Organisational Development Lead (Fixed Term Contract)

• Strengthening the People Management capability across our organisation.
• Leading cultural change programmes, such as hybrid working and inclusive team environments.
• Developing our talent philosophy, improving our ability to identify, incentivise, develop and retain our critical talent.
• Leading our annual performance evaluation and promotion cycles.
• Growing our Org Dev consultancy portfolio, partnering with P&C Partners, Managers and Org Leaders on Org Dev solutions at both org or team levels.
• Partnering with senior leaders on strategic growth opportunities through M&A activity, new geographical location set up, or spin off company set ups.
• Strategically and proactively manage a very complex and ever-changing calendar of meetings, conference calls, interviews appointments, across numerous time zones and different office locations
• Supporting with operational tasks and processes; suggesting ideas for continuous improvement to increase efficiencies
• Collate and prepare a daily briefing document for the VP, tracking actions and outputs, in partnership with the team
• Meeting support - circulating agendas, capturing notes and ensuring actions are followed up on and are completed.  Ensure meeting roles, agendas and briefing documentation are in place for each meeting
• Develop a strong working relationship with the VP and their current Assistant, thinking ahead, handling priorities, anticipating needs and future challenges, proposing solutions to enable effective decision-making
• Understanding of the key stakeholders; build and maintain effective working relationships across the whole organisation
• Partner on key strategic projects with the Team of the VP and wider stakeholders
• Draft and send out team communications
• Organise and execute internal and external events for business and team events e.g. off-sites, lunches, talks, seminars, visitors
• Arrange frequent domestic and international travel for meetings, international office visits and speaking engagements e.g. hotel reservations, flight check-in, visas, detailed travel itineraries and overseas transport
• Financial administration e.g. compile expense claims, approve purchase order requests, contract creation, reimbursements, etc.
• Act as a point of contact for the VP and team, dealing with incoming requests, requiring heavy email correspondence

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• You are an established HR or OD professional, with extensive experience creating and implementing people related change programmes.
• Organisational development and design experience, you are able to lead teams from diagnostic through to a roadmap for delivery.
• Extensive people management experience, you support the development of pioneering professionals.
• You have proven experience of collaborating as part of a wider project team on a shared topic, using your knowledge to help design, plan and implement solutions.
• You have experience aligning people practices to fulfil business strategy, and where necessary building innovative HR practices and frameworks yourself.
• You have knowledge of HR topics and practices, and ideally you will also have some understanding of organisational psychology.
• As an advisor and coach, you have the courage to challenge decisions that pursue short-term goals at the expense of the overall health of the company.
• You are an excellent communicator, bringing others along with you.
• You have strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• You are open and curious, listening to feedback from others and adjusting your plans based on challenges that arise along the way.
• You are organised, and comfortable working dynamically, balancing many different tasks at varying levels of detail.
• You act with confidence and instil trust in everyone you interact with, delivering well thought through solutions - if you don’t know the answer you are tenacious in finding out.
• Create a culture where your team can operate independently, whilst seeking out opportunities to collaborate. You role model the sharing of information and demonstrate that succeed or fail, we do so as a team.
• You exemplify DeepMind’s values of pioneering responsibly and collaborating with kindness towards the mission.
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