Strategic Value Partner
Location: Milton Keynes (some time spent in Triton Square).
As a Strategic Value Partner, you will partner with the CEO of CCB (Corporate & Commercial Business) and the senior leadership team, 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.
Responsibilities
* 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 ExCo/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.
* Talent Management: Collaborate with senior leadership to construct, develop and implement a strategic talent approach that aligns with the SWP strategy and strategic blueprint 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 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 engagement 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 P&C, 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 (required)
* Significant experience in Financial Services, ideally in Corporate Banking (required)
* Proven ability to influence at ExCo level and manage complex stakeholder environments (required)
* Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions (required)
* Excellent communication, coaching and relationship building skills (required)
* Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptability, with the ability to easily adjust or change working style. (required)
* Customer obsessed, with a passion for solving problems to help make our customers better happen (required)
Nice to Have
* Experience of working with a corporate and commercial business (preferred)
* Experience of strategic workforce planning, and implementing agile ways of working (preferred)
* Experience working in a large scale, global, matrix organisation (preferred)
Local Compliance
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Hybrid Working Pattern
Roles are site-based with a hybrid working pattern, where colleagues are expected to attend the office at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
Right to work in the UK
* Every individual must have the right to work in the UK to commence employment with Santander either by way of nationality, visa or work permit. If you do require a working visa / permit this will not influence our decision on whether to progress your application. However, if you do not have a right to work, or an application for a working visa / permit is unsuccessful, Santander will not proceed with your application and will withdraw any conditional offer previously made.
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