Job Description
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Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh - Waverley Gate
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
To help us manage applications effectively, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we have received a high number of applications or identified enough suitable candidates for the next stage of the process. We encourage you to apply as early as you can.
Join Royal London’s People Function in a senior leadership role partnering senior leaders across Brand & Marketing and Adviser & Customer. You will bring the credibility, judgement and influence to operate confidently with an executive population, constructively challenging GEC and GEC-1 leaders and enabling strong decision-making.
Translating business strategy into a focused people plan will be central to the role. You will use commercial judgement to identify and prioritise the people and organisational actions that will have the greatest impact on performance, growth and customer outcomes.
You will also shape leadership capability, team effectiveness, organisation design, culture and workforce planning, creating the conditions for leaders and teams to perform at their best.
About the role
- Act as a trusted strategic adviser to the senior leadership teams, bringing insight, judgement and constructive challenge to executive discussions and decisions.
- Translate business strategy and commercial priorities into a clear, prioritised people and organisation plan, balancing immediate priorities with longer-term capability needs.
- Lead the development of the organisation design, operating model, governance, culture, capabilities, workforce and talent pipelines required to deliver the strategy.
- Advise on leadership and team effectiveness, using coaching, facilitation and targeted interventions to strengthen collective performance, accountability and decision-making.
- Lead complex people workstreams across business-as-usual activity, transformation and change, building effective matrix teams across the People Function.
- Ensure effective delivery of cyclical people activity, including performance, reward, talent and succession planning, colleague engagement and people planning.
About you
- Extensive experience as a senior HR Business Partner, Head of People or equivalent in a complex commercial organisation, with a strong record of influencing executive leaders.
- Executive presence and gravitas, with the confidence, judgement and resilience to challenge GEC and GEC-1 stakeholders, navigate ambiguity and influence strong decisions.
- Strong commercial acumen, with evidence of translating business strategy into a focused people plan and prioritised organisational and workforce actions.
- Deep expertise in leadership and team effectiveness, including executive coaching, team development, facilitation and interventions that improve collective performance.
- Strong practical experience of organisation design and effectiveness, including operating models, role clarity, governance, capability building and ways of working.
- Experience leading the people aspects of complex change and transformation, supported by sound employee relations and legislative knowledge.
If you feel you’d be a great fit for Royal London but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. If you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply.
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About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate and Achieve. We offer a competitive benefits package including 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer pension matching and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives bring a range of skills which are recognised and respected.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
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Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.