Senior People Change Consultant

Senior People Change Partner

Salary: National - up to £85,000 / London – up to £110,000

Are you a People / HR change expert? Do you have a track record of delivery on a breadth of people change initiatives across various business units and functions on key projects and programmes?

If your answer is ‘yes’, then we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a Senior People Change Partner to be responsible for delivering strategic business outcomes through brilliant People change on a wide variety of initiatives across the Aviva business. Bringing agility and pace to approach and delivery through your change expertise and experience, together with your HR knowledge.

A bit about the job:

The successful individual will provide specialist change consultancy support on behalf of Heads of People and People Directors, working alongside senior leaders in the business to ensure people change and transformation activities are planned and executed smoothly to deliver strategic business outcomes.

You will be part of an agile centralised consultancy team, aligned to lead on one or several people change initiatives, working within any part of the business on varied activity.  This could be leading on one or more standalone projects or large transformation programmes.   

Working directly with business leaders and the broader People Team you will determine the end-to-end people change journey, including scoping, planning, consultation, implementation, embedding the changes and tracking benefits on initiatives such as organisational restructuring, organisation design, M&A, TUPE, culture change and workforce transformation.

Aviva operates a “smart-working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office, and this role can be based on any of our UK sites.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong experience of Change Management within the People/HR function is essential, with a wider HR knowledge and awareness of the activities across the People function.
• Ability to flex style, challenge and positively influence a variety of different stakeholders, across multiple levels of seniority.
• Growth mindset and an ability to work in an environment where the work is not prescribed, working with stakeholders to define problems and outcomes, then driving the delivery at pace.  
• Act as a sole contributor as well as delivering through others, through great leadership skills and project management.
• Financial Services experience would desirable.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary up to £85,000 (National) / up to £110,000 (London) (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary; Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alannah Burgess a call on 07391381173 or send an email to alannah.burgess1@aviva.com.