HR Director

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 also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The HR Director works across the Life business to co-create and deliver a people strategy and plan for this area of the business which enables effective delivery of the business agenda through people. Key executive stakeholders are the CEO M&G Life and the PAC Board.

The HR Director works with those senior leadership teams to define the people strategy and plan required by those areas, to ensure the models and ways of working align effectively so the organisation can deliver the required outcomes for customers and works with HRLT peers to ensure the wider HR operating model is set up to enable delivery of the people plan.

The role is accountable for ensuring that the HR team enables delivery of the transformation agenda through people and capability as well as overseeing day-to-day delivery of HR services.

The role is a member of the M&G plc HR Leadership Team (HRLT) and will work with HRLT peers as part of a collective effort in transforming the HR model and providing leadership to the HR function.

• Accountable for the strategy and performance of a significant business area, or a significant area of expertise.
• Accountable for ensuring alignment to M&G plc's strategic direction, set by the CEO and Executive Leaders.
• Sets direction to reconcile competing drivers (i.e. cost and quality, control and outsourcing etc.).
• Addresses complex problems with significant impacts or where reputation or relationships are at risk.
• Identifies potential for innovation by understanding current gaps in provision, industry trends and anticipating future customer/client needs.
• Draws on expert knowledge or analysis to generate new solutions, systems or products.
• Initiates and drives radical change.
• Allocates resources optimally across business area in line with strategy, taking a long term view; creates or disbands teams to address market changes.

• Set the strategy and direction for their HR team, driving capability to meet the needs of the business strategy, improving the talent bench strength and minimising people related risks within the business.
• Develop and implement people strategies, plans and processes that ensure the business can make optimum use of its people for today’s business agenda and transformation.
• Review of the HR operating model, working with HRLT peers to transform the function and upgrade capability.
• Influence, coach and develop executive leaders and leadership teams to lead more effectively and take accountability for their behaviours and impact.
• Accountable for acting as the HR Director contact point for the Life business including PAC, keeping the Boards briefed on relevant matters and ensuring an effective two-way flow of information between the subsidiary Boards (and all relevant subsidiary entities) and the Chief People Officer.
• Build capability across the function and promote a culture of curiosity, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Anticipate major market changes and their consequences for the focus and work of the function, adjusting priorities and re-aligning work where necessary.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues and take personal accountability to maintain and enhance controls you are responsible for to support improvement of the overall control environment, customer outcomes and a reduction in M&G plc’s operational risk.
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