Job description
We're one of the UK's leading investment management companies, with responsibility for over £44 billion of client assets. We've worked closely with clients and their trusted advisers for many years and gained a unique understanding of the specific needs of our clients.
Investec Wealth & Investment seeks to deliver exceptional levels of customer service and has been trusted to meet the needs of private investors for almost 200 years. But our eyes are focused on your future.
Right now we're a team of over 1400 dedicated professionals located across 14 sites in the UK. We're looking to strengthen our team and need you to come on board and make a difference.
Description of role, purpose and key responsibilities
The People Consulting team operate to empower leaders to both manage the talent of Investec effectively and look after the Investec experience for our people throughout their entire career journey. The team lead on resource planning and management, contracting, mobility, succession, culture work and career development. We have a continuous focus on developing self-sustaining leader-led processes.
We are a trusted specialist group of People Consultants that originate change through thought leadership across the Wealth business. We understand the complexities of our businesses and the importance of our culture, whilst remaining commercial and relevant in our work.
As People Consultants, we are the trusted advisors that operate to empower our leaders and people, supporting them to self-organise and align to the overall strategic objectives of the organisation.
We are closely connected to all areas of the P&O community and strive to be agile, adaptable and holistic in our approach to ensure our work is the right work to support the business strategy and the needs of our leaders. We work closely with the P&O Lead for Wealth and help to implement the business strategy through apeople and organisational perspective. We continually strive to improve our processes to deliver to our leaders in a way that avoids duplication and leverages across the Group. All of this to ensure we give the very best employee experience.
We are the ambassadors for delivering exceptional employee experience and championing the employee voice.
We do all of this through a lens of belonging, inclusion and diversity to ensure that we enable equality of opportunity
What are we looking for in you?
- Be a professional who can apply generalist knowledge and experience with confidence to promote exceptional performance
- You will be comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting involved in the detail as needed.
- Strong relationship skills and comfortable working in an environment with tight deadlines and imperfect information (working in the grey)
- Be an active learner, naturally inquisitive and bringing thought leadership, market knowledge, and external insight
- Ideally have experience working in a transitional M&A environment where you have planned and executed key communication and engagement initiatives e.g. temp checks
- Experience of Integration planning, ensuring retention of employees and combining organisations and culture will play a key part of this role
- Experience of managing multi-disciplined transformation projects would be an advantage
- You will have an understanding of HR transformation, HR strategy, talent management, change management, organisational design and target operating models.
- You will be familiar with high performing cultures and be a strategic thinker who is able to see the entire system and make recommendations accordingly.
- Work collaboratively in a team environment by understanding when you lead and when to follow
- Building and maintaining strong relationships is critical to this role, managing various stakeholder views and finding ways to seek consensus and move towards action
- Ideally have coaching experience
- Championing the candidate and employee voice and not being afraid to be heard
Does this sound like the role for you? Click apply today and the Careers Team will be in touch shortly!
Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.
We want our people to feel empowered to be themselves in an environment that supports them, enabling them to perform in “out of the ordinary” ways. Our culture places belonging and inclusion at its centre and our work environment is integral to this. If you require any adjustments to support you through the recruitment process, as well as supportive and flexible working arrangements to help you succeed with us, please let our recruitment team know.
Research shows that some candidates can be reluctant to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit here and welcome you to do the same – if the role excites you, please don't let our person specification hold you back. Get in touch!