Hargreaves Lansdown
People Partner- Digital
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About the role
As People Partner for Digital, you will work with the Head of People for Digital to create and deliver strategic people plans that enable business goals, support digital transformation and foster a high-performing, customer-focused culture. You will shape the people agenda alongside your Head of People, embedding initiatives and bringing pace, empathy and practical judgement to complex business challenges.
You will translate business strategy into clear people plans and actions encompassing workforce planning, organisational design, talent, culture and capability. You will bring evidence-led insight to help leaders make talent decisions, build future capability and create the conditions for successful delivery in a fast-moving digital environment.
As a rounded generalist, you will deliver change projects, manage Employee Relations activity and support recruitment and talent priorities with energy, pace and a strong bias for action.
What you will be doing:
- Acting as a trusted HR advisor to your Digital Leadership Team(s), working with the Head of People to translate business objectives into people initiatives that drive a high-performance culture and long-term success.
- Represent the priorities of the Digital business within the People team, ensuring they inform people planning and strategy.
- Support organisational design, restructures and role architecture, working with the Head of People and Head of ER to ensure compliance with policy and employment law.
- Diagnose organisational challenges and design practical, people-centric solutions that improve performance, capability and colleague experience.
- Lead local ER matters, including performance and grievances, ensuring compliance with UK employment legislation and company policy.
- Use analytics to identify trends, risks and opportunities, turning insight into clear, actionable recommendations that help leaders make better people and business decisions.
- Support talent management initiatives including performance management, talent reviews, succession planning and development planning.
- Coach leaders on effective performance management, employee engagement and conflict resolution.
- Support change initiatives, including digital transformation, cultural change, organisational redesign and new ways of working, using agile approaches to test, learn and adapt solutions quickly.
- Work closely with other People Partners, Advisors and the Head of ER to ensure consistency and alignment across the organisation.
- Partner with Talent, Reward, People Operations and Learning & Development to prioritise work, coordinate People team support and deliver high-impact solutions.
- Support leaders in building future capability, including identifying critical skills, workforce requirements and talent strategies for evolving digital functions.
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About you:
- Previous Senior HR Advisor or HRBP experience, ideally supporting Digital, Technology, Product or Transformation functions.
- Proven ability to influence at senior leadership level.
- Strong change, culture and ER experience, supporting leaders through transformation with pace, clarity and trust.
- Capability across organisational design, talent, performance and workforce planning, with experience raising standards in talent quality, succession and leadership capability.
- Experience supporting transformation programmes across culture, organisational design, ways of working and performance improvement.
- Comfortable challenging leaders to raise standards in talent, performance and culture, while providing practical, commercially grounded HR support.
- Experience using data and insight to shape people recommendations and decisions.
- Financial services / FCA-regulated environment is preferred.
- People technology exposure (e.g. Workday).
- Experience partnering with Digital, Technology or Product teams, including supporting digital transformation, technology change or agile delivery environments is highly desirable.
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Why us?
Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
- Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Health screening programme
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
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