Organisational Development & Change Specialist
A bit about the role
As an OD Specialist you’ll help shape our organisation by leading strategic initiatives to improve effectiveness, culture, and capability. You’ll work with senior leaders, Strategic Business Partners and HR to drive change, support growth, and embed new ways of working at Avaloq.
Your key tasks
- Strategic OD Consulting
Partner with HR Leadership and business leaders to diagnose organisational challenges and co-create solutions that align with Strategic People Plan. - Change & Transformation
Lead and support change initiatives, including operating model redesigns, team effectiveness, and culture change, ensuring people are at the heart of transformation. - Culture & Engagement
Shape and embed our desired culture through values-led initiatives, employee listening strategies, and inclusive practices. - Organisational Design
Support structural design and workforce planning, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and agility. - Data-Driven Insights
Use people analytics and qualitative insights to inform OD interventions, measure impact, and continuously improve. - Collaboration & Capability Building
Build OD capability across the HR and coach leaders to adopt systems thinking and adaptive leadership approaches.
A bit about you
- Proven experience in OD, change management, or HR roles within fast-paced, complex environments
- Strong consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Deep understanding of organisational systems, culture, and behavioural science
- Proven project management expertise and leading projects
- A strong customer focus, with proven capability to establish and maintain robust working relationships with senior managers up to C-suite level
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing at senior levels
- Data-literate with the ability to translate insights into action
- Curious, collaborative, and committed to continuous learning
- Fluent in English
Additional information
We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.
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Benefits
- Annual bonus or sales reward
At Avaloq we work hard to remain an industry leading provider and we love to reward our colleagues with a share of that success with an annual bonus, you will even remain eligible for annual bonus while you do the hardest job of your life – taking care of your children during parental leave.
- Flexible working
We understand that fitting your life around your job can be challenging which is why in most roles we offer flexible working to allow you to thrive both in and out of work.
- Kudos instant recognition scheme
We love to see people thriving in their roles and we have an instant recognition scheme at Avaloq to help managers reward the great work our colleagues deliver with a gift to say thanks.
- Access to Udemy for professional and personal learning
We think it is important to learn and grow professionally, but if you are someone who likes to learn outside of work we give you access to online learning for both professional and personal learning, with over 210,000 courses to choose from.
About us
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.