Lead Relations Partner

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Description:

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Lead People Relations Partner

Job Purpose:

The opportunity:

The role holder is responsible for shaping and implementing people strategies and delivery of people changes across our business. The role holder is a key member of the People Strategy leadership team and responsible for the delivery of organisational change, business partnering activity and employee relations for Canada Life LUK across all geographies. The role holder undertake a will lead role within the People Parterning team, providing strategic direction, governance and oversight to ensure consistent execution of people priorities, effective risk management and delivery of business outcomes.

Acting as a trusted delegate for the Chief People Officer when required, the role holder will lead key strategic initiatives, drive enterprise-wide people activities and ensure the People function delivers against its objectives while maintaining compliance, operational excellence and organisational effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with senior leadership teams and their respective teams to shape and plan a commercially focused people strategy and future focused organisational model that fulfils both the needs of Finance or COO and the broader CLUK organisation.
• Develop people plans and solutions to support the achievement of the overall business objectives whilst ensuring compliance with relevant local legislation and best practice.
• Enable transformation and change across the organisation inclusive of but not limited to . leading Lead the people aspects of potential M&A activity acquisitions, operating model evolution and , restructuring and merging of companies.
• Identify the people capability requirements to deliver the strategic agenda, oversee the effective deployment of talent plans & solutions, working across the Group, to ensure the organisation has the necessary talent and capabilities to meet business needs now and into the future.
• Elevate people leadership capabilities by providing advice, support and coaching to senior leadership level level people leaders on all people and talent matters.
• Optimise the employee experience & engagement levels supporting local leaders to own people management practices & local engagement activities in addition to the organisation wide initiatives to continue our journey on building a great place to work.
• Lead and coordinate strategic People initiatives and governance activities on behalf of the Chief People Officer, ensuring the successful delivery of key organisational priorities.
• Provide leadership, direction and oversight to the People Relations Partner team, driving high-quality execution of people plans, organisational change, employee relations and business partnering activities.
• Ensure effective risk management, regulatory compliance, governance and operational discipline across the People agenda, maintaining a strong focus on delivering business outcomes, protecting the organisation and enabling sustainable performance.

Experience:

What you’ll bring to the role:

Knowledge and Experience

• Have significant experience operating at a senior level in an CPO function ideally within in Financial Services with the skills, experience and confidence to operate at strategic level, guiding, influencing and collaborating with executive team
• Have solid knowledge of various people disciplines such…