Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We’re on a mission to change the way people develop at L&G to deliver Inclusive Capitalism.  

We work with our people to develop Agile, Authentic, Ambitious Leaders. Delivering Inclusive Capitalism is at the heart of everything we do and we’re on an adventure that will shape our people development to reflect this, too. The Development Experience Consultant role has a key part to play in delivering talent, learning and development activity to support our goals.

Our People Development Consultant consults with the business and our people to uncover needs and solve real problems by creating incredible learning and development experiences. The experiences that they design help people to perform in their roles, connect with insights and develop in their careers. The person in this role uses their creativity as a driving force to design, deliver and maintain unforgettable, effortless, effective, measurable experiences that put our people and customers at the heart of the design process. This role is about supporting our people today and looking around corners to anticipate future needs in an ambitious, agile and authentic way. The role holder creates blended experiences that drive business outcomes and that build future-ready capability across L&G at a global level. The person in this role is super organised, passionate about delivering a great experience and is hungry to learn.

What we are looking for:

• Implement changes to Performance Management
• Run experiments to test new approaches in the team
• Support content development and deployment of leadership development programmes including Thriving, Senior Leaders Events, People Management Fundamentals, Apprenticeships, Graduate schemes and Driving Performance
• Provide consultancy and guidance on suppliers for early careers professional qualifications activity and wider scheme activity
• Provide insight and consultancy into early careers development activity (e.g. Graduate & Apprenticeship learning journey)
• Support insights work by running focus groups, interviews and surveys
• Support content curation and distribution by writing communications and managing content on learning platforms like Hive & The Hub
• Be part of core working group to develop Critical Capabilities, including Digital and Data
• To support the inclusion agenda by using creativity as a driving force to support design and the execution of the inclusion agenda when required

Qualifications

• Experience within a people development role
• Evidence of consulting skills to support creative problem solving
• Evidence of co-ordinating and project-managing complex development programmes
• Experience of managing senior stakeholders
• Evidence of leading insights work
• Experience of working with creative problem-solving frameworks like 5Di
• Experience of work outside the learning industry
• A passion for your own development.
• Consulting to deliver impact and growth
• Managing stakeholders with impact and influence
• Project-managing learning programmes from concept to delivery
• Navigating complex organisations
• Experience of working with a diverse audience to deliver solutions that work across regions, roles and levels.
• Developing strong relationships and networks to get things done
• Working with user-centred experience design, running focus groups and user testing.
• Collaborative working with 3rd party suppliers
• Prioritising work and managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Influencing stakeholders to think differently about learning
• Embedding, sustaining and measuring behaviour change as a result of your work.

Additional Information

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.