People Strategy Planner

Business Unit:  Human Resources and Communications Salary Range: £36,800 - £55,200 DOE per annum + red hot benefits  Location:  UK Hybrid, whilst aspects of this role can be carried out virtually, some travel throughout the UK should be expected. Live for the weekday. Live a life more Virgin. Our team We keep the business running, whilst defining the future. We set the people strategy, deliver programmes of change, and manage our people system, insight and data. We’re a small, but perfectly formed team who are passionate about improving how it feels to work at Virgin Money. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative People Strategy Planner to join the People Strategy, Systems, and Insight team. As a People Strategy Planner, you will play a key role in driving our People Strategy forward. You’ll clearly communicate our plans to a wide range of internal stakeholders, measure our performance and influence senior leader decision making. You’ll work with our internal teams to shape the go-forward plans, manage competing priorities, and ensure we’re meeting deadlines along the way. This person will hold senior stakeholders to account and run our governance forums. What you'll be doing  Strategic Portfolio Management: assess and track performance, manage dependencies/interdependencies and influence decision making. Ensure our database of strategic projects is up to date, providing a clear overview of project progress. Collaborate with all HR & Comms teams to maintain accurate and timely information. Governance and Coordination: Manage governance arrangements for people strategy, including coordinating updates for our monthly governance forum, taking minutes, and ensuring actions are completed. Stakeholder Engagement and Influence: evaluate demand requests for HR support and engage with relevant stakeholders to facilitate decision making. Communication and Presentation: Create clear short and longer term delivery roadmaps and present the key messages to relevant teams, with a clear view of outcomes. Performance Tracking: Support our FTE and cost management by tracking and reporting activity across the business, working closely with HR Business Partners to understand movements.   Best Practice: Distil industry best practice relating to our people priorities and present opportunities for VMUK to consider. Monitor and update performance indicators to assess the effectiveness of the people agenda. Planning and Reporting: Work on the HR & Comms annual and quarterly planning cycles, aligned to budget, investment, and project initiatives. Support VM’s annual Strategy Planning process from an HR&Comms perspective. Support the Head of People Strategy, Systems and Insight with ad hoc updates and reporting to senior leaders. We need you to have Understanding of HR and people practices.  Experience managing complex portfolio of work during periods of change, ideally experience of integration. Highly organised and proven record of managing a large complex agenda. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and hold them to account. Outcome focused, with the ability to measure progress and evaluate the impact of projects. Ability to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels. Proven ability to prioritise, and work in an environment where the plan changes dynamically.   Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong presentation skills. Excellent attention to detail. Strong team player with the ability to build and maintain relationships. Appreciates sensitivities and operates with appropriate discretion. Strong intellect and general management skills. Ability to interpret workforce metrics and insights. It's a bonus if you have but not essential Knowledge of financial services. External insight and networks relevant for successful delivery of the role. Red Hot Rewards Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more. Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​.  20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.  Market-leading pension. Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance. Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.  And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you. Say hello to Virgin Money We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.  Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.   As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.  Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks