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HR Business Partner

Location:

London

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Job Description

Please note: Part time Job Share - 3 days per week (office based). The role is FTC up to 12 months to cover maternity leave. The role is London based but will also entail travel to Peterborough as required.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Our HR Team: A team that puts people at the core of everything we do; aligning business decisions to people initiatives. We are committed to finding and developing the best talent and are continuously looking for opportunities to innovate.

The role: As HR Business Partner, you will report to a People Director and join a team of highly motivated and hardworking individuals, partnering The Finance, Legal and Corporate Affairs teams that are based in our London Bridge and Peterborough offices. As a highly trusted and credible BP, you will work closely with the senior leaders of the Finance and Corporate teams to deliver the outcomes of our people plan by coaching and advising managers across a range of HR activities including employee relations, change management, performance management and engagement.

Day to day you will:

• Build lasting partnerships with key partners to enable the delivery of the people plan

• Coach and advise managers on a range of complex and challenging people matters

• Plan, coordinate and implement restructures and change management projects

• Educate and guide managers on performance management, including leading appraisal discussions, feedback and coaching, and motivating teams for success

• Support the execution of org design and transformation initiatives as we progress our agenda to be a digital first business

What we’re looking at from you:

• You are passionate about HR and are an advocate of what can be achieved when the business and HR partner to build long lasting programmes that have impact

• You adapt quickly to change and thrive in an environment where ambiguity is a constant

• You are a commercial and pragmatic partner to the business and have worked in different and challenging environments

• Possess a generalist HR background covering but not limited to employee relations, performance management and coaching

• CIPD qualified would be advantageous, although it's more important that you have worked in this role rather than have the qualification

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 13 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year; (pro-rated)

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.