Director of Strategic Inclusion Initiatives

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Legal & General Full time

Job Overview

L&G, a leading financial services organisation, seeks an exceptional candidate to drive strategic inclusion initiatives. With a strong heritage and exciting future, we're one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers, and insurers.

About the Role

We are seeking a Group Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing to lead our DI&W team at L&G. You will be instrumental in delivering plans to make L&G more diverse, inclusive, and a place where everyone can thrive.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Define, iterate, and implement the DI&W strategy, aligned with the organisation's ambitions and goals.
  • Act as a subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders, influencing the right agenda and approach, and engaging regularly with the Board.
  • Work with Group D&I Executive Sponsor, Senior Executives nominees to the Group D&I Council, and divisional exec D&I Sponsors, to effectively execute D&I plans across the business.
  • Own the linkage between DI&W and how they contribute to L&G's overall culture, building consistent messaging to explain how and why DI&W matters and creates commercial value for the firm.
  • Lead the delivery of plans to deliver improvements to workforce diversity and wider culture, collaborating with other teams to deliver initiatives while using data and insight to understand and resolve issues.
  • Shape and support L&G's active employee networks and groups, supporting the development and implementation of DI&W policy, testing where needed with different groups across the firm.
  • Own the definition of DI&W key performance indicators and provide regular progress reporting to internal and external audiences.

Qualifications

  • You must be passionate about DI&W with excellent knowledge of external trends, best practices, challenges, and how to apply them in a business context.
  • Experienced in delivering targeted programmes of work from inception to completion in a matrix/divisional environment.
  • Presence, impact, and high emotional intelligence, able to establish warm and genuine relationships at all levels, both inside and outside the organisation.
  • Experience of writing Board papers, presenting, and influencing Board/ExCo level.
  • Innovative, motivated, self-starter with skills to deal with resource constraints, changing priorities, and navigating ambiguity.
  • Leading high performing teams and managing budgets.
  • Experience working within Financial Services or a complex, regulated environment.

About L&G

We're one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers, and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. We strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discuss flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

Salary: £80,000 - £110,000 per annum

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