HR Business Partner

The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.

Your role at a glance

Would you like the opportunity to be a HR Business Partner for one of Europe’s largest Asset Managers?

If you are a seasoned HR Business Partner, with experience partnering with senior stakeholders from either Tech, Data, or Operations business areas, then this is a fantastic opportunity to join the Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) team.

Reporting into the Senior HRBP for LGIM, Global Chief Operating Office, (GCOO) and based in London on a hybrid working arrangement, you’ll partner a varied client group (incl. Digital and Technology, Data and Investment Operations) in the UK and overseas (primarily.US) to develop, influence, lead and deliver all HR priorities. In your role you’ll deliver with the strong engagement, collaboration, and support from the broader UK and US-based LGIM HR teams, Group HR functions, and tax, legal and policy specialist support.

What you'll be doing

Strategy & Planning

• Support the Senior HRBP in driving the development and implementation of the HR Priorities to enable LGIM’s Strategic Pillars (Modernise, Diversify, Internationalise).
• Actively participate and/or lead activities that include talent management and development, organisational design, performance and employee development, reward and pay review, strategic workforce and capability planning, employee relations and policy development and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Actively contribute to LGIM’s HR strategy and its implementation. And support the delivery of L&G organisation-wide HR priorities, in support of the overall HR offering to business.
• Proactively identify, analyse and interpret ‘people’ related MI to solution and influence HR
• Lead and deliver comprehensive leadership, talent and development strategies that support the identification, development and retention of talent, optimal levels capability and strong leadership and succession in the business.

Relationship and Stakeholder Management

• Influence, challenge and pro-actively support business leadership teams on all aspects of people and organisational development and contribute to their business plans. And use skills of judgement and risk assessment in this support.
• Build strong relationships with the business where the HRBP role is established as a contributing member, adding significant value to the business strategy.
• Builds strong relationships within LGIM HR and across both Group HR functions and L&G HR functions.
• Encourage co-operation and communication within peer group and across teams and shares key initiatives to drive corporate goals in and across LGIM, Group HR functions and L&G HR functions.

Service Delivery Excellence

• Keep abreast of the recruitment activity and be actively involved in key senior hiring, influencing the selection process and methodologies adopted. Working with Finance partners, manage the resource planning and provide input into the annual budget, ensuring balance between cost efficiencies, organizational requirements and optimal performance.
• Facilitate talent management activities aligned with LGIM defined framework, and ensure all managers are equipped to engage, develop and retain their talent, and have robust succession planning in place.
• Lead on people related organisational change requirements, in partnership with Group Employee Relations and the union, Unite, where relevant.
• Ensure Employee Relations climate is understood within the Business area and local jurisdictions. Work closely with Unite (in the UK), local reps and managers to champion and demonstrate working in partnership and its benefits.
• Facilitate the annual pay and promotions process as per LGIM’s Reward framework.
• Facilitate the annual performance management and development planning process, and ensure all managers are equipped with the appropriate skills to review performance, set objectives and enable development and career progression.
• Proactively drive the maturation of line management capability and use of HR systems, processes, policies and support teams to enable great employee experiences.
• Support all employee engagement activities such as employee surveys and partner business to review and agree key learnings and actions.
• Lead BU HR projects or people change management work as directed by the Senior HRBP e.g. restructures, mergers, acquisitions.
• Assists with the development of reward strategies for the business area, with the support of the Reward Consultant.
• Work with the LGIM L&D team to identify and deliver core L&D requirements for BU to develop organizational capability.
• Support HR policies and frameworks and ensure BU engagement with them, or challenge if policies and frameworks are not fit for purpose/need changing.
• Work pro-actively and collaboratively the HR Business Partners across the wider LGIM HR team on team projects. And work collaboratively with the wider L&G/Group HR teams on centrally led activities as and when required.
• Provide guidance and cost-effective HR solutions to the business aligned to LGIM financial budget and relevant policies.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be hard-working, resilient, a stickler for detail and data accuracy, and enjoy supporting large and multi-disciplinary business functions. You’ll leverage your skills and prior experience to apply HR commercial solutions to a variety of both project and cyclical HR activities, and execute with a high degree of collaboration and excellent stakeholder engagement.

Here’s some of the experience and skills that we’d love to see:

• Understanding of UK employment law and generic HR policies and procedures is essential.
• Understanding of TUPE and experience of the people aspects of mergers and acquisition is preferred.
• Financial Services industry knowledge and experience is preferred, and ideally within Asset Management and supporting Technology, Data and/or Operations teams.
• Proven experience of leading organisational change with a focus on talent management, organisation design, global leadership and operating models.
• Proven experience of designing, leading and executing HR projects using project management techniques.
• Proven experience of influencing senior leadership teams on HR matters and linking this to business strategy.
• Proven experience of providing effective HR partnerships with business and HR COEs with an awareness of the different challenges that are faced.
• Understanding of a range of organisational development techniques to drive engagement, business performance and culture change. 
• Capability to source, gather, analyse and interpret business focused HR data to enable effective decision making.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation across multiple international jurisdictions is required. Experience in partnering global teams across UK, Europe, US and Asia is preferred.

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.