WORKFORCE PLANNING & INSIGHTS MANAGER

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 Affairs – 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.  

This is an exciting role at the heart of our L&G people strategy. Working with HR, our businesses, Finance and other stakeholders to implement people data, workforce planning and insights strategies, working to shape the future of Legal & General’s workforce. You will be developing and delivering people reporting, dashboards and insights to inform business decisions, improve employee experiences and drive investment and innovation.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading on development and delivery of reporting, dashboards, storyboards and deep dive analysis to inform the business, ensuring we are measuring the right things to drive business growth and performance.
• Providing business-wide data driven people insight, including conclusions and recommendations, to inform strategy and action.
• Supporting the delivery of strategic workforce planning, modelling and forecasting, aligning business plans with capability needs, identifying workforce gaps and predicting future impacts. Help to build plans to mitigate risk to future growth. 
• Driving insights capability development, developing advanced and predictive analytics capability and building insights capability in HR. 
• Working with HR Systems and Operations to develop and implement people data strategy, and ensure appropriate data governance, compliance and integrity controls are in place. 
• Leading the Workforce Planning & Insights team.

Who we're looking for:

You will have:

• First-hand knowledge and practical application in designing and implementing complex data structures, strong logic and analytical skills, including data analysis and problem solving.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and conducting complex quantitative and qualitative analyses that identify trends in workforce behaviours.
• Expert knowledge and practical application of data analytics, visualisation and reporting using various tools. Experience in PowerBI and Alteryx is desirable
• First-hand knowledge and application of predictive modelling and statistical methods (such as R or Python) is desirable.
• Broad and deep technical understanding of different analytics, tools and metrics and experience in communicating them to a wide audience.
• The ability to adapt communication styles to suit the audience and messaging, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to work with multiple data sources and combining relevant information to generate insights from analyses; creating effective presentations.
• The ability to quickly grasp complex business problems, develop a logical/rational framework for investigating the problems.

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 organisation, 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’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive 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. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.