People Function Support Officer

Royal London Group; Wilmslow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the UK is seeking a People Function Support Officer to coordinate projects and support the People Team. Responsibilities include ensuring timely delivery of activities, reporting progress, and organizing meetings. The ideal candidate has strong project management skills and effective communication abilities. This role offers competitive benefits including 28 days of leave and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in project management or similar functions.
• Ability to analyze complex data for actionable insights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities across the People Function.
• Support tracking and reporting of progress.
• Organize meetings and ensure follow-ups.

Skills

Project management skills

Analytical ability

Effective communication

Stakeholder management

Collaboration skills

Initiative

Detail-oriented

Job description

As a People Function Support Officer, you will play a vital role in supporting the Planning and Governance Lead and the People Leadership Team (PLT) to deliver on our functional plan. You'll help coordinate activities, track progress, and ensure the smooth execution of day-to-day operations across the People Team.

About the role

• Coordinate activities and workflows across the People Function, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with strategic goals.
• Support the PLT by tracking progress, preparing updates, and coordinating stakeholder input.
• Collate and monitor the People Plan, providing analysis and reporting to identify priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Own initiatives and project deliverables as delegated, collaborating with stakeholders.
• Support the tracking and reporting of People risk metrics.
• Maintain accurate records of committee actions and ensure follow-up and closure of outstanding items.
• Organise internal meetings and events, including agenda preparation, minute-taking, and follow-up actions.
• Support cyclical processes and reporting requirements for governance and planning cycles.
  Sound project management skills.
• Good analytical ability, able to interrogate complex data sources for actionable insight.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous experience of senior stakeholder management.
• Strong collaborator, able to build trusted relationships.
• Initiative-taker who owns outcomes.
• Determined and resilient, able to manage multiple priorities.
• Curious and eager to learn.
• Conscientious, with pride in accuracy and detail.
  Royal London is the UK's largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company. Our People Team is at the heart of driving strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with executive priorities, and delivering business-critical outcomes for the Group Chief People Officer (GCPO)., We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits