Senior HR Business Partner, Global Facultative

Gallagher Re Human Resources Role

At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you'll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence. Together, we transform advanced insights and market intelligence into strategies that protect businesses, drive performance, and shape the future of reinsurance. We're a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.

To partner with the Gallagher Re Facultative Leadership Team to develop and deliver pragmatic commercial people plans to achieve strategic business objectives for a start-up division that operates globally and has significant organic expansion plans over the next five years. Deliver divisional and global people initiatives effectively drawing on HR Centres of Excellence expertise to ensure high quality, commercial solutions. To support the HR Director on a range of different projects and responsibilities to add value to the strategic and tactical commercial agendas across Gallagher Re Facultative.

How you'll make an impact :

Partnering

Provide expert coaching and consulting advice to members of the Facultative leadership team along with appropriate challenge to ensure business and people objectives are met. Partner with members of the Facultative Leadership team and to drive a high performing culture, improve employee experience and improve retention. Partner with local HR teams to oversee local colleague issues. Support the HR Director with the creation and delivery of divisional people plans for their areas of responsibility within Gallagher Re Facultative.

Developing & Implementing Plans

Developing and implementing plans that help to develop and engage employees. Partner with key stakeholders within Gallagher Re Facultative support / enable their strategic objectives. Promote, support and drive engagement with all available HR / people-related policies, tools processes and initiatives including, but not limited to : Learning and Development proposition Manager and employee HR system functionality including MI reporting Talent Acquisition Employee Benefits and Wellbeing proposition Family-friendly policies.

Partner with the relevant HR Centres of Excellence (e.g Employee Relations, TA, L&D, Compensation, L&D) to enable and deliver human capital solutions for stakeholders.

Performance

Embedding a performance culture and consequence management approach including coaching managers on creation, implementation and monitoring of Performance Improvement Plans and effective / consistent deployment of local recognition. Analyzing data and trends to identify high & low performance in order to recommend appropriate action. Facilitate performance rating moderation sessions. Perform quality assessments of myPerformance goal-setting and reviews. Promote and support global & divisional recognition initiatives. Train and upskill business area on myPerformance reviews and goal setting.

Internal Talent Management and External Talent Acquisition

Under guidance of HR Director, support the delivery of succession planning and career development in order to identify and mitigate succession "gaps" and embed talent approach. Facilitate talent and succession planning sessions and support career conversations with identified employees. Act as advocate for global and divisional talent initiatives in liaison with L&D Centre of Excellence. Liaising with various Talent Acquisition teams, engage in talent acquisition planning and execution. Actively participate in the assessment and selection of senior / specialist hires as required.

Business Change

To provide project management, facilitation and direct support as required to people-related impacts arising from change projects (including Mergers & Acquisitions). Lead on or support the HR Director regarding any organisational change where this relates to HR-related activities e.g. business reorganisation. Directly, and or / co-ordinate resources from HR Service Delivery as appropriate, deliver any required employee consultation and communication process. Work with HR Service Delivery to support redeployment opportunities for colleagues impacted by business change.

Employee Relations

Under guidance of HR Director and the in-house legal teams, accountable for the advice and guidance to the business on more complex employee relations cases with a view to achieving risk-mitigated commercial outcomes. Under guidance of HR Director and in-house legal teams, accountable for the preparation of risk assessments and preparation of standard settlement agreement. Act as point of escalation on complex ER cases. Inform key stakeholders / business units of any changes or anticipated changes in HR policies and procedures.

Reward

To work with HR Director and business leaders, liaising with the Reward Centre of Excellence as required, on identification and implementation of reward strategies for individuals and teams. Support annual pay and bonus review process including data management, moderation of award recommendations and pay and bonus communications. Promote total reward philosophy in order to improve engagement and retention. Under guidance of HR Director, support creation, documentation and administration of incentive plans adhering to all required reward philosophy, principles and governance requirements.

Culture & Engagement

Drive and facilitate engagement actions planning and activity at local level. Embed the Gallagher Way across leadership teams. Support the creation of an inclusive culture.

HR Function / Team Working

Work collaboratively as part of a "One HR" team engaging and liaising effectively with HR Centres of Excellence. Actively seek to drive a culture of continuous improvement within the HR function. Collaborate with other functional e.g. Risk & Compliance, Finance, Legal and other key stakeholders as required. Represent the HR function in cross functional / cross divisional programmes as required.

Governance

Comply with AJG Professional Standards Manual in accordance with statutory requirements for role with specific attention, but not limited to Managing Client information, Whistle Blowing, Treating Customers Fairly. Carry out duties following internal policies and procedures in accordance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, good governance and Gallagher's shared values, in particular, putting clients at the heart of our business.

About You

Bachelor's degree and three years related experience required. Sound up to date Employment Law knowledge required. Knowledge of financial services desirable. Experience Progressive HR business partnering experience within large, multinational corporations. Experience of managing HR issues across multiple countries. Proven ability to develop a good understanding of business issues and how to identify and deliver HR interventions and solutions to meet business needs. Track record of contributing to the management of change successfully and experience of delivering on successful restructuring programmes including exits. Experience of dealing with complex relationships using coaching / feedback techniques. Tactical negotiation and influencing experience with internal / external stakeholders. Demonstrated rapport-building experience. Evidence of effectively prioritising risks to manage workload. Experience of compensation and incentivisation vehicles.

Skills / Other

Strong client focus, including the ability to manage potentially contentious interactions with varying negotiation strategies. Strong interpersonal skills, including listening, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the Company, including senior level management. Good presentation skills with experience interacting and presenting to colleagues / senior management. Solutions focussed mind-set with the ability to develop creative approaches and solutions. Ability to interact comfortably with colleagues / senior level management. Able to manage multiple projects and priorities with excellent attention to detail. Highly motivated and results focused. Highest degree of ethics and integrity in client focus. MS office proficiency. 15% travel.

Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market / geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business / practice area, supply / demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve : Medical / dental / vision plans, which start from day one! Life and accident insurance 401(K) and Roth options Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA) Educational expense reimbursement Paid parental leave Other benefits include : Digital mental health services (Talkspace) Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function) Training programs Gallagher Thrive program elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing Charitable matching gift program And more...

The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

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