Advanced People Analytics Lead

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

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.

Are you passionate about leveraging predictive models and AI to drive impactful HR insights? We are seeking a dynamic person to join our forward-thinking HR Analytics team which is responsible for delivering strategic insights and advanced analytics to key stakeholders including the senior management team, HR, divisional team leaders.

As a pivotal member of the team, you will work closely with the Head of People Analytics to contribute to significant projects for workforce strategy in collaboration with the Group DS team. You will also manage the AI workstream, advising on and implementing AI solutions to enhance our tech stack, including engaging in AI conversations with external vendors.

If you are excited about contributing to highly visible insights projects and leading the way in AI and predictive modelling within HR, we would love to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Leading advanced people analytics, data science projects, and AI/GenAI solutions, partnering with senior HR, Finance, and business leaders to align on KPIs and productivity measures
• Developing data and analytics models, visualizations, and solutions that are actionable and valuable, enabling informed decision-making and future readiness
• Providing data-driven insights and recommendations to influence strategy and stakeholder decisions, including ROI and impact analysis
• Supporting the Strategic Workforce Planning cycle by assessing future capability and capacity requirements, ensuring accurate headcount planning and forecasting
• Conducting analysis, modelling, and forecasting to align business plans with workforce needs, identifying gaps, and developing strategies to address them
• Representing the People Data, Workforce Planning & Insights team across the Group, driving a data-driven culture and supporting the implementation of the People Data and Analytics strategy
• Ensuring KPIs and measures align with company culture and policies, supporting key projects and maintaining ethical data governance and compliance

Who we're looking for:

• Practical application in designing and implementing complex data structures, strong logic and analytical skills, including data analysis and problem solving
• Expert knowledge and practical application of advanced data analytics, visualisation and reporting using various tools
• Experience in PowerBI and Alteryx is desirable
• First-hand knowledge and application of predictive modelling and statistical methods (Python much preferred) and a familiarity with AI & GenAI concepts, tools and prompt engineering
• Ability to use data and analytics to drive workforce planning
• Confidence in playing a central role in business discussions and ensuring analytical outputs are business relevant
• Ability to work across multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously

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   
• Private medical insurance (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 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming 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 strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.