Aviva’s success is down to its 22,000 people. This is a great opportunity to shape and lead the culture, talent and development activities for all of them. This is a highly pragmatic and commercial role – all the people interventions we deliver in Aviva have tangible benefit for our customers, people and business.

A bit about the job:

• Shaping Aviva’s culture and engagement, leadership, learning & careers, and Executive succession plans working with the CPO, Executive Committee, Board and wider business.
• Accountable for the capability of our people – now and for the future. Building the learning and development for the skills we need today and tomorrow to be a high performing sustainable business.
• Creating and embedding a customer and performance culture in line with Aviva’s values, that produces tangible customer and commercial benefit, aligned to our strategic priorities, through our people.
• This is a hugely impactful role working as part of a high performing, delivery focused and pacey team

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Really good understanding of all aspects of Talent, Leadership, Culture and Capability using strong data and analytics skills to measure impact and continuously improve what we do.
• Significant experience of shaping and, more importantly, executing brilliantly simple, tangible interventions that make our people and the business better in a measurable way.
• Strong consulting, influencing and communication skills at all levels including Board and Executive Committees. Good political sensitivity and acumen – able to read the internal and external environment and proactively steer decision making accordingly, acting as an ambassador for the People Function and for Aviva.
• Brilliant leader and behavioural role model, with expertise and a track record of working successfully within a matrixed, environment, coordinating regional and enterprise-wide initiatives.

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.

• Highly competitive salary
• Bonus opportunity which generously rewards high performance
• Annual stock award
• 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
• Private Health for you and family
• 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

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

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.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

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 send an email to jonny.briggs@aviva.com.