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Would you like the opportunity to work in a high performing HR Team, supporting senior leaders within the Retail division in Legal and General?

If you are a Senior HR Business Partner that has worked in an agile environment, within aa large matrix organisation, and has strategically partnered at MD level, then this is a fantastic opportunity to join the L&G Retail HR Team.

In this exciting role, you’ll be partnering with members of the Retail Executive and their leadership teams. You’ll lead on strategic HR focus areas providing thought leadership, strategic advice, and operational delivery, collaborating across the Retail Division and Group HR functions.

You’ll be joining a division with a big agenda around culture, where the people priority is the front and centre to our strategy, and you’ll have an excellent opportunity to bring in new skills and ways of thinking. You’ll also have excellent exposure to senior leaders within the division, working both autonomous and collaborative with your wider team to shape your role and the wider people strategy. This is a well-regarded, high performing team, that are friendly and easy to work with. The division is very diverse ranging from starts up’s to established businesses, working across a variety of different markets.

• Provide proactive support and challenge to the leadership teams on all aspects of people, transformational organisation design and development, delivering on the people aspects of the business plan deliverables.
• Drive the development and implementation of Retail and Group HR and Retail HR Focus Areas, through active participation and by leading people programme projects when appropriate/necessary. Examples for 2023 are Performance Culture and HR Transformation.
• Provide guidance and cost-effective HR solutions to the business on employee engagement, re-organisations, talent and succession management, learning & development, performance management and resource and reward planning with an inclusion and diversity commitment paramount throughout.
• Drive and support the organisation wide focus on talent management and development, including the facilitation of the relevant business areas talent and succession planning activity and promotion of internal mobility
• Support the annual cycle of people activity, including talent review, pay review, strategic workforce planning, performance management and employee engagement activity.
• Ensure Employee Relations climate is understood within the business area and work closely with Unite, MCF, local reps and managers to champion and demonstrate working in partnership and its benefits.
• With the support of the Reward team, develop and implement appropriate reward strategies for the relevant business areas.
• Design and implement HR policies, giving sufficient emphasis that the fair treatment of customers and delivering good outcomes to them is central to our corporate culture

To be successful in this role you’ll need to be a pro-active and comfortable working at a fast paced. Being a curious and creative person is highly beneficial as you look to seek opportunity to make improvements and introduce new ways of working. Given the level of stakeholder that you will be partnering, your communication skills are key, and you’ll need to be comfortable challenging at senior level, as well as having a high resilience.

Here’s some of the experience that we’d love to see:

• Experience of leading transformational organisational change with a focus on organisation design, development, talent management and culture change in a unionised environment
• Influencing senior leadership teams on people and cultural matters and linking this to business strategy.
• Development of HR strategy, planning and the subsequent implementation
• Experience of a range of organisational development techniques to drive engagement, business performance and culture change.
• Demonstrated conceptual, analytical, and strategic thinking abilities.
• Financial Services industry experience preferable or demonstrable evidence of learning agility between industries in terms of career experience
• Previous experience and proven success in implementing and working within an agile culture.

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including 30 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), an annual supplement for private medical insurance, generous pension scheme, life assurance, and a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, and there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centered ambitions.

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Alex Adams at [email protected] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-adams-29b595a3/).

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.