Talent & Development Partner
- London
- Full-time
- HR
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Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.
Contract Type: Hybrid (Office & Remote)
Salary - Competitive base salary + bonus
Your role at a glance
Would you like to help create and embed a high performing culture across a FTSE 100 business? Could you use innovative thinking to help us engage and retain our talent?
If you have experience successfully leading the delivery of a people development agenda and have designed and delivered interventions that help embed behaviour change, then this is fantastic opportunity to join our Group Functions HR team as a Talent & Development Partner.
In this exciting role, you’ll have the opportunity to develop and deliver people development interventions across the talent, learning and D&I agenda and ensure they are strategically aligned to business needs. You’ll work with the Group Functions HR team and the Group Talent, Development and D&I team to diagnose needs and co-create creative solutions to support our business meeting its ambitions.
This role is yours to make of it what you’d like to, working in an autonomous environment, and using innovation to help create a high-performance culture with the right behaviours across our Group Functions. You’ll be working in a friendly, supportive, and high performing team, that are all passionate about their work and the business. Working with us, gives you lots of personal and career development opportunities, and you’ll be given the support needed from the team to help you thrive.
What you'll be doing
- Working closely with Group Functions business leaders, Business Partners and the Group Talent, Development and D&I team help shape and execute business specific Talent and People Development strategy and plans
- Translate Group Talent & People Development strategy into Group Functions delivered initiatives that support and compliment local and Group business requirements.
- Direct, co-ordinate and where required, co-deliver and facilitate the implementation of Group wide and Group Functions specific learning programmes within the business and in conjunction with the Group Functions HR Business Partners.
- Working with the HR Business Partner team support a focus on the development of Group functions leaders with specific attention supporting teams to be high performing and effective teams.
- Provide talent, development and D&I advice and guidance to formulate and deliver strategic policies, initiatives and programmes across Group Functions, such as driving succession & the talent agenda.
- Providing overall talent, development and D&I direction and guidance to the HRDs and HRBPs in Group Functions, developing and executing the business specific requirements with senior business leaders and working with Group Teams to develop fit for purpose interventions aligned to the overall L&G strategy.
- Working with the Group Functions HR Business Partners, mobilise and proactively drive and execute the Strategic Workforce Planning capability build requirements for all functional areas within Group Functions for all identified talent, learning and development needs in the short, medium and longer term.
- Where gaps have been identified, deliver learning and training interventions to Group Functions from leadership development to more generic colleague competency and skills-based training with the ability to flex style and approach to suit the different audiences. Take ownership of the end-to-end process from scoping the learning need, creation of the material and delivery of the appropriate intervention.
What we're looking for
To be successful in this role you’ll need a hands-on approach, with the desire to get involved in design. You’ll be working with a variety of senior stakeholders, so your communication skills, confidence, and ability to influence are key, as well your ability to adapt as you work across different business areas. This is role that offers an autonomous working environment, meaning that you’ll benefit from being a pro-active, self-starter.
Here’s some of the experience that we’d love to see:
- Evidence of supporting or leading the delivery of a people development agenda across a business with effective means to measure behaviour change and business benefits of people development activity.
- Evidence of user-led experience design work and varied design methods that suit user needs to embed and sustains behaviour change.
- Ability to influence, consult and manage key stakeholders and diverse audiences to co-create and shape a compelling people development agenda and interventions that work across business areas, roles and levels and deliver business impact and growth.
- Understanding of talent, learning, leadership and organisational development methodologies and tools.
- Experience delivering training, both virtually and in person.
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.
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