Are you looking for a graduate role in which you can gain broad experience across HR? Do you want to work with collaborative teams who welcome challenge? Are you keen to be part of an organisation with a strong social purpose at its core?

We are looking for graduates who can answer “yes” to the above to join our HR Graduate Programme. The HR Graduate Programme is a great opportunity to get to grips with the fundamentals of HR. It’s also a fantastic time to join Legal & General’s HR community as it progresses in its transformation journey and plays a pivotal role in the business’ continued success.

Programme length: Two years

Programme type: 3 rotations

At Legal & General, we want all employees to feel fulfilled in their work and excited about being part of Legal & General’s story. The HR function is central to enabling and delivering this culture, supporting leaders, line managers and employees to ensure people-related elements of the organisation’s strategy are executed. You will rotate through three different roles during the 2-year programme, developing your professional network and expanding on your skills, through a structured learning and development programme, before rolling off onto a permanent role within one of our teams.

Some of the day-to-day activities could include:

• Responding directly to employee and line manager HR queries, ensuring an exceptional employee experience throughout the employee life cycle
• Supporting a varied Employee Relations caseload including disciplinaries, grievances, absence, sickness, performance management and occupational health
• Supporting HR projects, including Legal & General’s HR Transformation programme
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement to HR processes, ways of working and technology
• Managing HR-related change, including process mapping and stakeholder engagement
• Producing HR Management Information (MI) and insights
• Assisting with annual HR processes like pay and performance reviews

Learning and Development

As a graduate in HR, we’ll equip you with all the skills you need, while also giving you support to achieve your Level 5 HR Apprenticeship with CIPD. You’ll learn on the job from our HR experts and be surrounded by mentors, providing you with an excellent platform to begin your HR career.

You will join the enterprise-wide induction in September 2023 where you will have the opportunity to learn more about Legal & General and build a network with our other gradates.

First and foremost, we are looking for people who embody our behaviours:

Straightforward - doing what we say and saying what we mean
Collaborative - working together constructively
Purposeful – working with pace and energy

We’re not expecting prior industry experience, but we’ll want to see that you have the tools to develop quickly. These include:

• 2:1 Degree (any discipline)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Flexible and a team-player
• Curiosity and an eagerness to learn
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise effectively
• An analytical mind with a good understanding of basic data analysis approaches
• Competent IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

The role will be based in London and will involve a flexible working approach whereby you split your time between working from home and the office.
It will also involve some travel across our core hubs in Cardiff and Hove

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days’ holiday, private medical insurance, discretionary performance related bonuses, paid overtime, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products.

As a company, to be one of the world's largest Asset Managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurances brands, we are diverse by our very nature. And we're a company that wants to use our diversity and influence to make society better in the long term - for everyone. To do this we need to be a company that welcomes everyone, where everyone can succeed. That means we're committed to building an inclusive culture in L&G where we can all perform at our best, no matter who we are, what we do or where we do it. So, whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

We believe that good businesses are built on doing the right thing and strive to do what is best for both our people and our customers. This means, enabling you to bring your best self to work by giving you what you need, when you need it.

Therefore, we have designed a process that puts you in control, because we recognise your time is valuable. At each step, make sure you take time to pause and reflect before progressing to the next, as each subsequent step will ask for a bit more of your time.

We want you to feel comfortable that this process is as fair and inclusive as possible, so please let us know if you need an accommodation for any disability.

At each step we will give more information and clear instructions on what actions you need to take. You will be screened at each of these steps. In brief our recruitment process will include:

The application to this role asking you to upload your CV, application questions, online testing (General Ability), a recorded video interview, and an assessment centre (line manager interview, a presentation, a group exercise).

Please note that we work with an external company, SHL, to process all online tests and video interviews. By submitting your application, you are agreeing for your personal information (name and email) to be securely sent to them. If you have any questions about this information transfer, then please email futuretalentrecruitment@landg.com before applying for the role.

For any queries, please contact futuretalentrecruitment@landg.com; however please note we are unable to accept any email applications.