People Business Partner
Job Description
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with nominated leaders and managers.
- Collaborating with the wider People team to continually review and evolve employment practice.
- Using knowledge of business areas to identify themes, trends, and suggest HR interventions.
- Working with line managers to create and sustain an employment experience.
- Providing trusted strategic and operational advice on HR matters.
- Experience, passion, and an analytical mindset.
- Ability to partner with People team colleagues and Senior Leaders.
- Using data and insights to challenge and ensure a great employee experience.
We are looking for a People Business Partner on a 12 month FTC, to join the People team in our London office.
Reporting to the Head of People Business Partnering, based in Lisbon, Portugal, this role will be responsible for providing highly pragmatic, commercially focused and Person-led HR business partnership to leaders and managers in the UK. This includes Commercial, Finance and Legal teams, Derby, and Guilford studios.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a global leader in digital games and entertainment with a mission of ‘unleashing the gamer in everyone’. We develop, publish and distribute over 60 games, which reach over 400 million game players each month across the world.
What will you be doing?
As you’d expect from a key People Business Partner role, this person will work collaboratively and creatively with stakeholders across the business to drive the recruitment, development, engagement, and progression of our people, helping our people thrive and contribute to our growth and success. This includes:
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with your nominated leaders and managers.
- Collaborating with the wider People team to continually review and evolve our employment practice to ensure that the employment experience lives up to our aspirations
- Using your knowledge of the business areas assigned to this role to identify themes, trends and potential issues early and to suggest HR interventions to address these.
- Working with line managers to create and sustain an employment experience that genuinely matches the rhetoric of the recruitment process and is consistent with the Employer Brand.
- Providing trusted strategic and operational advice to your assigned business areas on HR matters.
What are we looking for?
We’re looking for someone with experience, passion, and an analytical mindset, someone who’s excited to lead an amazing working experience for our people everywhere. While we already have fantastic initiatives and practices in place, this person will partner with People team colleagues and Senior Leaders to keep pushing us forward, using data and insights to challenge ourselves and make sure we’re truly living the great employee experience we promise.
This is an incredible opportunity: to shape and grow on strong foundations, in an environment that values both smart data and great instincts; to be part of a dynamic, fast-growing business that keeps you learning, stretching, and inspired; and to work alongside talented colleagues who share your drive to make great things happen.
About the Company
Operating in 12 countries, the company develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 20 studios.
Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, the company has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally.
To date, its studios and companies have generated more than 10 billion downloads, including the following games: 8 Ball Pool™, Subway Surfers™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™, Carrom Pool™, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals ™, Pure Sniper ™, Puzzle Page™, Head Ball 2™, Motorsport Manager™, Darts of Fury™, Ultimate Golf™, Mini Football ™, Triple Match 3D ™, Agar.io™, and PowerWash Simulator ™.
