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:

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