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Standard Life

London, City of London, EC4M 8BU

Financial and Insurance Activities

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About Standard Life

The UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. Our c.12 million customers help us to understand that the journey to and through retirement can be as unique as the person making it. We’re here to support everyone with the right guidance and products at the right time. We want to help people take control of their longer lives, plan what they want for the future and take steps to make it a reality. With 6,800 employees, a powerful voice and shared purpose of helping people secure a life of possibilities, we have the scale and ambition to make better longer lives a reality for all.

Our commitment to the Armed Forces Community

We are the colleague community for all those in Phoenix Group, who identify with the Military Community; where we can come together as a community, explore, understand and support the military community; Veterans, Reservists, Cadet Adult Volunteers and the immediate family of serving and reservist members of the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces Network exists to help provide support to those connected with the military at Phoenix, whilst also providing all of our colleagues the opportunity to give something back to the armed forces community. Each year we support selected charities affiliated with the military, conducting fundraising and awareness events. Our main activities are focused around: ​​​​​​​Community - supporting and representing the Military Community within Phoenix. The Armed Forces Covenant - Phoenix is a signatory of and we are here to help the business to deliver on the commitments this brings. Recruitment – supporting formally and informally the recruitment of members of the military community into our business Giving back – supporting the military community within and without Phoenix Group, delivering on the Armed Forces Covenant commitment and working with charitable causes that support Armed Forces. We work to help make Phoenix a 'forces-friendly' environment as part of and support to, Phoenix's commitment to being an inclusive employer. We work behind the scenes to help the business understand the real value of employing members of the military community

What we offer:

We promote that we are an Armed Forces-friendly organisation

We promote that we are an Armed Forces-friendly organisation, to our staff, customers, suppliers, contractors and wider public.

We support the employment of veterans

We support the employment of veterans and recognise military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process

We offer flexible leave for military spouses

We provide flexibility in granting leave for Service spouses and partners before, during and after a partner’s deployment.

We support our employees who are members of the Reserve Forces

We support our employees who are members of the Reserve Forces and actively encouraging members of staff to become Reservists’s

We support Military cadets

We support our employees who are, or encourage others to become, volunteer leaders in military cadet organisations whilst supporting local military cadet units. We also recognise the benefits of employing cadets and ex-cadets within our workforce

We support Armed Forces Day

We support Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, the Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance activities.

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