People Partner

Lloyd's is the world's leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. We share the collective intelligence and risk sharing expertise of the market's brightest minds, working together for a braver world.

Our role is to inspire courage, so tomorrow's progress isn't limited by today's risks.

Our shared values: we are brave; we are stronger together; we do the right thing; guide what we do and how we act. If you share our values and our passion to build a future that's more sustainable, resilient and inclusive, you'll find a home at Lloyd's - build a braver future with us.

Context

Lloyd's Insurance Company (LIC) Human Resources team is responsible for setting LIC HR strategy in line with overall Corporation strategy and key business priorities. HR supports the business and employees by developing and adopting a range of strategies, expert advice and operational services.

The HR strategy is centered on these strategic themes:

• Releasing the potential of Lloyd's and its people by providing high-quality people expertise as trusted partners
• Delivering Employee experience through recognizing, rewarding and retaining talent through our employee lifecycle
• Driving Business Transformation & People Change by delivering agile and innovative people change programs based on our core values and behaviors
• Focusing on Talent & Leadership by attracting, developing and retaining our talent and building our leadership bench strength
• Improving Culture & Employee Engagement by creating a truly inclusive culture where diversity is valued, and everyone is supported to be their true selves at work
• Underpinning everything we do is a focus on brilliant basics which are the high-touch, business-critical and high-volume activities which are consistently excellent e.g. end-to-end processes & workflow, simplified policies, real-time HR Analytics & Insights.

Role Purpose

• This role, working alongside people managers, is responsible for the development and implementation of the people aspects in line with the business strategy.

Principal Accountabilities

• Support LIC HR team in the delivery of the change and transformation agenda
• Manage the payroll process in Belgium in order to ensure that timely and accurate salary calculations, including benefits, monthly pay-outs and tax withholdings whilst ensuring full compliance with local employment & social security and tax laws
• Ensure application of local employment terms & conditions is equitable and legally compliant. As and when required, makes recommendations for review and continuous improvement. Keep abreast of any legal changes and/or HR trends
• As a member of the HR team drive key talent initiatives including performance development, succession planning, career frameworks and talent pipelining
• Actively support the business agenda on leadership development, engagement, employee relations and inclusion in its widest sense, working collaboratively with HR Corporation
• Build effective partnerships with the business and people managers to ensure all aspects of the people agenda are adding value and contributing to business success
• Integrate Culture, Diversity & Inclusion into all you do with the business - providing coaching and guidance
• Keep a 'finger on the pulse' of the Belgium office, knowing how people are thinking and feeling to define concrete action plan
• Effectively use data to provide insight and drive appropriate people interventions
• Monitor and review size and shape of the organization including ensuring the effective identification of resource needs (e.g. recruitment)
• Provide informal coaching to People Managers and leadership teams advocating self-service and the driving of transactional frontline queries to HR Shared Services

Leadership expectations

The role holder is expected to contribute to an open and transparent culture of risk management and demonstrate a strong awareness of the risks that should be managed within the responsibilities of the role and function.

Skills Knowledge and Experience

Skills

• Strong influencing skills and confident to challenge senior stakeholders
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels and trust
• Proactive team member, collaborative in approach and self-motivated
• Experience in using technology and data to drive people related analytics and insights
• Ability to adapt to different situations requiring interpretive and constructive thinking and a considerable degree of evaluative judgement
• Commercial acumen, entrepreneurial drive, enthusiasm with a people focused change management mindset
• Ability to make appropriate decisions that balance cost, value and business benefit
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

Knowledge

• Excellent working knowledge of employment law with the ability to apply it practically to workplace situations
• Excellent understanding of HR best practice and ability to apply this to employee relations cases
• Experience of formal report writing for different audiences Management or Supervisory experience
• Experience of performance management and working within defined policies and procedures
• Experience of leading on organizational change projects including restructures and redundancy programs

Experience

• Relevant, proven experience, in a role as a senior HR professional in a commercially driven organization
• Proven experience working in a complex organization that requires detail orientation, sound judgment and strong analytical skills
• Up to date and proven experience providing oversight on complex disciplinary, grievance and
  absence management and other employee relations case work
• Experience of coaching Senior Leaders

Diversity and inclusion are a focus for us - Lloyd's aim is to build a diverse, inclusive environment that reflects the global markets we work in. One where everyone is treated with dignity and respect to achieve their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making workplace adjustments, we offer regular health and wellbeing programmes, diversity and inclusion training, employee networks, mentoring and volunteering opportunities as well as investment into your professional development. You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our website.

By choosing Lloyd's, you'll be part of a team that brings together the best minds in the industry, and together with our underwriters and brokers, we create innovative, responsive solutions allowing us to share risk and solve complex problems.

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Job ID R3862