Job Description

We're LandsecWe are Landsec, we build and invest in buildings, spaces and partnerships to create sustainable places, connect communities and realise potential.We are one of the largest real estate companies in Europe, with a portfolio of retail, leisure, workspace and residential hubs. Landsec is shaping a better future by leading our industry on environmental and social sustainability while delivering value for our shareholders, great experiences for our guests and positive change for our communities.
The Role: Provide accurate and professional responses to internal and external people queries.*
Work with the People Director to review, implement and deliver the people strategy for business areas including Performance Management, Talent Management, Learning and Development, Absence Management, Welfare, Talent Acquisition and Reward.*
Manage one People Coordinator to deliver an excellent employee experience via the full employee lifecycle i.e., hiring, contract generation, induction, probation and leavers.*
Build effective working relationships with the senior people team and line managers to influence the business areas' needs in the organisational People Plan.*
Advise line managers on people policies and take a lead on ensuring these reflect changes in legislation and external best practice to add to the Landsec Employee Experience.*
Salary: Competitive*


The Team:This is an exciting opportunity to join a pro-active People Team with a clear set of people objectives and priorities for the coming year. Reporting to a People Director, you'll assist them in supporting specific areas of the business on a range of people priorities and activities, linked to the achievement of Landsec's business plan, company objectives and balanced scorecard.Managing the People Services Team, you'll establish yourself as key point of contact for employees and line managers. You'll do that through your understanding of the business, building trust and delivering on commitments. You will play a key role in helping to drive adoption and embed processes on topics like diversity and inclusion, talent, engagement and reward. It's important that we don't forget to deliver the basics brilliantly too which includes supporting the wider People Team, responding to queries we receive via a joint team inbox, producing contract documentation and processing payroll accurately and on time.
What you will be responsible for: Through effective stakeholder engagement, support leaders and managers across the business units to achieve their objectives through leveraging their people potential within their teams.*
Take a lead on advising and supporting managers in employee relations and performance management cases including drafting settlement agreements, disciplinary, redundancy, grievance processes and TUPE activity.*
Co-deliver training to line managers on people related topics. e.g., best practice talent acquisition, performance planning workshops, one-to-one technical training sessions such as on using workday etc.*
Attend business team meetings as appropriate.*
Support the Reward and L&D team activities i.e. employee benefits, Annual Performance Planning (APP) process and Annual Bonus Plan (ABP) processes.*
Provide support to the People Director on employee engagement action planning activities and priorities.*
Working in partnership with the Talent Acquisition Team and provide guidance to hiring managers on recruitment, such as good practice and D&I requirements.*
Responsible for maintaining accurate employee data on Workday.*
Proactive management of sickness absence cases, recording and reporting on leave of absences, including occupational health referrals, supporting and advising line managers and if required, transitioning employees onto our Group Income Protection scheme.*
Provide data and first level insight into themes and trends for the business unit from various sources such as Workday, Exit Interviews and Engagement Survey responses.*


Your skills, experience and qualifications:
Essential criteria Proven experience of communicating effectively to a range of different stakeholders through a variety of different communication methods.*
Able to demonstrate the ability to effectively prioritise work and manage stakeholder expectations.*
Experience of managing or supporting on different employee relation issues e.g. disciplinary or grievance investigations, long-term absence and wellbeing cases, performance improvement plans and family related queries i.e. maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.*
Experience of working in a People role, dealing effectively with a range of different queries and responding to requests for information.*
Ability to demonstrate an up to date working knowledge of employment law.*


Life and Benefits at Landsec
We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.
Below are some of our core benefits, make sure to visit our My Total Reward page for more information.Performance based annual bonus plan 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year. Enjoy an additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special 'My Day' to take off for whatever you choose. Enhanced pension contributions - Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution. Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection. Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for more details) Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and 'Give As You Earn' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause
Diversity and Inclusion
At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.
We strive to ensure all our information, and services are accessible to and usable by everyone. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please get in touch with our recruitment partners by emailing recruitmentqueries@landsec.com
To find out more about our approach, visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.