Senior Social Impact Manager

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Job Title: Social Impact Senior Manager
Contract Type: 12 month FTC
Location: London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 3rd January

We have a truly exciting opportunity to join Royal London on a 12 month FTC to provide leadership to the business to drive our Social Impact strategy. This role gives you the opportunity to lead the evolution of our Social Impact strategy at an exciting time and to develop new priority areas and partnerships. The role holder will be an advocate for mutuality and purpose-driven strategies externally and internally, staying at the forefront of best practice and positioning Royal London as a leader in these fields.

About the role

Highlights of the role include:

1. Influencing and stakeholder management across Royal London Group to elicit collaboration and embed our Social Impact agenda across key teams.
2. Leading and developing the Social Impact team to deliver across an ambitious portfolio of activity with maximum efficiency.
3. Acting as the business SME on Social Impact, providing expert knowledge and bringing best practice from within and outside Financial Services.
4. Operating with credibility and confidence when dealing with multiple senior stakeholder relationships at the highest level within Royal London.
5. Collaborating and influencing across the business, working closely with Strategy, Sustainability, Brand and External Affairs.

About you

What will you bring to the role?

1. Extensive senior stakeholder management.
2. Team and budget management experience.
3. Experience and demonstrable passion for Social Impact.
4. Excellent communication skills with experience of producing and presenting exec or board papers.
5. A successful record of converting an organisational strategy into delivery plans and leading teams against their delivery.
6. Strong risk awareness including the ability to identify a range of risks (commercial, legal, financial, engagement impact etc.) and apply a risk-based approach to decision making including mitigating actions.

If you feel you would be right for this role but do not meet all of the requirements above, please reach out.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Royal London are a purpose-driven mutual, meaning we are customer-owned. This means that our profits are shared with eligible customers, or are invested into our social impact, not paid to shareholders.

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:

1. 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays.
2. Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme.
3. Private medical insurance.
4. Annual bonus scheme.
5. Work from abroad policy.

You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.