Senior Manager, Business Partner - 12 Month Contract

12 Month Contract

This role will be Hybrid to our Birmingham or Southam location

We Are People Experience

Most companies call it HR. At Electronic Arts we made the deliberate decision to brand our organization People Experience (PE). It is not just a play on words, PE is a team of cultural stewards who carefully create programs and talent strategies that directly impacts our teams' experience and enables our People to achieve the most meaningful work of their careers.

The Opportunity Ahead:

Our Sr Manager, PE Business Partner manages the business partner relationship in support of the talent strategy, workforce plan and people experience roadmap working with the senior management for two strategic organizations within EA SPORTS; Catalyst and Central Tech. Catalyst is what we refer to as our ‘Heartbeat’ titles within EA SPORTS. It is comprised of National Hockey League (NHL), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Formula 1 (F1), and World Rally Championship (WRC). This role would be the main business partner for F1 and WRC, both based in the UK. The EA SPORTS Central Tech team is a function within EA SPORTS that supports all our SPORTS studios. This is comprised of Operations, Technology, and Development & Creative Services. This role would be the main business partner for the Development & Creative Services (DCS) organization, based out of the UK and Malaysia.

You will partner with, coach and advise the Leaders of these business units and their supporting leadership teams. You will be responsible for building on their leadership capability to support the strategy, develop their talent and achieve the business goals. You will report to the Director, Business Partner EA SPORTS.

What the Sr. Manager Business Partner does at EA:

• Talent Strategy: You will help drive a comprehensive talent strategy with executives to ensure successful execution of goals, aligned with Company Talent strategy.

• Change Management: You will coach executives and leaders to plan for change management, optimizing for the employee experience, and working through organizational design to create role clarity and orchestrate full circle review of change impact to ensure change acceptance.

• Talent and Workforce Planning solutions: You lead efforts to identify potential successors for important roles and leadership positions. Promote attraction, retention, and development of talent including meaningful assessment and implementation of compensation programs for your client groups.

• Culture and Employee Experience: Help establish and foster EA culture, improving programs, diagnostics, and related training and coaching, to develop EAs overall capability to foster a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun and equitable workplace. Is accountable for all ER-related issues in assigned client group(s). Work with managers, employees and appropriate others to respond to all employee relations issues in ways that foster a cohesive and enjoyable workplace.

• Performance and Rewards: You will create insightful approaches to employee rewards; assess market data to guide compensation decisions, and be creative about ways outside of compensation to provide meaningful reward and recognition. You will oversee the successful implementation of the life cycle of the performance and compensation process across all assigned client group(s), this includes being knowledgeable of team budgets and able to use funds during annual cycle. Navigate when to advocate out-of-guideline recommendations. Demonstrated ability, with compensation partner, to develop recommendations on executive compensation. Understand concepts of unvested equity and vesting timelines as it relates to compensation.

• Organizational Effectiveness: You will identify gaps hindering achievement of outcomes and ensure business is focused on solving issues. Guide increasingly complex plans to improve organization effectiveness. Work across Centers of Excellence (as applicable) to develop recommended solutions. Coach, train and foster management capability.

• Workforce Analytics and Technology: You will identify important metrics to assess and diagnose the health of the organization. Educate management on headcount planning and related metrics (e.g. span-of-control). Apply knowledge of HR metrics and use data from multiple tools (e.g. Team Health, Workday) to assess and influence / guide our decisions. Consult with management on workforce planning and headcount management for client group.

• You will guide important EA-wide People programs within your assigned client group(s) in partnership with the worldwide People Experience team and the Centers of Excellence (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Employee Relations, HR Operations, and Learning, Engagement & Performance)

Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in a relevant field plus 8 or more years of progressive success as a senior strategic HR business partner/manager. Implemented large-scale HR programs across a department.

• Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development, change leadership, and overall talent management.

• A business leader, who is equally a builder of PE solutions based on PE best practices, as well as, an astute business member who employs solutions that affect business performances

• Excellent change management skills - able to methodically work through complex problems, set priorities and build commitments.

• Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development, change leadership, and overall talent management.

• A business leader, who is equally a builder of HR solutions based on HR best practices, as well as an astute business member who employs solutions that affect performance.

• Excellent change management skills - systemic thinker, able to organize work into plans, and achieve commitments.

• Can balance compassion and toughness in coaching others.

• Experience navigating across the HR organization - with peers, upwards, and with center of expertise partners.

• Experience with local employment law, coupled with the ability to gain a high-level understanding of territorial employment customs and practices working with EA's worldwide HR team.

• Have experience with creating healthy organizations, driving transformation and helping culture be a competitive advantage.