Group HR Technology Change Lead – 18 Month Secondment

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.

We’re recruiting for a Group HR Technology Change Lead to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary, 12% car allowance and strong benefits package.

The Group HR Technology Change Lead will drive and oversee the people impacts for the transformation of the Technology Function across Legal & General.

What you'll be doing:

• Partnering with the Group Functions HR Director, Group CTO, Technology Transformation Director and other workstream leads in developing and delivering a robust and effective organisation model
• Acting as a thought partner to the Group Functions HR Director, Group CTO and Technology Transformation Director ensuring that people-related change plans and actions are executed on time, to budget and to a high quality, challenging stakeholders where required
• Partnering with the Technology workstream leads and ensuring that cultural impacts of transformation are fully understood and built into the transformation across all stages
• Briefing the Group Functions HRD, Group CTO and Technology Transformation Director on any people risks and transformation dependencies
• Driving forward change at an organisational level and supporting implementation plans ranging from new operating models, new organisation structures and the design and delivery of training and capability build programs
• Ensuring effective communication plans are in place with clearly mapped out stakeholder engagement maps and robust people communication

Who we're looking for:

• Previous experience as an HR Director or Senior HRBP driving forward complex change programmes  
• Excellent knowledge of best practice transformation methodologies
• Extensive organisation design experience
• Experience of successfully delivery large-scale HR projects and change programmes, including technology implementation and process redesign
• Highly effective understanding of project and planning methodologies
• HR/Change experience of technology functions would be advantageous
• Highly effective influencing and negotiating skills with stakeholders up to Board level
• Ability to work with confidence in a high paced environment and switch between different and evolving projects

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.