Senior People Partner (10 Month Mat Cover)

Hybrid

Agency : Havas Media Group

Job Description Summary : The Senior HR Business Partner is responsible for the delivery of focused HR solutions and advice that support their business areas in coordination with HR centers of excellence (Compensation & Benefits, Talent, HRIS) and global HR when required.

Job Description :

People Business Partner (10 month maternity cover)

Roles and Responsibilities

1. You are accountable for people processes and approaches across Havas helia, Havas London, Havas Red and One Green Bean agencies. This means having a core knowledge of the wide range of people processes across the whole employee lifecycle, and understanding how they work together and impact each other, as well as ensuring they are carried out to the highest standard.
2. Develop a detailed understanding of your client groups, knowing how they do things as per the people processes above, as well as commercially and structurally.
3. Develop an understanding of the culture of the agency/dept; what people think, what they want.
4. Proactivity when it comes to rolling out communications, initiatives, processes in own client groups.
5. Preparation- looking ahead and planning work with Leadership and People Director to ensure that we are driving and delivering the right initiatives.
6. Demonstrate own ideas and solutions to challenges.
7. Accountability for work completed by Advisor/Coordinator (i.e. making sure robust checking, by you, is in place for contracts, payroll etc).

Partnering

1. Partner with relevant BU or Agency leaders, providing strategic people insight to planning, structures etc.
2. Develop people plan for own areas.
3. Actively participate in department/agency meetings where appropriate.
4. Data driven in your approach- ensure the people data for your areas is accurate and up to date (via the monthly report, dashboards etc). Use the available data to ensure you have an understanding of the “now” and to inform decision making.
5. Challenge, question and interrogate business leads on people decisions (e.g. ER, pay, promotions, structure, recruitment, training etc).
6. Demonstrate a commercial outlook, showing that you understand your client group’s businesses; challenges, priorities, direction etc, how they fit within the wider group whilst also having knowledge of the market in which we operate.
7. Anticipate challenges and build solutions to those into your business partnering activity.
8. Help to effectively manage change in a people-centred way that aligns with the agency culture and objectives.
9. Project management- plan and deliver projects end to end, managing risk, resources and interdependencies to deliver outcomes.

Communication

1. Manage communication between People Director, direct and wider team to ensure understanding, delivery and follow up.
2. As above with stakeholder group- demonstrating progress with initiatives and projects and flagging if there are challenges.
3. Work closely with the other BP’s to find out what is happening in their areas, how they are approaching rolling out Village initiatives to strive for a consistent employee experience and help problem solve.

ER

1. Manage all ER cases across your client groups, delegating to Advisor where appropriate and keeping People Director informed.
2. Ensure cases are tracked/fed into the wider team to ensure consistency in approach and trends/issues are spotted and solutions and steps are taken to proactively reduce ER cases.
3. Keep up to date with current and future legislation and regulation and demonstrate how to assess the impact and risk.

Comp and bens

1. Manage and coordinate key activity including the bonus and salary review processes. This would include working with the finance and commercial team as well as our own comp team. The expectation is that this is driven by BP (in terms of planning the activity, meeting with stakeholders, challenging the proposals, checking and signing off the data etc).
2. Manage pay band mapping process.
3. Work towards harmonisation of benefits across Village.

Recruitment

1. Manage and control the recruitment process with the business, from vacancy through to hire/onboarding.
2. Following a resignation, work with the line manager to plan for replacement, challenging where appropriate.
3. Manage sign off process appropriate to agency.
4. Understand and contribute to decisions about structure.
5. Proactively manage the relationship with TA Partner.
6. Flag challenges and suggest solutions/improvements.

Talent development

1. Work with agency leads to establish effective performance management to ensure that all our people receive a meaningful performance review, as per the local and global expectations, and that robust development plans are in place for all employees.
2. Use performance management data to drive improvements.
3. Work with agency leads to determine current and future capability needs and partner with TD team to deliver those.
4. Integrate wellbeing into our culture and strategy.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

1. Work with the DEI partners and agency leaders to build equality, diversity and inclusion approaches that positively impact your agency’s culture and performance.

Village People role

1. Contribute to the wider people team community in projects, working groups, meetings etc.
2. Build collaborative relationships with the specialist teams.
3. Mentor and coach the junior members of the team.

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Contract Type : Temporary

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.