Head of Human Resources, L&G - Asset Management, America
Legal & General · Chicago, IL · 1 wk ago
HybridFinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Committee on all people-related matters, ensuring alignment between business strategy and human capital priorities.
- Translate business objectives into a clear, actionable people strategy that supports growth, performance, and long-term sustainability.
- Act as a visible leader within the organization, modeling LGIMA’s values and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and inclusion.
- Lead enterprise-wide talent acquisition, retention, succession planning, and leadership development strategies to ensure critical capabilities are in place.
- Oversee workforce planning and organizational design to support evolving business models, regulatory requirements, and client needs.
- Partner with leaders to strengthen management capability, performance standards, and feedback culture.
- Champion a strong employee value proposition and support initiatives that enhance engagement, wellbeing, and employee voice.
- Ensure consistent, fair, and commercially sound handling of employee relations matters, safeguarding both employees and the firm.
- Lead culture and change initiatives, particularly during periods of transformation, growth, or restructuring.
- Embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into all aspects of the employee lifecycle, aligned with global strategy and local market needs.
- Partner with leadership to use data, accountability, and policy to drive measurable progress on representation, inclusion, and pay equity.
- Oversee annual performance management, compensation, and promotion cycles, ensuring consistency with market practice, regulatory requirements, and Group policy.
- Partner with Global Reward to ensure competitive, compliant, and cost-effective reward and benefits strategies.
- Provide oversight of HR shared services for the US to ensure service quality, efficiency, and value.
- Leverage HR technology and people analytics to improve decision-making, efficiency, and employee experience.
- Stay informed of external market, regulatory, and employment law developments, ensuring proactive mitigation of people-related risks.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 15 years of progressive HR experience, including senior or executive-level HR leadership within a complex organization.
- Proven experience in asset management strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership on strategy, transformation, and organizational change.
- Experience operating within a global or matrixed organization, balancing local needs with global policy and governance.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field preferred.
- Professional HR certification (e.g., SHRM-SCP / SHRM-CP or equivalent) desirable.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience managing budgets and evaluating return on people investments.