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Lenmed invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the following position

Lenmed Head Office I Head: Organisation Effectiveness

DEPARTMENT

People and Culture

JOB TITLE

Lenmed Head Office I Head: Organisation Effectiveness

CLOSING DATE

2026/06/04

HOSPITAL

Lenmed Head Office

WORK ADDRESS

Lenmed Head Office - 2nd Floor, Building, 9 Lakeview Ave, Weltevredenpark, Roodepoort, 1709

Main Focus Areas

Vacancy Lenmed Head Office I Head: Organisation Effectiveness

 

Lenmed is a respected and fast-growing healthcare group committed to delivering world-class clinical outcomes and exceptional patient care. As a proudly global organisation with a growing international presence, including recent expansion into the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) states, we are deeply invested in the communities we serve and the dedicated professionals who bring our vision to life.

 

Guided by our vision to be a leading global provider of person-centred healthcare driven by compassion, excellence, and innovation, we place people at the heart of everything we do. Our purpose is to create healthy and prosperous communities that inspires us to go beyond care, working collaboratively to ensure sustainable impact across every region we serve.

 

About us:

 

At Lenmed, our strength lies in our people, skilled, compassionate individuals committed to accessible, innovative healthcare. We foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and personal growth, supported by strong leadership and a clear strategic direction.

 

Role Summary:

 

To lead and institutionalise organisational effectiveness practices that bring the Lenmed operating model to life, ensuring it is embedded, scalable, and consistently applied across head office and hospitals. This role strengthens organisational design, ways of working, decision rights, governance rhythms, capability maturity, and change adoption to drive clarity, accountability, and execution discipline.

Partnering with Exco, functional heads, hospital leadership, and P&C, the role ensures that structures, leadership practices, and accountability mechanisms enable sustainable performance, high-quality service delivery, and long-term growth.

 

 

Key Performance Areas: (include but are not limited to)

The successful candidate will perform, inter alia, the following key performance areas:

Key Performance Areas

 

  • Operationalise and embed the Lenmed operating model by translating design intent into practical ways of working, governance routines, decision rights, and accountability mechanisms that enable seamless execution across Lenmed’s corporate Office and hospitals, with a focus on:

 

    • Defining, documenting, and embedding governance forums, decision rights, escalation pathways, and operating rhythms.

 

    • Improving alignment between the corporate office and hospitals by reducing friction, duplication, delayed decisions, and unnecessary escalations.

 

    • Strengthening leadership clarity on accountability, handovers, ownership, and cross-functional ways of working.

 

  • Lead enterprise organisation design and effectiveness initiatives that ensure structures, roles, spans of control, reporting lines, and accountabilities are strategically aligned, efficient, and able to support growth, service delivery, and patient outcomes, including:
    • Delivering organisation design initiatives through clear diagnostics, options analysis, recommendations, and approved implementation plans.
    • Ensuring organograms, role profiles, job descriptions, RACIs, and accountability frameworks are current, approved, and centrally governed.
    • Improving role clarity, reducing overlap, and strengthening alignment between structure, strategy, and execution.

 

  • Strengthen performance enablement and accountability by ensuring role outcomes, key responsibilities, success measures, and leadership expectations are clearly defined and consistently applied across functions and hospitals, through:
  • Defining clear outcomes, success measures, and decision/accountability expectations for priority roles.
  • Embedding performance management tools, guidance, and routines that support consistency, fairness, and execution discipline.
  • Building manager capability and confidence in setting expectations, giving feedback, and holding effective performance conversations.

 

  • Lead change enablement for strategic people and operating model initiatives by building structured adoption plans, stakeholder strategies, change toolkits, communication plans, that translate change into sustained practice, including:
    • Supporting priority initiatives with change impact assessments, adoption plans, stakeholder maps, and readiness interventions.
    • Measuring adoption through pulse checks, feedback loops, focus groups, and agreed leading indicators.
    • Identifying resistance, change fatigue, and implementation risks early, with targeted mitigation actions.

 

  • Build leadership effectiveness and execution discipline by designing interventions that improve decision-making, collaboration, accountability, team effectiveness, and leadership routines, with emphasis on:
    • Delivering leadership interventions that improve follow-through, meeting effectiveness, accountability, and engagement indicators.
    • Strengthening cross-functional collaboration through clearer interfaces, handovers, escalation paths, and decision forums.
    • Reinforcing leadership routines and behaviours required to make the operating model work in practice.

 

  • Generate organisational effectiveness insights through diagnostics, workforce analytics, structure reviews, engagement themes, and organisational health reporting that support evidence-based leadership decisions, including:
    • Presenting OE dashboards, insights, and recommendations to EXCO and leadership forums at agreed intervals.
    • Translating diagnostics into practical, prioritised actions with clear owners and tracked follow-through.
    • Using organisational data to inform structure decisions, capability priorities, risk mitigation, and targeted interventions.

 

  • Shape culture, engagement, and ways of working by defining and reinforcing the behaviours, leadership practices, and collaboration norms required to deliver the Lenmed strategy and operating model, through:
    • Implementing culture and engagement interventions in priority areas with measurable improvement.
    • Defining, communicating, and embedding expected behaviours and ways of working into leadership routines.
    • Improving employee understanding of expectations, accountability, collaboration across Lenmed.

 

 

Post Requirements: (include but are not limited to)

Minimum Required Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Organisational Psychology, HR, Business, Industrial Engineering, or related field (Master’s Degree would be advantageous).
  • 8–10+ years experience across organisational effectiveness / OD / operating model / organisation design / business transformation.
  • Experience in a multi-site environment (e.g., hospitals/clinics/branches) preferred.

 

Inherent Requirements

  • Strong capability in operating model implementation, including governance structures, decision rights, RACI frameworks, service delivery interfaces, and handover processes.
  • Proven experience in organisation design, including structures, spans and layers, role profiling, and exposure to job architecture.
  • Sound knowledge of change management, including stakeholder mapping, communications, training enablement, and adoption tracking.
  • Ability to facilitate leadership and team effectiveness interventions, including workshops, alignment sessions, and leadership routines.
  • Experience in organisational diagnostics and analytics, including organisational health, engagement insights, and productivity or efficiency indicators.
  • Ability to align performance enablement practices by linking roles, outcomes, success measures, and performance processes.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage workstream leaders, provide updates, and manage current project matters effectively.

 

Personal Attributes

  • Strategic thinker: Anticipates organisational needs and connects structure, ways of working, and capability requirements to strategic priorities and business outcomes.
  • Systems-oriented: Understands the broader impact of decisions across hospitals, functions, governance forums, workflows, and service delivery.
  • Change leader: Builds adoption through practical planning, stakeholder empathy, clear communication, and disciplined execution.
  • Influential stakeholder partner: Secures alignment and buy-in from EXCO, functional heads, hospital leadership, and key decision-makers.
  • Collaborative partner: Works effectively across P&C Centres of Excellence, HR Operations, Business Partners, and operational leadership teams.
  • Analytical and pragmatic: Uses diagnostics, insights, and data to guide priorities while balancing robust design with practical implementation.
  • Execution-focused: Drives outcomes with clarity, accountability, follow-through, and a strong focus on delivery.

 

Application Process:

If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference in healthcare and meet the requirements for this critical leadership role, we invite you to bring your expertise, your heart, and your commitment to excellence to Lenmed. Join us in shaping a healthier, more prosperous future for our patients, our communities, and our people.

 

Candidates who meet the minimum criteria will be subjected to an interview and evaluation process. Please note that previous employers and references will be contacted, and qualifications, credit, and criminal records will be verified. Candidates will also be required to disclose all financial interests.

 

To apply, please submit a covering letter, a comprehensive CV, original certified copies of your qualifications, ID document, and driver’s license. Kindly include the names and contact details of three references from current and previous employers.

Applications must be submitted via e-mail to Bhavani Jeena, Head of People and Culture – grouphr.administrator@lenmed.co.za

 

Correspondence will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. If you do not receive a response within 3 months from closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

Closing Date: 04 June 2026

Please Note:

Candidates must ensure that their contact details are correct and that they can be contacted during office hours. If candidates are not contacted within thirty (30) days after the closing date, they should consider their applications as being unsuccessful. Late, incomplete and applications not indicating the applicable position will not be considered. The right to fill the position within the Operational requirements of the Company is reserved. By applying for this position and providing us with your CV and other personal information, you are consenting to the information being used for the specific purpose for which it was provided, which is recruitment purposes and possible appointment purposes(should you be successful). Please note that your information will be processed for recruitment purposes only or for such purposes relating to assessing the establishment of an employment relationship with yourself, and this will be in accordance with the applicable data protection and privacy legislation. We confirm that such information will not be used for any other purpose without obtaining your prior consent. If your application is not successful, we retain your CV and other information provided of 6 months after which it will be destroyed in a secure manner. If you object to your information being used in accordance with the aforementioned clauses, please indicate your objection and we will immediately destroy your personal information in a secure manner. Equal opportunity is supported by the Employer.

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