ED, HR Business Partner, Santander
Offers discretionary performance-related annual bonus, Sharesave and Partnership shares plans
Office located in Triton Square, London
Retail and commercial bank
Open for applications
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Offers discretionary performance-related annual bonus, Sharesave and Partnership shares plans
Office located in Triton Square, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people and businesses prosper.
Role
Who you are
- A proven HR leader with significant experience partnering with senior stakeholders in complex, fast-paced, and regulated environments
- Deep expertise in key HR disciplines including talent management, succession planning, organisational effectiveness, and employee relations
- Prior experience working in or supporting investment banking, capital markets, or financial services is highly advantageous
- Strong leadership experience, including direct management of HR professionals at senior levels
- Comfortable operating in a matrixed, global organisation with multiple stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal, coaching, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across all levels
- Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and HR regulatory frameworks
- Has a general overview of each Specialist HR area, the key deliverables and oversight of how these link to ensure a joined-up approach in business areas
- Sound understanding of the business area(s) the role supports, including business targets, operating models, and regulatory landscape
- Ability to analyse data and make appropriate recommendations for action
- Ability to engage with key stakeholders building trust and confidence across both the HR function and the business to deliver the HR priorities
- Experience of managing and influencing people issues, identifying a range of solution meeting business expectations
- Ability to work collaboratively, providing constructive challenge on content of solutions, to drive best practices and support team delivery
- Sound written communication skills and the ability to convey complex topics in a simple, engaging way
- CIPD membership or equivalent qualification
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification desirable
What the job involves
- The HR function focuses on attracting, developing, and retaining the employees of SCIB UK via the following functions:
- Reward – Strategic Remuneration: Managing remuneration policy & annual salary & bonus review processes, ensuring alignment to regulatory requirements. Benefits and Pension Services and regulatory reporting
- Strategic Business Partnering: Strategic HR support to meet business objectives by ensuring the successful delivery of the organisation's people plan
- Resourcing: Managing end to end activities of resourcing. International mobility
- Culture and HR Strategy: Strategic support to ExCo and support to the business and employees to develop diverse & inclusive environment, engagement, insights, performance management and managing culture & change
- Training and Talent Development: Development, management, and facilitation of employee learning and development programmes. Identification of potential & emerging talent, talent strategy planning and succession planning,
- Employee Relations, Policy, Change and Health, Safety and Wellbeing: Union relationship management, development, and review of HR policies, change management and specialist HR case management
- HR Operations: Employee Lifecycle Administration and advice, including complex case management and onboarding activities, partnering projects, policy guidance and HR Systems maintenance and support
- Payroll: Management and administration
- HR Reporting, People MI, and Analytics & Data Management: Providing people MI internally to HR and externally to the organisation
- As a senior Strategic People Partner, partners with the Executive Committee (ExCo) members/Senior Leaders of the Santander London Branch (SLB) and their teams to provide commercially focused counsel, coaching, and advice
- Delivers the people agenda for Santander SCIB UK, partnering and supporting the business to ensure engagement with people priorities
- Through collaborative working relationships with the Business Areas, supports the identification of current and future people related opportunities, challenges and risks and delivers initiatives providing a seamless customer experience
- Manages change and BAU activity within the allocated business areas, working with stakeholders and providing on-going support to the Head of Human Resources and other HR SMEs
- Participates and makes value–added contributions to wider HR and BP team initiatives and activities at the local and Global level for SCIB across the full range of HR disciplines
- Manages other HRBPs as required
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Santander serves 14 million UK customers as a retail and commercial bank. Despite a mixed history, including issues with call centre service, mis-selling PPI, and anti-money laundering control failures between 2012 and 2017, Santander continues to thrive by focusing on innovation, digitalisation, and sustainable, responsible growth.
Recently, Santander has enhanced its digital and mobile services to meet the needs of modern banking customers. This includes the My Home Manager app, which provides mortgage customers with a centralised platform for their information, and increased fraud alerts to protect less digitally literate customers as they transition online. These efforts aim to connect physical and digital channels for a seamless customer experience, positioning Santander to better compete against digital banks like Monzo and Starling.
In addition to these digital advancements, Santander has joined forces with Iberpay in Spain to become inaugural participants in the European Payments Council’s One-Leg Out Cross-border Transactions Instant Scheme (OCT Inst). This initiative is set to introduce global instant transfers, further emphasising Santander's commitment to innovation and enhancing its service offerings in the digital banking landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 25 days is the minimum paid holiday, with the option to sell or buy more
- A company pension and life cove
- Sharesave and partnership shares
- Family friendly policies
- Employee discounts with some of the UK’s most recognisable brands
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car scheme with salary sacrifice
- Charitable giving options
- Special rates on our products and services
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Mike Regnier
(CEO, not founder)Former CEO of the Yorkshire Building Society, where they also previously worked as Chief Customer Officer and Chief Commercial Officer.
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