Business Unit: HR & Comms
Salary Range: £31,200 - circa £43,000 per annum
Location: Hybrid with some travel to our Glasgow, London or Newcastle hub at least once a month
Contract Type: Permanent

Our team
We’re seeking a Redeployment Specialist who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a passion for supporting colleagues through organisational change. You’ll be at the heart of our re-deployment efforts, overseeing the end-to-end operational aspects of re-deployment activities across the organisation. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with various HR teams and business stakeholders to ensure a seamless transition experience for our colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:
• Responsible for the effective delivery of re-deployment activity across all business areas, owning the facilitation of individual and volume re-deployments.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders and external partners.
• Develop and implement best practices and strategies for colleague re-deployment.
• Ensure the re-deployment process is equitable and inclusive by design.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition TA) Operations team to align impacted colleagues with new opportunities.
• Oversee the financial, legal, risk, and control environment related to re-deployment.
• Manage a complex portfolio of re-deployment cases, advising on transition plans and ensuring roles are progressed.
• Use data and insights to drive re-deployment activity, implement process improvements, and review SLAs.
• Act as a point of contact for colleagues going through redundancy, offering support and resources.
• Coach and support TA Operations team and hiring managers to ensure compliance with redundancy policy.
• Manage the relationship with our career transition and outplacement partner, LHH, driving improvements in our offering.
• Support the TA Operations team with BAU recruitment and project activity when required.

We need you to have:
• Significant experience in managing re-deployment activities within a large organisation.
• Recruitment experience gained within an inhouse or agency environment.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of inspiring and supporting colleagues through change.
• A results and delivery-focused mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with experience influencing at a senior level.
• Experience in identifying gaps in processes, solving problems, and implementing new ways of working.
• Commitment to inclusivity and fairness in all re-deployment processes.

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.