Senior HR Business Partner in City of London

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

Context for the role: To support the CHRO and the Asset Management HRD in the delivery of the M&G Plc HR agenda and to support the design and delivery of the Asset Management specific people plan, focusing on 4 core pillars of:

• Organisation Design and People Change
• Culture & Engagement
• Talent & Capability
• Performance and Reward

The role will predominantly support the Asset Management Head of Client Group and Head of Product and their respective teams. There are circa 450 colleagues based across approximately 16 countries (UK, US, Asia and Europe).

The Role: As a Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll work directly with senior leaders, acting as the go-to expert and trusted advisor on a wide range of people issues. You’ll be a key champion for the people agenda, collaborating across the HR function to deliver solutions that drive success. You’ll also empower leadership teams, building their confidence and capability through your guidance, coaching, and strategic insight.

As a trusted partner you will build effective relationships with your stakeholders, and a deep understanding of the people implications and requirements impacting the business strategy, ensuring that both short and longer term requirements are addressed. You will have a “seat at the leadership table”, ensure effective delivery of a complex and varied agenda, whilst helping to build an inclusive and progressive culture across your business areas/client groups.

To be successful in this role, you will have a very strong track record in successfully partnering, coaching and influencing senior leaders within your business areas/client groups. You will have the ability to work autonomously and have deep experience across a broad range of HR disciplines, including organisational design, transformation, culture development, talent and succession management, engagement, and reward. You will be highly commercial, driven to make a difference and willing to take a proactive, hands-on approach to getting things done, including driving change and improvement in complex environments.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Build a deep understanding of the business areas/client groups strategy, business goals and priorities.
• Partner closely with Leadership teams to develop and implement strategic people and culture initiatives (People Strategy) that support delivery of the business strategy.
• Coach, support and act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on all people-related matters.
• Lead the delivery of HR projects/change & transformation initiatives to support delivery of the People Strategy.
• Provide HR insights and solutions in the delivery of the business strategy and People Strategy, drawing on people data and analytics.
• Lead the recruitment of senior leadership, working in partnership with the Resourcing team.
• Proactively use key people metrics (including absence, attrition, hiring, disciplinary, grievances, etc.) to provide insight and solutions to business areas/client groups.
• Embed talent management across business areas/client groups, support leaders to attract, develop and retain senior talent and build effective succession pipelines, working with the Talent & OE function to input to wider business Talent initiatives.
• Work with leadership teams to embed a high-performance culture, develop and deliver engagement, and DEI and Wellness approaches, that deliver tangible improvement to the employee experience across business areas/client groups.
• Lead the implementation of key cyclical HR processes within business areas/client groups, including performance management, pay reviews, Group-wide talent reviews.
• Facilitate the people aspects of mergers, acquisitions, disposals, etc.
• Coordinate and work with country HR teams to deliver business activities.
• Provide innovative, informed and pragmatic solutions to a variety of complex HR issues taking full account of internal policies, HR best practice, legislative practice, and equality and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with the HR Centres of Expertise (CoE) to ensure they understand the requirements of the business areas/client groups, at all levels.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the Group HR Function, collaborating closely with HR CoE and HR Services.
• Take personal accountability to maintain and enhance effective controls to support the improvement of the overall HR control environment, customer/client outcomes and to reduce operational risk.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience – you are/have:

• A proven track record in HR Business Partnering, within asset management, and financial or professional services.
• A strategic and commercial mindset - able to understand the Asset Management business, thinks strategically and commercially.
• Deep HR technical knowledge – across a broad range of HR specialisms, including leadership development, organisation design, change management, employee relations, senior talent acquisition, diversity & inclusion, etc.
• Organisational sense – deals comfortably with organisational politics, can manage through organisational complexity to get things done in the right way.
• Collaborative - willing to work effectively with others across complex, matrixed organisations and geographies. Able to build partnerships with others to get work done.
• Strong problem solving skills – with strong analytical skills and an ability to interpret data to identify key trends, emerging risks, etc.
• Able to manage complexity and ambiguity – operates effectively, even when the way forward is not clear.
• Curious – able to spot opportunities and act to implement change quickly.
• Well-developed listening and communication skills – presents information in a confident and clear way which meets the needs of the audience.
• Drives results – moves to action and delivers required outcomes.
• Resilient – persistent and resilient in the face of challenge. Rebounds easily from set-backs.
• Prepared to travel – and work in relevant locations to provide facetime to your business areas/client groups.
• Consulting skills - including planning and project/workstream management skills.
• Data literate – is comfortable finding relevant data sources to inform diagnostics and decision making.
• Relationship Building, stakeholder management and networking skills.
• Able to work autonomously.
• Invested in your self-development.
• Coaching and facilitation skills.

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. Being a Disability Confident Leader means that candidates who meet the minimum criteria of a job, will be offered an interview if they opt in to the scheme when applying.

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