Lead People Partner

Our People Team are recruiting and are looking for an experienced Lead People Partner to join them on a 12 month basis.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for a collaborative and progressive HR professional with experience of working proactively with senior leaders, to support our Chief Commercial Office. The role will form a strong partnership with the function’s leadership teams to develop and deliver a people plan that achieves strategic business-focussed solutions. In addition, a key focus of the role will be shaping and delivering organistional change as the organisation goes through a period of integration.

The role holder will be responsible for coaching, guiding and challenge senior leaders, including the Executive Team, on all things People and Culture and act as a trusted partner and champion of our people vision.

This role offers real variety, driving priorities such as: improving leadership and management capability, progressing our inclusion and diversity ambitions and navigating through organisational change.

Working closely with the wider People Team this role is responsible for ensuring that the people aspects of the Society’s strategy are planned and delivered to an exceptional level. This includes working closely with other members of the People Partnering Team and coaching and mentoring our People Advisors, who they will work closely with.

Being a catalyst for change and responsible for identifying areas of opportunity, within the areas you work with and more widely across the Society will be key parts of the role. It will also lead or oversee people initiatives and projects from inception through to delivery as well as tracking and monitoring the progress of initiatives and ensure projects are delivered to time, budget and aligned to our values.

The role can be based in either Manchester or our Head Office campus in Binley, Coventry but travel will be required to both locations. A team-led hybrid working arrangement is in place.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
• Private medical insurance

About you

To be successful you’ll be passionate about being part of an organisation that cares about member and colleague experience.

To be successful in this role it’s essential that you will have:

• Excellent knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice
• Experience of HR knowledge pragmatically to achieve business outcomes.
• Experience of organisation design and change implementation
• CIPD qualification or equivalent
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to influence key decision makers

Desirable experience needed will be:

• Experience of developing policies and procedures

About us

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns.Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

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