Learning & Development Team Leader

Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centered ambitions. 

You’ll be helping to fulfil the vision of becoming the long term savings partner of choice for all of our customers and clients by managing, developing, inspiring and motivating a team of Learning and Development Consultants to provide innovative and creative knowledge, skills and core process learning and development solutions that meet business needs, maximise the potential of our people and enables Workplace Savings to achieve its strategic business objectives and key performance goals.

What you will be doing:

• Provide inspirational leadership to your team, ensuring that your colleagues have the knowledge, skills, experience and confidence to deliver high impact learning and development initiatives.
• Provide personal leadership, supervision, support, coaching and motivation to colleagues; inspire your colleagues to achieve their potential.
• Work collaboratively with the wider Future Capabilities Team to ensure Operational readiness initiatives are planned effectively, measurable, fit for purpose, support the strategy, and are delivered in a timely, cost effective and efficient way. Influence and obtain agreement to proceed with the proposed delivery plans from the appropriate stakeholders, and in accordance with the agreed Retail approach
• Proactively manage your team and Learning & Development peers including resources, to make sure there’s fairness and all your team have the opportunity to develop and business regulatory requirements are met ensuring an outstanding colleague experience is provided, raising risks or issues accordingly.
• Oversee the creation of innovative, and the improvement of existing, learning and development solutions. Evaluate current solutions to ensure they are up to date and compliant. Work with Qualification Programme Manager to plan the delivery of core qualifications and assess internal candidates in line with our qualification framework.
• Manage own and teams Continual Professional Development activities to maintain knowledge to deliver innovative Learning & Development initiatives required to renew and sustain competency and external validation requirements. Always act as a role model making sure you put your colleagues, customers and clients at the heart of everything
• Be the face of Learning & Development by holding consultancies with Senior Managers so we can identify learning & development solutions to support & sustain their ongoing success.  Communicate in an effective way and proactively manage your stakeholders and Learning & Development Team peers, sharing best practice whilst being open to their guidance and learnings so as a team we perform highly
• Research , plan , design and create  engaging, innovative and informing learning & development solutions to ensure competency is achieved across Retail Workplace utilizing the Learning & Development Consultants to support as needed
• Manage your team in line with Legal & General’s policies and procedures, including the Unite Partnership Agreement, so that the team’s objectives are consistently achieved

• Learning & Development in a Financial Services environment experience essential including coaching
• Management Development experience 
• Expert knowledge of pensions and investments products, processes legislation and the regulatory framework
• Able to coach in both 1:1 and group situations
• Microsoft Office :Expert  knowledge of PowerPoint, good knowledge of Word and Excel, administration level of My Performance on behalf of business areas

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, at least 25 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.