HR Business Partner (Alex Adams)

Securing pensions over the long term can be a challenge for many businesses. Our ambition at Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is to help companies and pension scheme trustees honour their defined benefit pension promises to their employees. We’re helping companies settle their pension liabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses, as well as supporting their members’ financial security in retirement. And we’re investing for the long term to back our pension promises. In the last 30 years we’ve written more UK business than any other insurer, and we currently look after more than half a million pension policyholders. We're the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider, and a market-leading, multi-award winning business.

Would you like to be an HR Business Partner in one of the most exciting, high growth, and high-profile divisions in Legal and General? If you have generalist HR knowledge, and the ability to partner with a variety of stakeholders in a matrix environment, then this is a fantastic opportunity for you to join the team as an HR Business Partner. Reporting to the Senior HRBP, you will support our busy and fast paced business through a period of heightened ambition; delivering expert advice linked to our people agenda that is designed to support our business objectives and ambitions. You will contribute to the success of the people strategy through the delivery of appropriate, commercially focused advice to ensure desired business outcomes.

Working both autonomously and supporting the Senior HRBP, you will partner with the wider LGRI HR team and LGRI’s leadership teams to develop, influence, lead and deliver the HR priorities for the business, and ensure that HR services are delivered to your client groups whilst maintaining an independent, organisational-wide corporate perspective. This role is full of opportunity for to develop and grow. You’ll be working a variety of tasks that include leading on the future career strategy and leading on the division’s global mobility approach. It’s a flexible working environment, with lots of autonomy, giving you the opportunity to act as true partner to the business.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be able to demonstrate the drive and initiative to be effective autonomously as well as being a collaborative team player. You’ll be partnering with a variety of stakeholders so you’ll benefit from being a confident, clear communicator (both written and oral) with strong interpersonal skills and a can-do attitude. Here’s some of the key experience and skills that we’d love to see:

• An excellent HR generalist knowledge, with a proven track record of working within an HR environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence managers on HR matters and link this to business strategy.
• Understanding of a range of organisational development techniques to drive engagement, business performance and culture change.
• Strong drive for results, action oriented, and experience of driving HR projects through to completion.
• You must have a sound understanding of employment law, generic HR Policies, and procedures.
• Experience of working in a large matrix organisation would be desirable.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contribute to the development of the overall People Plan, through active participation and by leading people programme projects where appropriate.
• Provide cost effective HR solutions to the business on employee engagement, organisational design/restructuring, talent and succession management, learning & development, performance management and resource planning.
• 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.
• Support the delivery of the learning and development strategy working with the relevant business leadership and COE to oversee appropriate development interventions.
• Support the annual cycle of people activity, including pay review, performance calibration and employee survey.
• Identify “people issues” and develop appropriate solutions, drawing on support from internal centres of excellence and HR colleagues e.g., absence management, retention, performance, engagement.
• Identify, analyse, and interpret people related MI for the purpose of influencing business unit plans and effectively implementing the right business solutions.
• Provide effective advice and coaching to business stakeholders to drive greater accountability and line management responsibility.
• As a subject matter expert, provide advice to managers on the implementation of people policies to ensure they are used within both our principles and the spirit of UK employment law.

Our commitment to equal opportunities: 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.

Job Location: London, One Coleman Street.