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About the Role

The Lead People Relations Partner is responsible for shaping and implementing people strategies and delivering people changes across the business. This role is a key member of the People Strategy leadership team, responsible for organizational change, business partnering, and employee relations for Canada Life LUK across all geographies. The role holder will lead key strategic initiatives, drive enterprise-wide people activities, and ensure the People function meets its objectives while maintaining compliance and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with senior leadership teams to shape and plan a commercially focused people strategy and future-focused organizational model.
Develop people plans and solutions to support business objectives while ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice.
Lead the people aspects of potential M&A activity, operating model evolution, restructuring, and merging of companies.
Identify people capability requirements to deliver the strategic agenda and oversee the effective deployment of talent plans.
Elevate people leadership capabilities by providing advice, support, and coaching to senior leaders on people and talent matters.
Optimize employee experience and engagement levels, supporting local leaders in people management practices and engagement activities.
Lead and coordinate strategic People initiatives and governance activities on behalf of the Chief People Officer.
Provide leadership, direction, and oversight to the People Relations Partner team.
Ensure effective risk management, regulatory compliance, governance, and operational discipline across the People agenda.

Requirements

Significant experience operating at a senior level in a CPO function, ideally within Financial Services.
Solid knowledge of various people disciplines such as Diversity, Compensation, Employee Relations, Performance Management, Talent Management, Staffing, and Organizational Effectiveness.
Strong commercial acumen and ability to advise on fit-for-purpose people solutions.
Experience of talent development and enabling People Strategies in a high-performance environment.
Ability to take a holistic approach to analyze business issues and develop integrated people solutions.
Ability to bring a fresh perspective and insight, challenging the status quo.
Ability to be a change catalyst who can successfully manage change that improves organizational performance.
Strong decision-making capability, comfortable leading in ambiguous, complex, and fast-paced environments.
Fosters collaborative relationships across functions and business.
Demonstrable track record of operating both strategically and operationally.
Ability to influence, partner, and negotiate with management at all levels.
Diplomatic individual with the ability to adapt to, coach, and be effective with diverse leadership styles.
Positive attitude, motivated, action-oriented, and preference for working as part of a team.

Skills

People Strategies
Organizational Change
Business Partnering
Employee Relations
Talent Management
Risk Management
Regulatory Compliance
Governance
Operational Excellence
Diversity
Compensation
Performance Management
Staffing
Organizational Effectiveness
Talent Development
Change Management
Decision Making
Collaboration
Influence
Negotiation
Coaching

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time
Flexible working

Experience Level

Senior level

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

Generous pension
Bonus scheme
Income protection
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Personal and professional development
Training
Opportunities to grow and develop

About the Company

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies.
We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.
Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903.
We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.
Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Equal Opportunity

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us.
We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.
At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures.
Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.
We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.