Retail Future Talent Development Consultant (12 month FTC)

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses. Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.

Recruiter:

Laura Spencer-Jones - [email protected]

Internal Closing Date:

25.09.24 Job Description We’re recruiting for a?Retail Future Talent Development Consultant

to join us. We’re offering a

competitive base salary. The Retail Future Talent Development Consultant will support the Retail People Development Team in the delivery of the Retail Future Talent strategy including apprenticeship upskilling, work experience, internships and graduates, People Development including leadership delivery ensuring Retail has the critical talent required to achieve its strategic ambitions. Maximising opportunities to attract, retain, and develop diverse and innovative talent whilst prioritising commerciality and the return on investment of development solutions provided by the Retail People Development team.

What you will be doing:

Supporting the delivery of Retail’s approach to future talent, including internal and external apprenticeships, placements, work experience, graduate programmes, and People Development Contributing to the delivery of a strategic, innovative, and effective Retail People Development strategy that identifies and implements key solutions that develop the critical talent required today and in the future Effectively managing the administrative activities within the Retail People Development Team to ensure efficiencies and effectiveness of team delivery. Managing bookings, attendance and evaluation data and be able to present and report on these on a regular basis Providing key stakeholders with relevant updates, key successes, learnings, and additional suitable solutions. Remaining focused on the value provided from the solutions for Retail, the colleagues and future talent requirements As a future talent subject expert, providing advice, guidance, and expertise to ensure the effective application of future talent solutions across Retail Gathering insight and feedback to identify improvements that can be made to future talent solutions to ensure continuous improvement remains a priority and the experience for both the colleague and business remains positive Supporting the identification and design of solutions that give sufficient emphasis to the need for customers to understand that fair treatment is central to Retail’s culture

Qualifications Who we're looking for:

CIPD – Learning and Development (Diploma) - desirable Proven ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, internally and at external meetings with suppliers, awarding bodies and professional entities Proven ability to project plan and to be able to react flexibly when priorities change, with the ability to innovate and be an agent of change Stakeholder management skills Ability to influence others both internally and externally Ability to engage with stakeholders including senior leaders Proven ability to evaluate individual and group understanding and provide individually tailored solutions based on training needs analysis, effectively balancing customer and business requirements and outcomes. Proven ability to build and maintain relationships and networks, and collaborate externally and internally Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes Generous pension contribution Life assurance Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday Competitive family leave Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named

Britain’s Most Admired Company

in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.