People Control Senior Manager

End Date Thursday 25 June 2026

Overview

Job Title: People Control Senior Manager

Salary Range: £85,493 - £100,580 per annum (plus an extensive benefits package).

Locations: Bristol, Edinburgh, or Leeds.

Hours: Full time.

Working Pattern: Hybrid - at least two days or 40% of time at an office site.

We support flexible working options, including hybrid working and job share.

Responsibilities

As a People Control Senior Manager in the IP&I Chief Controls Office (CCO), you will lead the planning and delivery of people control actions across the business. Your role combines risk and control expertise with data based insights, governance precision, and influencing skills to establish people related controls within the wider risk environment.

• Lead the assessment and oversight of the people control environment, identifying material, systemic and emerging risks and ensuring timely reporting of blocking issues.
• Create clear, concise and actionable people risk and control insights, including management information, trend analysis and reporting for executive and governance forums.
• Analyse a wide range of data sources to identify trends, root causes and suggest proportionate interventions that improve control efficiency.
• Create and track primary risk indicators, control actions and governance results to support sound oversight and informed decision making aligned with risk appetite.
• Deliver trustworthy challenge and support to senior internal customers, reinforcing accountability, developing control maturity and promoting continuous improvement across the people control agenda.
• Support the management of people risk events, issues and remediation activity, including investigation support, root cause analysis and tracking of actions to completion.
• Manage and lead ad hoc central initiatives as part of the CCO leadership team.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable background in people risk, risk and control, governance, assurance or a similar area within a complex regulated setting.
• Solid knowledge of risk and control frameworks, governance processes and effective implementation of controls addressing people related risks.
• Ability to analyse and interpret multiple data sources to identify trends, evaluate control efficiency and generate clear, outcome focused insight.
• Excellent collaboration, management and influencing skills, with confidence to challenge constructively and build positive relationships across the business, CCO and People & Places.
• Strong communication skills, with experience delivering clear reporting and written materials for senior leaders and governance forums.
• Good judgement, curiosity and a continuous improvement approach, with the ability to translate technical requirements into practical, business relevant actions.

EEO & Diversity

We recognise that skills develop in many ways. If you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers.