Graduate – HR Programme

Over the course of two years, you will gain experience in four different rotations designed to provide practical experience across HR specialisms like Employee Relations/Policy, Talent & Capability, Reward, and HR Business Partnering. You will be expected to travel to our other offices throughout the course of the programme.

During the programme you can expect to develop your skills by:

• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement to HR processes, ways of working, and technology
• Supporting the development of talent by contributing to learning initiatives and assisting in the delivery of programmes that build future capability across the organisation
• Delivering reward activities by helping with pay, benefits, and recognition processes, contributing to benchmarking work, and ensuring reward initiatives are administered accurately and consistently across the organisation.
• Managing HR-related change, including process mapping and stakeholder engagement
• Contributing to HR projects by supporting research, coordination, and delivery activities, helping to implement improvements, tracking progress, and ensuring project outcomes align with wider HR and organisational priorities
• Responding directly to employee and line manager HR queries, ensuring an exceptional employee experience throughout the employee life cycle
• Supporting a varied Employee Relations caseload including disciplinaries, grievances, absence, sickness, performance management, and occupational health
• Producing HR Management Information (MI) and insights
• Assisting with annual HR processes like pay and performance reviews
• Having the opportunity to network with new colleagues and work collaboratively across the organisation

What we're looking for

We are looking for people with an inquisitive mind and a desire to learn. We’re not expecting prior industry experience, but we’ll want to see that you have the tools to develop quickly.

These Include

• 2.1 Degree in any subject – we are open to all subject backgrounds
• A genuine passion and interest in HR and pursuing a career within the field
• The ability to build effective working relationships with key stakeholders by communicating clearly, managing expectations, and supporting collaborative decision-making
• Analytical skills, with a high level of numeracy and a good understanding of basic data analysis approaches
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Flexible and a team-player
• Curiosity and an eagerness to learn
• Competent IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Additional Information

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance, and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us. At L&G, we believe it’s possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time, and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 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.