People Partner FTC 12 Months

About the Role:

Global Investment at Omnicom Media Group

The Global Investment team is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver commitments to our well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply investment best practice across the network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and investment guidance.   

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced and collaborative People Partner who is passionate about delivering a quality service in fast paced media agency environment. Working three days a week in the office to support our departments and teams to provide an end-to-end people service and outstanding employee experience. 

As champions of the employee experience and transformation, we empower growth, celebrate excellence, and ignite success. Focused on career growth, internal mobility, learning, and engagement, we drive change and set high goals. The people team goal is to join together to foster an environment where everyone thrives through innovative and solutions-oriented approaches.

Together, we believe we’ll achieve greatness!

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the CEO, you will be a key member of the wider leadership and management teams. You will be responsible for providing a pro-active partner service to ensure that the people agenda supports our business and people objectives. You will deliver value added services, aligned to our people plans and will support the departments and teams in the development and delivery of people plans and initiatives with an emphasis on building great team management skills.

Key responsibilities

• Provide a wide-ranging HR Business Partnering service to management, ensuring that all managers have the necessary tools and capability to professionally manage themselves and their people
• Provide day-to-day leadership to address the people challenges for the business department or area
• Use key people analytics to inform decisions and make recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Management, deployment and completion of HR projects within the business
• Build management capability through coaching and challenging on people management and decisions. Includes delivering regular people workshops
• Create solutions to people issues that enable team leads to resolve people challenges fairly, swiftly and legally
• Use data and metrics to identify potential issues and support decision-making that really increases employee engagement
• Build and maintain visible and meaningful working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and partners
• Lead and advise on HR legal and employee relations (inc TUPE) matters to ensure consistency, legal compliance, and risk mitigation, particularly on complex matters ensuring you mitigate any potential risks
• Plan and implement HR initiatives and projects aligned to HR plans, process and business-driven initiatives
• Support the marketing and engagement in Learning and Development activities. Using data to provide SLT feedback and analysis on training courses.
• Help champion DEIB initiatives and activities to reach targets
• Manage, coach and mentor the team modelling our agency values and behaviours

Attributes, skills and behaviours

• You will be an experienced generalist HR Business Partner, ideally, supported by your CIPD level 7
• A proven background in adding value and improving the employee experience and best practice demonstrating great interpersonal skills and gravitas particularly in people management and development
• High quality communication and stakeholder management capabilities with the ability to deliver HR servicing across two office locations will be essential for success in this role.
• Able to produce and present PPT presentations, intermediate level Excel skills and used to generating reports from our HRIS (Successfactors) and familiar with sharepoint
• The ability to challenge the status quo where we can make improvements
• Experience of leading through change and the ability to implement and help drive transformation would be advantageous
• Work in a timely, solution-oriented, and service-oriented manner in a fast paced environment
• Approachable and confident working with all levels of the agency

Flexible Working

We are committed to supporting and helping the Global Investment have a great work/life balance and a positive attitude to well-being. As part of this we have a flexible and hybrid working model as a core part of how we operate.

We believe flexible & hybrid working can increases individual motivation, improves performance and productivity, and reduces stress as well as helping manage wellbeing generally. We will work with you to implement the best flexible working solution for you without compromising team performance and client delivery.

Employee Benefits

We offer pension contributions, life insurance, health insurance, a generous holiday entitlement and many other employee benefits for all. We have an enhanced maternity leave, shared parental leave, paternity leave pay policy.

Diversity

At Global Investment, we are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity & inclusion of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.

We welcome remarkable people from a broad range of backgrounds who bring their diverse attitudes, opinions, and beliefs into a culture where you are treated with respect and can be comfortable at work just being you. Embracing our differences results in a stimulating and inspiring environment will lead to everyone viewing the world, our work and each other with fresh eyes.

We are keen to encourage applicants from people from all walks of life and we want you to be at your best throughout the recruitment process, please discuss any specific adjustments with a member of the Global Investment People team.

About the Agency:

Omnicom Media Group Europe (OMG EMEA) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle.

The Global Investment team at OMG EMEA is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver media buying commitments to our well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply investment best practice across our global network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and investment guidance.

The team play a vital role quantifying and tracking media buying performance across all Omnicom Media Group markets for global clients. We strive to define new ways of measuring media value to ensure we continue to lead the industry in this area.