People & HR
People Change Consultant- FTC until end of Dec 2026
Job ID: 010337
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Salary: Up to £55,000 (depending on experience) + Bonus & Benefits
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People Change Consultant (known internally as Organisation Effectiveness Partner Implementation of structural changes)
Contract: FTC until end of Dec 2026
Location: Broad Gate (Leeds), Hybrid
About the role
We're looking for an Employee Relations & Organisational Change Specialist with deep expertise in organisational change, workforce restructuring and Suitable Alternative Employment (SAE) assessments. You'll play a pivotal role in helping leaders navigate complex people change, ensuring colleague treatment decisions are fair, evidence-based and aligned to employment legislation and Society policy.
What you'll be doing:
Implementation & colleague experience
- Lead the implementation of organisational design changes, restructures and operating model transformations.
- Act as the subject matter expert on employee relations aspects of organisational change, advising leaders on the most appropriate colleague treatment approach.
- Assess proposed and existing roles to determine whether they constitute Suitable Alternative Employment (SAE), alternative employment, selection situations or informal change, ensuring robust and evidence-based decision making.
- Provide expert advice on redundancy, redeployment, consultation and selection processes, balancing organisational objectives with fair and consistent colleague outcomes.
- Partner with business leaders to plan and deliver trade union engagement, colleague communications and end-to-end change implementation plans.
- Coach and support senior leaders through complex ER challenges arising from organisational change, ensuring legal compliance, consistency and positive colleague experience.
About you
- Significant experience leading complex organisational change, restructures and workforce transformation programmes.
- Deep technical expertise in employee relations and organisational change, including redundancy, collective and individual consultation, selection processes, redeployment and Suitable Alternative Employment (SAE) assessments.
- Proven ability to assess and compare roles, using sound judgement to determine colleague treatment and redeployment outcomes in complex change situations.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law and experience applying it pragmatically within large-scale organisational change.
- Strategic thinker with a data-informed approach, strong judgement and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Read more about our commitment to charity and our communitiesSimilar Roles
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Payroll Specialist- 12 Month FTC
Job ID: 010318
Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ
Job type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Salary: £Competitive (depending on experience) + Bonus & Benefits
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