Organizational Development Consultant

Overview:

The Organization Development (OD) Consultant will support the organization in reviewing, refining, and executing an effective organizational structure aligned with business strategy, operational requirements, and future growth ambitions. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role, responsible not only for design but for practical execution within defined timelines.

The engagement requires direct experience within entertainment, large-scale events, sports organizations, and venue management environments, operating in complex, high-visibility organizations. The Consultant is expected to build from the existing organizational structure, not design in isolation, ensuring continuity, clarity, and operational feasibility.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Organizational Diagnosis & Baseline Review

· Review and validate the current approved organizational structure, reporting lines, and governance framework

· Assess alignment between business strategy, operating model, workforce structure, and operational realities

· Conduct structured interviews and working sessions with senior leadership and key stakeholders

· Identify gaps, overlaps, inefficiencies, role duplication, and unclear accountabilities

· Benchmark against UAE and regional best practices, specifically within entertainment, large-scale events, sports entities, and venue-based operations

Organizational Structure Design & Execution

· Develop a future-state organizational structure built from the existing baseline and aligned with strategic objectives

· Define clear reporting lines, spans of control, role purpose, and accountability frameworks

· Design practical structure options that support scalability, agility, and decision-making in operational environments

· Ensure the structure fully supports entertainment operations, major event delivery, sports organizations, and venue management models

· Work proactively with Human Capital and Finance to validate feasibility, cost implications, and implementation readiness

Delivery Management & Implementation

· Own a clear delivery plan with defined milestones, timelines, and dependencies

· Actively drive execution, not just recommendation, including stakeholder alignment and issue resolution

· Provide regular progress updates, risks, and mitigation plans to the HCED

· Support implementation readiness, including transition planning and change impacts

Job Specifications:

The Consultant must demonstrate:

· Mid–senior level experience in organization design, operating model review, or restructuring

· A hands-on delivery approach, with evidence of executing and implementing org structures (not advisory-only roles)

· Proven experience within entertainment companies, large-scale event organizations, sports entities, and/or venue operators

· Ability to work proactively, independently, and at pace, within clearly defined delivery timelines

· Experience building on existing organizational structures while improving clarity, efficiency, and governance

Additional Advantage (Strongly Preferred):

· Familiarity with Mercer and/or Alvarez & Marsal job architecture and salary frameworks, including grading, role leveling, and benchmarking methodologies

· Proven capability to assess and articulate the organizational impact of merger activities:

· Evaluating changes to operating models, structures, roles, and workforce costs.

· Identifying integration outcomes, risks, and value realization gaps

· Assessing duplication, capability overlaps or shortfalls, and governance effectiveness

· Translating merger impacts into clear recommendations to optimize structure, decision-making, and post-merger performance.

· Proven capability to assess organizational and workforce impacts of spin-offs or separations

· Standalone readiness, operating model and governance effectiveness

· Workforce transition outcomes, and operational continuity risks

· Translating insights into recommendations that enable autonomy, scalability, and sustainable post-separation performance.

· Proven capability to design and execute end-to-end change management initiatives

· Drive change impact assessments, stakeholder mapping, communication and engagement planning and adoption monitoring / tracking.

· Ensuring changes to structure, roles, processes, and systems are effectively embedded, risks are managed, and business continuity and performance are sustained throughout the transition.