Strategic People Partner

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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 youll 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 youll 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 its important you consider your travelling distance time and cost from your home to the office location.

Were happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

Inclusion

At Santander were 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 well reward you.

As well as a competitive salary youll 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 dont contribute yourself. Well 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.

• 6000 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 Santanders success by saving or investing inour shareplans.

• 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 youre interested in then please apply.

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