People Data Design Lead

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We’re looking for a People Data Design Lead to play a key role in shaping how people data supports transformation across HR. This is a unique opportunity to combine data expertise with change and stakeholder engagement, working across a range of complex initiatives that impact how the organisation operates. You’ll work at the heart of HR transformation, ensuring data design, reporting and governance are aligned to business objectives, regulatory expectations and great user outcomes. This role suits someone who enjoys influencing decisions, working collaboratively and bringing clarity to complex data challenges.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the delivery of HR change initiatives by defining and shaping people data requirements
• Designing data models, reporting frameworks and data solutions aligned to enterprise principles
• Analysing and interpreting complex datasets to inform decision-making and design choices
• Partnering with HR, change and technical teams to align data design with business processes and operating models
• Identifying data risks, gaps and dependencies and driving appropriate mitigation
• Facilitating stakeholder workshops and gathering requirements across multiple initiatives
• Influencing and challenging stakeholders to ensure effective and practical data-led decisions
• Supporting the development of reporting and self-service solutions that meet user and programme needs

Who we’re looking for:

• Experience delivering data or transformation initiatives, ideally within HR or people data environments
• Strong understanding of data design, data governance and reporting principles
• Proven ability to work across multiple projects and manage competing priorities
• Experience engaging and influencing a range of stakeholders across business and technical teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence presenting ideas and challenging constructively
• Experience working with tools such as Excel, Oracle reporting or similar platforms (desirable)
• Awareness of emerging technologies such as AI, automation or machine learning in a data context (desirable)

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net-zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in-person experience

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.