Senior HR Business Partner

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

Context for the role:

To support the CHRO and the HRD in the delivery of the Group’s HR agenda and to support the design and delivery of assigned client groups’ people plans, focussing on 4 core pillars of:

• Organisation Design and People Change

• Culture & Engagement

• Talent & Capability

• Performance and Reward

The Role: As a Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll work directly with senior leaders, acting as the go-to expert and trusted advisor on a wide range of people issues. You’ll be a key champion for the people agenda, collaborating across the HR function to deliver solutions that drive success. You'll also empower leadership teams, building their confidence and capability through your guidance, coaching, and strategic insight.

As a trusted partner you will build effective relationships with your stakeholders, and a deep understanding of the people implications and requirements impacting the business strategy, ensuring that both short and longer term requirements are addressed. You will have a “seat at the leadership table”, ensure effective delivery of a complex and varied agenda, whilst helping to build an inclusive and progressive culture across your business areas/client groups.

To be successful in this role, you will have a very strong track record in successfully partnering, coaching and influencing senior leaders within your business areas/client groups. You will have the ability to work autonomously and have deep experience across a broad range of HR disciplines, including organisational design, transformation, culture development, talent and succession management, senior talent acquisition, engagement, and reward. You will be highly commercial, driven to make a difference and willing to take a proactive, hands-on approach to getting things done, including driving change and improvement in complex environments.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Build a deep understanding of the business areas/client groups strategy, business goals and priorities.

• Partner closely with Leadership teams to develop and implement strategic people and culture initiatives (People Strategy) that support delivery of the business strategy.

• Coach, support and act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on all people-related matters.

• Lead the delivery of HR projects/change & transformation initiatives to support delivery of the People Strategy.

• Develop and provide HR insights and solutions in the delivery of the business strategy and People Strategy, drawing on people data and analytics.

• Lead the recruitment of senior leadership, working in partnership with the Resourcing team.

• Proactively use key people metrics (including absence, attrition, hiring, disciplinary, grievances, etc.) to provide insight and solutions to business areas/client groups.

• Embed talent management across business areas/client groups, support leaders to attract, develop and retain senior talent and build effective succession pipelines, working with the Talent & OE function to input to wider business Talent initiatives.

• Work with leadership teams to embed a high-performance culture, develop and deliver engagement, and DEI and Wellness approaches, that deliver tangible improvement to the employee experience across business areas/client groups.

• Lead the implementation of key cyclical HR processes within business areas/client groups, including performance management, pay reviews, Group-wide talent reviews.

• Facilitate the people aspects of mergers, acquisitions, disposals, etc.

• Coordinate and work with country HR teams to deliver business outcomes.

• Provide innovative, informed and pragmatic solutions to a variety of complex HR issues taking full account of internal policies, HR best practice, legislative practice, and equality and regulatory requirements.

• Work closely with the HR Centres of Expertise (CoE) to ensure they understand the requirements of the business areas/client groups, at all levels.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the Group HR Function, collaborating closely with HR CoE and HR Services.

• Take personal accountability to maintain and enhance effective controls to support the improvement of the overall HR control environment, customer/client outcomes and to reduce operational risk.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience – you are/have:

• A proven track record in HR Business Partnering, preferably including in financial or professional services.

• A strategic and commercial mindset - able to understand the M&G businesses, thinks strategically and commercially.

• Deep HR technical knowledge – across a broad range of HR technical domains, including leadership development, senior talent management, organisation design, change management, employee relations, senior talent acquisition, diversity & inclusion, etc.

• Organisational sense – deals comfortably with organisational politics, can manage through organisational complexity to get things done in the right way.

• Collaborative - willing to work effectively with others across complex, matrixed organisations and geographies. Able to build partnerships with others to deliver outcomes.

• Strong problem solving skills – with strong analytical skills and an ability to interpret data to identify key trends, emerging risks, etc.

• Able to manage complexity and ambiguity – operates effectively, even when the way forward is not clear

• Curious – able to spot opportunities and act to implement change quickly.

• Well-developed listening and communication skills – presents information in a confident and clear way which meets the needs of the audience.

• Drives results – moves to action and delivers required outcomes.

• Resilient – persistent and resilient in the face of challenge. Rebounds easily from set-backs.

• Prepared to travel – and work in relevant locations to provide facetime to your business areas/client groups.

• Consulting skills - including planning and project/workstream management skills.

• Data literate – is comfortable finding relevant data sources to inform diagnostics and decision making.

• Relationship Building, stakeholder management and networking skills

• Able to work autonomously

• Invested in your self-development

• Coaching and facilitation skills

Recruiter : Martyn Jack

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).

• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.

• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.

• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.

• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.

M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com