Head of People

• 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.

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.

• 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.

Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh - Waverley Gate
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

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