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As a Strategic People Partner, you will partner with Senior Leaders and their leadership team in RBB or T&D, aligning people strategy with business objectives. You will drive strategic initiatives across talent management, organisational design, culture, transformation and leadership development, ensuring a high performing, engaged and agile workforce.
The difference you’ll make:
You will work closely with your stakeholders to build a deep understanding of the business goals and priorities and be the interface between the business and People & Culture to ensure our people strategies support these goals. Your core accountabilities would include:
Commerciality: Develop a deep understanding of the key strategic business goals and challenges, including the commercial and people levers that influence them
Stakeholder Skills: Coach and influence Senior Leaders to develop leadership capability, relationships among teams as well as deliver effective performance feedback aligned to high performance culture
Culture Coach: Coach and influence leaders to role model and embed the TEAMS behaviours and leadership expectations
Strategic Workforce Planning: Collaborate with senior leadership to construct, develop and implement strategic workforce planning initiatives that are aligned with the SWP strategy and overarching HR strategic blueprint including strategies to ensure we attract, develop and retain talent with a clear focus on succession planning
Change & Transformation – Provide strategic advice and counsel to the business to identify, shape and embed change and transformation activity aligned to SWP
Cross Collaboration: Work closely with HR CoEs (Talent, Culture & Reward) and the Solutions pool to prioritise and implement strategies across the business that align with workforce planning and the Strategic Blueprint including implementing Global initiatives
External Awareness: Horizon scan, review and benchmark internal and external environments to identify new opportunities for HR and the business.
Data Driven: Analyse workforce trends using HR MI / data to forecast future people related requirements to support senior leaders in workforce planning and succession management, and to ensure successful people outcomes are tracked and measured
Employee Engagement: Leverage Peakon outputs to identify key actions and priorities to positively influence the ongoing improvement of cultural shifts such as engagement, DEI and wellbeing through people priorities, leveraging the thought leadership of the Culture AOE, and identifying associated solutions as required
Business Advocate: Act as the voice of the customer across HR, building knowledge and understanding of business priorities and drivers, to ensure products and services are fit for purpose
What you’ll bring:
Solid Business Partnering experience, with a strong level of technical HR depth
Sound understanding of the San UK Strategic Blueprint
Proven ability to influence Senior Leaders and manage complex stakeholder environments
Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions
Excellent communication, coaching and relationship building skills
Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptability, with the ability to easily adjust or change working style.
Customer obsessed, with a passion for solving problems to help make our customers better happen
It would also be nice for you to have:
Experience of working with a retail or technology business
Experience of strategic workforce planning, and implementing agile ways of working
What else you need to know:
This role is based in Milton Keynes
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.
We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.
Inclusion
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.
How we’ll reward you.
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.
Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
£6,000 car allowance per year (remove for SLB roles).
Company funded individual private medical insurance.
Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services
What to do next:
If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.
If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk.