Business Partner - LMBU - North, null

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St. James’s Place (SJP) works in partnership to plan, grow and protect our clients’ financial futures. We deliver personalised, face-to-face financial advice to our clients, who trust us to manage their money to reach their goals. We provide this service via the Partnership, a network of qualified, expert advisors. We put financial wellbeing and responsible business choices at the heart of everything we do. We believe in the value of difference and know that diverse teams can help us problem solve and innovate for clients.

We look for people to join SJP to make an impact and to contribute to our culture which is based around long term relationships, doing the right thing, and being the best version of ourselves.

Location: North of England – this role requires regular travel and allows for working from home when appropriate.

Workplace Type: Remote

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

Financial Services experience preferred, but not essential.

The main purpose of this role is to lead a professional B2B relationship with the Large and Medium Business Units (LMBU) Partner businesses. Building and maintaining strong positive relationships, you will deliver a range of strategic, commercial and business planning advice and guidance, through authentic understanding of key business needs.

What you will be doing:

• Ensuring our business and relationship management approach is embedded and utilised with all LMBU practices, through robust business planning and regular reviews.
• Designing business improvement solutions and programmes of coherent support and consultancy with the aim of delivering successful measurable outcomes: high quality, profitable and well run businesses.
• Shaping and deploying the One LMBU approach to business partnering, including the utilisation of diagnostics, data, business growth and improvement frameworks.
• Driving discipline, structure, consistency and accountability both within the Business Partnering team and across functional teams.
• Reviewing, measuring and assessing the efficiency of relationships and tangible return on investment of each Partner relationship.

We’re looking for a candidate with:

• Excellent listening, communication and relationship building skills, ability to adapt to each audience and build trust and confidence with Partners.
• Experience of delivering successful outcomes through influencing, strategic planning and commercial thinking.
• Solution and outcome focused approach and ability to utilise local insight and data to shape informed decisions.
• Ability to demonstrate discipline and precision when diagnosing problems and designing innovative solutions aligned to business/client needs.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring key stakeholders within LMBU, gaining respect and credibility at senior levels both internally and externally.
• Ability to lead and deliver projects, ensuring timescales are met and clear objectives are set and considered at all times.

What’s in it for you?

• Private Medical paid for by Company.
• Meaningful protection benefits with real value, such as 10X life cover, PHI, and critical illness.*
• Non-Contributory Pension – 10% (increasing with length of service up to 15%) with further pension matching.
• Parental leave – 6 months full pay
• 28 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays (based on full-time equivalent) with the option to buy up to an additional 5 days holiday

*Not applicable to Fixed-Term Contracts (standard uplift applies in lieu of the protection benefits)

Flexible Working
We know that everyone works best in different ways, at different times and in different environments. We have introduced a hybrid working policy to provide greater flexibility for part-time work, job-sharing, remote working, and flexibility on hours. Our people are encouraged to work in a flexible way that suits their lifestyle, so please ask the question and start a conversation!

Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.

Reasonable Adjustments
We’re an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all. If you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at.

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