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-centred ambitions.  

We’re recruiting for a Learning & Development Team Leader to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. You will be helping to fulfil the vision of becoming the long term savings partner of choice for all of our customers and clients. Managing, developing, inspiring and motivating a team of Learning and Development Consultants to provide innovative and creative knowledge, skills and core process/solutions that meet business needs.  

What you'll be doing:

• Providing inspirational leadership to your team, ensuring that your colleagues have the knowledge, skills, experience and confidence to deliver high impact learning and development initiatives
• Managing 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
• Working collaboratively with the wider Future Capabilities Team to ensure Operational readiness initiatives are planned effectively, measurable, and fit for purpose. Ensuring they are delivered in a timely, cost effective and efficient way
• Proactively managing your team and Learning & Development peers, to make sure there’s fairness and all your team have the opportunity to develop and business regulatory requirements are met
• Overseeing the creation of innovative, and the improvement of existing, learning and development solutions. Evaluating current solutions to ensure they are up to date and compliant
• Being the face of Learning & Development by holding consultancies with Senior Managers so we can identify learning and development solutions to support and sustain ongoing success as well as being able to communicate best practice with your peers  
• Researching , planning , designing and creating  engaging, innovative and informing learning and development solutions to ensure competency is achieved across Retail Workplace utilizing the Learning and Development Consultants to support as needed

Who we're looking for:

• 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

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.