Overview
Are you looking to progress your career in HR? Or are you a current HR Business Partner looking for a new challenge?
An exciting opportunity is now available to join our UK HR team to provide a first-class, responsive and proactive generalist HR service to our business.
Reporting to the Head of People in the UK, you’ll be acting as the key HR contact for senior leadership, managers and employees, for your dedicated client group. Understanding the business, the people challenges and opportunities will be key to your success in this role as it will enable you to provide pragmatic solutions to meet business goals and needs. You’ll be working closely with managers to pre-empt operational requirements and proactively develop solutions for their various challenges.
As an HR People Partner, you’ll be working across a variety of different projects and no two days will be the same. In one morning, you could be supporting managers on ER issues, preparing reports for leadership meetings, in another developing clear strategies in supporting our global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ambitions.
Responsibilities
This role will suit you if you:
- You have strong project management skills
- You have proven experience influencing the people agenda
- You have sound knowledge of UK employment legislation and best practice
- Are able to deal with situations of conflict and stressful discussions sensitively and effectively
- Have the ability to coach senior leaders
- Have strong interpersonal, diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Build and maintain strong business relationships
- Pride yourself on your professional integrity
- Are confident in handling different types of personalities with professionalism and good humour!
- Ideally you will be CIPD qualified
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
This list is not exhaustive, and if you are passionate about HR and the work we do at Haymarket, then we would be keen to hear from you regardless of whether you meet all of the criteria below, as we offer development and coaching opportunities.
People Partner:
- Acts as an integral part of the business by building strong professional relationships with the Senior Leadership Team and line managers, advising them on all people-related activities, including resourcing, performance management, and change management.
- Influences and drives organisational change by developing clear strategies that link HR policies to business objectives.
- Work closely with the leadership team on all aspects of people operations, including systems support, performance management and handling of promotions.
- Monitor the quality of services delivered (i.e. timeliness, accuracy, efficiency and responsiveness) and take prompt, corrective action in any cases of dissatisfaction or issues with delivery
- Lead business change initiatives, i.e. TUPE, restructures, redundancies.
- Support development & implementation of people policies.
Recruitment & Retention:
- Partnering with the Recruitment Manager to develop, manage and provide advice on recruitment strategies and procedures to hiring managers for both internal and external recruitment.
- Ensuring that our recruitment practices are aligned with our diversity, equity and inclusion ambitions.
Employee Relations:
- Supports managers by providing comprehensive and consistent advice on employee relations issues.
- Provides information and advice on the interpretation of company policies in line with local legislation, including disciplinary, grievance and appeal issues.
- Proactively works with managers in improving performance management processes by developing managers’ competence and confidence in dealing with people issues.
- Promotes a culture of employee engagement and communication.
Other Responsibilities:
- Work on ad hoc projects as required.
- Keeps abreast of all legislative changes and identifies any potential impact on the internal policies, procedures and processes.
Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria
Your skills, experience and knowledge/ Minimum role criteria
The successful candidate will need to have the following:
- Previous relevant experience in a generalist role, understanding of a matrixed environment is beneficial.
- Sound knowledge of UK employment legislation and best practice.
- Subject matter knowledge of DEI trends and best practice.
- Experience of supporting the business with talent-mapping and succession planning.
- Proficiency in interpreting financial metrics and key performance indicators.
- Ability to build credibility and influence at all levels throughout the organisation.
We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria.
To be considered as part of this initiative, please ensure you indicate if you have a disability when applying for the post. If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at
[email protected].
Why work with us?
People are our greatest asset here at Haymarket Media Group. Haymarket is a media, information and data business, we use our expertise in media and information to inspire, inform and empower our clients, audiences and communities. We are a socially and environmentally responsible business. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.
Haymarket Media Group values its people and strives to shape a better future with remarkable content. From paid content and subscription services; to integrated advertising and content marketing packages. We deliver market-leading branded experiences that inspire great decisions. From data and digital information solutions to live events, awards and professional education services.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive training and career development programme
- 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
- Flexible working schedule (core hours from 10-3)
- Generous contributory pension scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Family friendly policies
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Season ticket loan
- Regular individual and team rewards and incentives for outstanding performance
More About Working For Haymarket
We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. We feel that nothing beats face-time with our colleagues and we’ve therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.
As a global business operating in diverse markets, Haymarket is inherently multicultural. Globally we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining talent who reflect the communities we serve. We equally recognise our broader responsibility to society as a whole. We will use our power and influence to drive diversity, equity and inclusion within our markets.
As such, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at
[email protected].
Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.
