant health benefits
Life assurance at 6 times your salary
25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
Wellbeing resources and tools
Retail and Leisure discounts

Find out more about what we offer

Learning & Development

Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.

These include...

Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.

Learn about developing your career here

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

You’ll find people from all walks of life here, with different cultures, beliefs, ages, outlooks and more. And we’re proud of our differences. So we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered to be their whole self at work.

Our five Colleague Networks play an important role in helping that happen – and have a real impact on our everyday working life here. Each is closely linked to our Inclusion and Diversity committee, and sponsored by a member of our Senior Leadership Team.

And we also have other colleague groups, such as ManKind and Family Foundations, where colleagues can connect, and start conversations that can be taken into the Networks.

Community and Charity

Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.

We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.

Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…

The people and the culture within Yorkshire Building Society is great to work with.

Lauren

Senior Project Manager, Leeds

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Our ways of working

Colleague smiling at phone in the office

We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.

Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.

Find out more about our Ways of Working here:

Meet the Recruiter(s)

Sophie Harrison

Resourcing & Inclusion Specialist

Connect with Sophie Harrison

I recruit for the following business areas: People, Risk, Internal Audit & Commercial (excluding digital channels)

I joined YBS in October 2021. Prior to this I spent 5 years working within other financial services, gaining experience in internal recruitment, and ultimately realising this was the career I was passionate about.

I have been fortunate enough throughout my years in recruitment to recruit for lots of different areas but I currently specialise in our head office functions, supporting hiring managers with their resourcing needs and supporting candidates to achieve their full potential throughout our recruitment process.

Olivia Lambert

Resourcing & Inclusion Specialist

Connect with Olivia Lambert

I recruit for the following business areas: Commercial (excluding digital channels), Internal Audit, People & Risk

I joined the Society in 2017, and throughout that time I have worked in several departments, learning and growing along the way. However, it wasn't until April 2022 that I finally discovered my passion, which is recruitment.

In my current role with the Resourcing & Inclusion team, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with many amazing teams across the business. I absolutely love helping hiring managers find their perfect candidates, and it's equally rewarding to assist candidates in landing their dream jobs.

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