HR Business Partner

London, England, United Kingdom

4/16/2025

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

A Hybrid working model

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Department Summary

What does a HR Business Partner do at Hogarth?

The HR Business Partner plays a vital role within the People Team. Acting as the main point of contact for your business areas, you will deliver a proactive, commercially driven HR support and guidance to our employees and the wider business.

You will have operational support from our HR Coordinators and a HR Advisor.

What does a HR Business Partner do at Hogarth?

Some of the key responsibilities of the HR Business Partners are;

• Supporting and advising, line managers and business leaders on all aspects of organisational design and change management, including TUPE and team restructures.
• Advising and coaching managers through employee relations matters.
• Partnering with line managers to build their competence and confidence in enabling them to effectively lead their team.
• Acquire an in depth understanding of your business units and their people challenges, providing a proactive and commercially aligned support service that is tailored to their needs.
• Interpret and cascade the UK HR strategy, implementing initiatives at a local level for your business units and their needs.
• Effectively partner and collaborate with Finance and Talent Acquisition on wider recruitment process and strategies.
• Undertake and manage projects and new initiatives where identified including but not limited to employee engagement and recognition, leadership development, talent identification and development and organizational change.
• Informally mentor junior members of the People Team, helping to guide their development and leveraging their skills to ensure a pro-active, effective and efficient People Team experience.
  
  

Reporting lines and key stakeholders

This role reports to the UK Head of HR, based in London. 

You will work closely with all People Team and support the relevant stakeholders and leads across your dedicated business areas.

This role will be based predominantly at our Brewhouse Yard office, but you’ll also spend time at our other central London locations.

Requirements

• Advertising/Production agency experience is preferable
• Strong business acumen and ability to provide HR advice in a commercially sensitive and appropriate way.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills, with the ability to inspire confidence in the management and leadership team, and key stakeholders both within and outside of the People Team.
• Naturally collaborative in outlook; openly shares both information and credit.
• Confidence in navigating challenges and change with resilience, creativity and positivity
• Strong employee relations knowledge with practical experience of manage complex cases to resolution.
• A commercial and pragmatic outlook, coupled with the ability to communicate effectively and translate people initiatives into business language.
• Result and resolution focused with the ability to think laterally to find original solutions to potential challenges.
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion

Hogarth is committed to diversity and inclusion, through our ideas, our people, how we behave and conduct ourselves. Creating a truly inclusive culture at all levels of the organisation that encourages different points of view, making Hogarth not only a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone experiences connection, opportunity and a sense of belonging.

Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.

Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

Find out more at www.hogarth.com/culture

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Inclusion and Impact

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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