The role

This is an opportunity to work at the point where business strategy and people strategy come together.

You’ll build a deep understanding of the area you support, the outcomes it needs to deliver and the organisational challenges it faces. From there, you’ll work with leaders to translate strategic ambition into practical people priorities and move them into action.

Depending on the role and business area, you could be helping to:

• Shape operating models, organisational structures and accountabilities around the needs of our customers.
• Lead complex organisation design and change, helping leaders and colleagues move successfully from current to future ways of working.
• Identify the capabilities, skills and talent needed as technology, data and AI continue to change how work is delivered.
• Strengthen leadership effectiveness, succession and talent pipelines.
• Coach and constructively challenge senior leaders, bringing an independent and commercially informed perspective.
• Use people data, business insight and evidence to identify risks, uncover opportunities and influence better decisions.
• Build high-performing, customer-focused and inclusive cultures.
• Connect expertise across Talent, Learning, Reward, Culture, Inclusion and wider People teams to deliver joined-up solutions.
• Balance strategic transformation with the immediate people priorities that keep the business performing well.

Our HR Business Partners are not here simply to implement decisions after they have been made. You’ll be expected to get close to the business, contribute early, navigate ambiguity and help leaders make strong, sustainable choices for our customers, colleagues and organisation.

What we’re looking for

We’re interested in meeting experienced HR professionals who can combine strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.

You’ll bring:

• Strong HR Business Partnering, organisation design, transformation or strategic change experience.
• The ability to understand business strategy and translate it into clear organisation, workforce, talent and culture priorities.
• Confidence and credibility when partnering with, coaching and challenging senior leaders.
• Commercial awareness and sound judgement, with the ability to balance different business, colleague and customer considerations.
• Experience of navigating complexity, ambiguity and competing priorities.
• The ability to work across organisational boundaries and bring together different teams and specialists to deliver an outcome.
• A collaborative, curious and solutions-focused approach.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to bring clarity to complex issues.
• An interest in how technology, data and AI are changing organisations, roles and workforce requirements.

Experience in financial services or another complex, regulated environment would be valuable, but it isn’t the only background we’re interested in. If you’ve supported meaningful transformation in a large, customer-focused organisation, we’d like to hear what you could bring.

Why join us?

This is an exciting point at which to join Standard Life. Our ambition creates opportunities to rethink how we organise around customers, how work gets done and how we build the leadership and capabilities needed for the future.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Influence significant business and organisational change.
• Work with senior leaders on complex, high-profile challenges.
• Shape decisions rather than simply implement them.
• Build experience across areas including customer, digital, technology, operations and transformation.
• Join a supportive HR community focused on strong partnerships and meaningful outcomes.
• Contribute to work that can make a real difference to colleagues and millions of customers planning for their financial futures.

We want to hire the whole version of you

We’re committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome, and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

We know that strong candidates don’t always follow the same career path or meet every requirement listed in an advert. If your experience looks different from what we’ve described, but you believe you can bring value to our team and ambition, we’d still love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you perform at your best.

We’ll review applications as they arrive and may close the campaign before the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply early.

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