Public Affairs Manager

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes. It's up to us inL&G Group functions- which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs - to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we're helping to improve our customers' lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We're recruiting for aPublic Affairs Manager to join us. You will help deliver Legal & General's engagement programme withernment, parliamentarians, and policymakers; provide political analysis to support the Group in making strategic decisions; and help ensure Legal & General's role as a thought leader is both recognised and enhanced. What you'll be doing:

Effectively monitoring the landscape for emerging political and public policy developments, evaluating the strategic relevance, andmunicating effectively to the relevant internal stakeholders

Helping to identify public policy risks and opportunities, supporting the Public Affairs team in delivering an effective public policy management framework, including a CEO policy dashboard

Supporting the delivery of a measurement and evaluation framework for our external reputation

Proactively helping the Public Affairs team to develop a policy agenda that support our new corporate strategy

Providing timely political analysis and briefings on relevant topics, supporting our Group CEO and other senior business leaders tomunicate our policy positions externally

Representing L&G externally to key stakeholders

Supporting the Senior Public Affairs Manager in creating a strategy for engagement and research that is aligned to our business priorities

Helping to ensure that the Public Affairs team has effectively responded to a range of returns to public bodies that it is responsible for, and ensuring all correspondence is in line with our consumer duty accountability

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

Extensive knowledge of the current UK political landscape

An understanding of the asset management sector and its policy challenges would be an advantage

Previous experience of working withernments, parliamentarians, trade bodies, and think tanks

Previous experience of managing public policy risks and issues and providing advice to senior internal stakeholders

Strongmunication and relationship management skills

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)

At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday

Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice

There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online

In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain's Most Admiredpany in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers' money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you'll be part of a weing culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable amodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you're open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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