People Business Partner needed to join our Satalia division on a permanent basis This role is largely remote based with requirement to travel to Watford and/or London as required.
What you'll be doing:
- Contribute to and drive the overall People team strategy as a strategic partner to your assigned business area(s).
- Be a sparring partner for the senior leader of your business areas to build relationships and challenge the status quo with a seat at the leadership table
- Develop a deep knowledge of business strategies, priorities and challenges to raise creditability of the People team and ensure that your business areas are right sized and structured to deliver
- Coach management team to improve leadership capability and drive improved employee engagement
- Use People metrics to support managers in defining, developing, and executing people plans, in collaboration with the Talent, L&D and Reward teams
- Ownership of the Performance enablement process in your area to influence business managers on decision making on people, promotions, and recruitment
- Lead on complex employee relations matters as necessary (including Redundancy and TUPE) including working with and mentoring the People officer on more simplistic cases
- Communicate key messages through Business area, attending team meetings and being a visible partner
- Lead or support UK CPO to deliver on People team and wider EMEA or Business change projects. Current projects include Career Pathways and Competency frameworks, Leadership Development, IE&D strategy and Wellbeing initiatives.
What we want from you:
- Strong experience as generalist HR Business Partner, ideally within a similar industry
- Comfortable working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment, working at an operational and strategic level.
- Skilled and experienced in organisational development and change, performance management, reward and learning and development.
- CIPD qualified and a passion for continuous professional development
- Organized with the ability to manage and prioritize a challenging and busy workload
- Good knowledge of employment law and commercial in your approach
- Excellent people management and influential skills
- Analytical and goal oriented
- Demonstrable experience with HR metrics
- Self-starter with a drive to make things happen at pace
- Strong emotional intelligence, listening, influencing and coaching skills
- A high level of resilience
If you know some of this, even better:
- Prior experience working in a technology agency/consultancy
What we can offer you:
- Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI technology
- A chance to contribute to groundbreaking commerce AI solutions
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
We offer a great benefits package including hybrid working that works for everyone, a generous discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.
What we do: At Wunderman Thompson we inspire growth for ambitious brands. Within our commerce and technology division, that means inspiring people across the globe to shop online through seamless digital experiences.?
Satalia, a Wunderman Thompson Commerce and Technology Company, is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and challenging projects, allowing you to flex your technical skills whilst working with a tight knit team of high performing colleagues.
How we do it: Led by our founder (who is also WPP's Chief AI Officer), Satalia's ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future. Today this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust.
We are investing massively in developing next generation generative AI tools, including workstreams covering text, image, video, audio, and research. We are building large scale, enterprise grade solutions and serving these innovations to our clients and WPP agency partners.?
At Wunderman Thompson Commerce and Technology:
Our commerce and technology division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world's leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms.?
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co.
What makes us different? We are part of Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology. Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, we're unique in our ability to connect world-class strategic thinking and creative insight, with deep executional capability across technology and operations. We're part of the WPP Group, which gives us the talent, infrastructure, and support of one of the largest agency networks in the world.
If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
At Wunderman Thompson, a WPP company, we are committed to actively building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued and heard, and is treated with dignity and respect. As leaders and creative partners across industries, it is our responsibility to cultivate an environment reflective of our greatest asset; our people. We believe that this commitment inspires growth and delivers equitable outcomes for everyone as well as the clients and communities we serve.