HR Business Partner

To provide people support to the business as follows:

• Act as part of the leadership team for aligned business area
• Advise, coach and educate business leaders using your expertise
• Be a trusted partner
• Have a deep understanding of your aligned business area from a customer and commercial perspective
• Use foresight and experience to anticipate action needed
• Offer support and challenge to your aligned business area to get to the right outcomes.

The role will act as a high-level business partner to the senior management team. It will be responsible for taking the lead in the execution and embedding of various people initiatives.

This role will be key in driving high people performance and continuous development across the group. Working as part of the HR management team, this role will be integral to inputting into the design and development of people strategies at a group level to ensure all business brands achieve the business outcomes they require.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for decisions which shape, recommend and agree the Function’s People Strategy, process and policy.
• Support the operating model design for the functions and ensure alignment to organisational design principles.
• Aid the decision making of senior management on resource management, appointments, compensation, people costs, employee relations retention, engagement, reward & recognition and leadership.
• Consider risk and reward when making business decisions, while ensuring that effective and proportionate risk management processes and controls are in place at all times in compliance with relevant risk methodology.
• To work with the business and functional areas to analyse learning needs. To develop, deliver and execute training and learning interventions as required.
• Provide counsel and tools to leaders with a focus on driving the organisation’s leadership, securing succession and developing potential, employee engagement and culture.
• Participates as an active member of the aligned function(s) senior leadership team, supporting people strategies and plans and working with them to deliver business priorities through their people.
• Support the development and delivery of people strategy, including talent development, organisational effectiveness, organisational design and managing and implementing change.
• Actively promote and contribute towards the equality, diversity and inclusion strategy for the group, ensure the EDI is understood and embedded in our culture.
• Ensure the function has the capability required to deliver business priorities today and for the future, attracting a talented, diverse future workforce.
• Scanning the external horizon and working with Aviva to identify new ideas/opportunities in support of business priorities/growth, aligned with the people strategy.
• To lead specific people change and HR projects in the business and within the functions as required.
• To drive forward effective internal communications for our people, sharing information and educating as required.
• Working closely with the wider People team, to jointly achieve departmental and strategic people objectives.

Critical behaviours required

Personal profile

Qualifications required 

Essential

• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Desirable

• Full CIPD Level 7 or equivalent
• Psychometric testing qualification
• Formal management qualification

Experience required 

Essential

• Experience of facilitating & empowering Leaders.
• Experience of supporting a multi-site organisation.
• Experience in managing HR projects – leading initiatives through other departments within the organisation.
• Experience of supporting culture change.
• Experience of talent development, organisational development & delivery.
• Experience in organisational design.
• Experience in analysing training needs, designing and delivering training / learning interventions.

Our Expectations

Our Approach to Risk Management

• You will require an awareness of operational and regulatory risk, which may impact on SBG. You will be responsible for reporting to their line manager any risk which may impact on the business.

Three Lines of Defence Risk Management Model

• You will be required to deliver your role competently and comply with the relevant standards and procedures, ensuring that SBG deliver a service where suitable advice is given to the end consumer, which is adequately recorded and ultimately promotes good customer outcomes. This can either be through direct influence or in a support services capacity.

The Consumer Duty Principle

• You will be required to highlight to your line manager procedures and processes that may impact on SBG’s ability to deliver good outcomes for retail customers and/or may lead to foreseeable harm. Where possible and relevant to your department, put forward suggestions that could positively impact the outcomes achieved by retail customers.

Information Security

• You will need to be aware of all information security principles, policies and procedures and ensure these are followed on a day-to-day basis. You will be required to remain vigilant at all times and report any security concerns, suspicions and/or breaches in a timely manner.