Graduate - Enterprise Leadership Programme

Job Title: Graduate Programme – Enterprise Leadership

Location: Alderley Edge

Start date: September 2025

Royal London is the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. We’re owned by our members and work for their benefit, not for shareholder profits, and that makes us different.

We’re looking for highly creative, intellectually curious and enthusiastic graduates to join our two-year cross functional and rotational programme starting September 2025.

You’ll be joining a supportive team of talented, diverse and passionate people who make a real impact on the lives of our customers every day.

What’s in it for you?

• Starting salary of £33,000 per annum plus bonus.
• Generous pension (double matching, up to 14%) and life assurance (up to X8 salary)
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days.
• Private medical insurance, as well as 24/7 confidential access to health, legal and financial advice.
• Great office facilities, with hybrid working and placement location allowances and support available.
• Opportunity to join our inclusion networks, join events across the business and build your network.

What will you be doing?

You’ll be joining a small cohort of Graduates on a two year, cross functional and rotational programme which has been designed to grow future enterprise leadership capability.

Each placement will be structured to build knowledge and exposure to the full breadth of our core business, as well as receive targeted experiences that meet our strategic capability needs.

The placements will be around eight months each and the exact rotation will depend on the needs of the business. This will include placements based from other sites in the UK or Ireland. As such, it is important that you are flexible and open minded.

In each new placement, you’ll have a dedicated People Leader and Buddy, as well as a Mentor that will stay with you throughout. You’ll also come together as a peer cohort group to:

• Receive targeted learning and development opportunities.
• Participate in group initiatives and events to help you understand our strategy and key priorities across the business.
• Work on overarching projects over the whole two-year programme.

You’ll get to learn and work cross functionally with colleagues to analyse data and other inputs, helping to provide context to allow for informed business decisions.

As you learn and support with the day-to-day operations, we’ll look to you to show off your creative flair, bringing fresh perspective to existing processes and methodologies.

What skills and experience do I need?

• Recently qualified graduate with an interest in the life, pensions and investment industry.
• Comfortable with IT and data, with a willingness to learn.
• Intellectually curious, adaptable to change and not afraid to share new ideas and question the status quo.
• Proactive and driven to achieve and learn.
• Able to deliver multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and engage with stakeholders across the business.
• Good judgement and strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to identify, articulate and communicate the key conclusions from analysis in simple terms.

What else do I need to know?

Exact start date is to be confirmed; however, it is likely to be Monday 16 September 2025. You need to be available to start on that date and be able to take up placements at any of our sites in the UK or Ireland.

Your application should include a short cover letter that states why you are suitable for the ELP Graduate Programme. Please apply for one role only, which should be the preferred location for assessment centre and or your first placement.

If selected, you’ll need to be available for an interview and assessment centre on site. Exact date is to be confirmed; however, this is likely to be mid-January 2025.

At Royal London we believe your difference is our strength and our organisation benefits from the different perspectives that diversity brings. Studies have shown that people from under-represented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience isn't a perfect fit with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

Our expectation is that colleagues will come into the office for 50% of their time. This hybrid model is built around our mutual mindset, thinking about what is good for us as individuals (the ‘me’) and in the context of what is right for our customers, our colleagues and the wider Royal London Group (the ‘we’).

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise  to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

Royal London is an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills – whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for all our roles. We also welcome applications from individuals who have taken an extended career break.

Requisition ID: 11934