Strategic Value Partner - CCB | S4 | People & Culture | Milton Keynes

As a Strategic Value Partner, you will partner with the CEO of CCB (Corporate & Commercial Business) and their leadership team, aligning people strategy with business objectives. You will drive strategic initiatives across talent management, organisational design, culture, transformation and leadership development, ensuring a high performing, engaged and agile workforce. You will work closely with your stakeholders to build a deep understanding of the business goals and priorities and be the interface between the business and People & Culture to ensure our people strategies support these goals.

Core Accountabilities

• Commerciality: Develop a deep understanding of the key strategic business goals and challenges, including the commercial and people levers that influence them.
• Stakeholder Skills: Coach and influence ExCo/Senior Leaders to develop leadership capability, relationships among teams as well as deliver effective performance feedback aligned to high performance culture.
• Culture Coach: Coach and influence leaders to role model and embed the TEAMS behaviours and leadership expectations.
• Talent Management: Collaborate with senior leadership to construct, develop and implement a strategic talent approach that aligns with the SWP strategy and strategic blueprint to ensure we attract, develop and retain talent with a clear focus on succession planning.
• Change & Transformation: Provide strategic advice and counsel to the business to identify, shape and embed change and transformation activity aligned to SWP.
• Cross Collaboration: Work closely with CoEs (Talent, Culture & Reward) and the Solutions pool to prioritise and implement strategies across the business that align with workforce planning and the Strategic Blueprint including implementing Global initiatives.
• External Awareness: Horizon scan, review and benchmark internal and external environments to identify new opportunities for HR and the business.
• Data Driven: Analyse workforce trends using HR MI/data to forecast future people related requirements to support senior leaders in workforce planning and succession management, and to ensure successful people outcomes are tracked and measured.
• Employee Engagement: Leverage engagement outputs to identify key actions and priorities to positively influence the ongoing improvement of cultural shifts such as engagement, DEI and wellbeing through people priorities.
• Business Advocate: Act as the voice of the customer across P&C, building knowledge and understanding of business priorities and drivers, to ensure products and services are fit for purpose.

Qualifications

• Solid Business Partnering experience, with a strong level of technical HR depth (required).
• Significant experience in Financial Services, ideally in Corporate Banking (required).
• Proven ability to influence at ExCo level and manage complex stakeholder environments (required).
• Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions (required).
• Excellent communication, coaching and relationship building skills (required).
• Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptability, with the ability to easily adjust or change working style (required).
• Customer obsessed, with a passion for solving problems to help make our customers better happen (required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of working with a corporate and commercial business (preferred).
• Experience of strategic workforce planning, and implementing agile ways of working (preferred).
• Experience working in a large scale, global, matrix organisation (preferred).

At Santander, your contribution matters. We recognise the difference you make every day, and we make sure you feel valued, supported and rewarded in return. Here, recognition goes beyond pay. It’s about the pride you feel in your work, the impact you have on customers and communities, and the opportunities you have to grow and thrive – personally and professionally.

Benefits

• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5 years of service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company-funded individual private medical insurance.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance.
• Share in Santander's success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• Competitive rewards that reflect the real impact you make and the value you bring.
• Wellbeing that goes beyond work – access to a suite of apps, discounted gym and fitness access, weekly online classes, flexible healthcare and mental health support.
• Support for every life stage – from menopause and pregnancy to parenthood and beyond, with enhanced family leave, childcare options and tailored wellbeing support.
• Time to give back through volunteering opportunities that let you make a difference in the communities we serve.
• Global growth opportunities to shape your career, learn new skills and explore what’s possible across our international network.

At Santander, we’re proud to be an inclusive organisation that provides equal opportunities for everyone – regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation.