Strategic People Lead - Maternity Cover
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Who are we?
A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era. Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison, Engage, SocialChain and MTM. And we’re underpinned by leading marketing training practice, MiniMBA, as well as our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok.
We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.
Our mission
New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them.
That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity
Our values
We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across media, marketing, training and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values:
- Bold Curiosity.
We run at change and challenge convention because we love to push the boundaries of what the world thinks is possible. We champion discovery, go deep into our clients’ worlds and are always hungry to learn more about them, our specialisms and each other.
- Connected Clarity.
We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple.
- Positive Encouragement.
We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one other up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs.
- Constant Impact.
We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data-led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a commercially minded strategic People leader to step into a high impact maternity cover position on a part time basis (2-3 days per week, including a minimum of one day per week in the office), ensuring continuity, consistency and sustained performance impact across our people operating model.
This person will:
- Oversee and ensure consistent application of our competency framework across recruitment, performance and progression, working closely with department leaders.
- Help to shape and deliver our strategic People roadmap, maintaining pace and focus against agreed priorities.
- Monitor and report on the commercial impact of People initiatives, linking outcomes to revenue, margin, utilisation and productivity.
- Partner closely with the Brave Bison Performance & Commerce CEO and Group COO, ensuring organisational performance remains aligned with commercial objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic People Advisor – Braver Bison Performance & Commerce
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on team structures, succession planning, goal setting, and team performance.
- Facilitate regular sessions with leaders to align priorities, share data driven insights, and address challenges or capability gaps.
People strategy
- In collaboration with the Brave Bison Performance & Commerce CEO, Group COO and Head of People Operations, help to shape and oversee the implementation of initiatives within our People Strategy that support organisational goals and growth.
- Ensure People Strategy initiatives deliver measurable commercial outcomes.
Career development
- Maintain and optimise existing competency frameworks. Ensure frameworks remain aligned to recruitment, performance and progression.
- Collaborate with the wider People team to support ongoing refinement of the performance review process in line with business needs.
Training
- Work with department leaders to assess future skills needs within their teams and analyse current skills gaps to inform strategic workforce planning.
- Enable department leaders to effectively curate and populate learning pathways tailored to their teams’ needs.
- Oversee the delivery, and measurement of the T-Shaped Marketing Course.
- Provide strategic oversight for internal leadership and line management training initiatives, ensuring they strengthen people management capabilities and support future leadership needs.
- Measure and report on the commercial and cultural impact of learning initiatives.
Culture & well-being
- In collaboration with the wider People team, lead initiatives to embed the company’s vision, mission, and values into daily practices.
- In collaboration with the Talent Acquisition Specialist and the BB P&C People Partner, optimise onboarding, probation, and offboarding processes to deliver a consistent, high-quality employee experience.
What you’ll get
Our people make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package.
But not only that, we are the UK’s first carbon neutral agency (a status we have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact our work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of Greenhouse Gases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption.
Then there’s a whole host of benefits – from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package. Here’s a snapshot of just some of the benefits we think you might also like:
- Dynamic working:To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work
- Private medical insurance:To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.
- Income protection:We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.
- Calm Subscription:Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!
- 25 days annual leave:This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days
- Christmas closure:No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us!
- Birthdays off:One extra day to celebrate your big day
- Summer hours:Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
- Online coaching and mental health support:Unlimited via OpenUp
- Remote Working:Work abroad for up to one month a year.
- Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.
Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.