Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Do you want to play a central role in shaping meaningful Diversity & Inclusion initiatives across a major organisation? As our D&I Lead, you'll translate strategy into measurable action, driving initiatives that create real impact across Sopra Steria UK. Working at the heart of the business, you'll lead inclusion programmes, empower our networks to thrive, and connect our UK efforts with the wider Group ED&I strategy, ensuring consistency, momentum and lasting change. This role is offered on a hybrid basis, with flexibility on location; however, regular travel to our London office will be required. What you'll be doing:

• Lead and govern employee-led Inclusion Networks, ensuring alignment with D&I priorities and consistent, high-quality delivery across the organisation.
• Own and deliver end-to-end D&I reporting and insight, translating data into clear, actionable outcomes for both UK and Group stakeholders.
• Act as the UK lead for Group D&I, contributing to policy development, sharing best practice, and supporting cross-country initiatives and campaigns.
• Drive the UK disability agenda, managing external partnerships and contributing to internal working groups to strengthen inclusion outcomes.
• Oversee D&I communications and campaigns, ensuring consistent, engaging messaging that raises awareness and drives meaningful change.
• Shape and deliver inclusion learning and compliance, working with external partners to build capability and embed inclusive behaviours
  
  Experience supporting or leading employee-led inclusion networks, ideally across multiple focus areas.
• Background working within a large, complex, and ideally international organisation.
• Proven experience delivering inclusion initiatives or programmes end-to-end.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using tools such as Excel or Power BI to generate insight and inform decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, balancing operational delivery with strategic activity.
• Collaborative and proactive approach, with strong stakeholder management, networking skills, and the ability to connect wider organisational priorities.
  
  Our business is, first and foremost, about people. And it always has been. The solutions we develop are driven by the connections they make and the problems they solve. Our services only matter if they work for people and if they serve a greater purpose. Known for our collaborative approach, we provide consulting and digital services, creating innovative solutions, at scale, to deliver sustainable growth and services that make life better.
Our work touches many lives in the UK. From helping the Government provide essential public and health services that offer more convenience and choice, to improving financial services to deliver fairer, customer-centric solutions. Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value. We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us! We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.