HR Manager

Universally Speaking is a world-class partner to the games industry, trusted to deliver the highest quality services with passion, expertise and agility.

Key Accountabilities

• Working with the key business stakeholders, understand the business goals and challenges and translate these into effective people strategy and plans.
• Recruit, manage, motivate and develop direct reports to ensure that they achieve their potential and that their performance contributes to the achievement of business objectives.
• Manage our Talent Acquisition Team to 'Raise the Bar' on Talent through improved workforce planning, attraction and assessment including social media strategy, ATS optimisation, EVP and benchmarking data.
• Work with line managers on Talent Reviews, building succession, talent pipelines internally and externally creating career pathways through relevant development interventions and support.
• Build leadership capability within the organisation.
• Support and drive our Wellbeing, Inclusion and Diversity agenda across the business.
• Provide effective feedback, coaching and guidance to managers across all aspects of people management to include building a high performance inclusive culture, talent acquisition, absence management, retention, engagement, employee relations, performance management and employee development.
• Diagnose organisational issues and design solutions to support change and develop highly effective teams.
• Manage budget and build business cases for investment in key people initiatives.
• Work with colleagues to leverage expertise and ensure the effective roll-out of group-wide initiatives.
• Manage and ensure delivery of the HR dashboards, metrics and insights. Annual, Quarterly, monthly and adhoc reporting.
• Work as a member of the HR Management team and role model the Universally Speaking Values and Behaviours.

Measures of performance:

• Employee Engagement scores improve year on year
• People metrics inform and drive Exec and Manager decision making
• All contracts, policies and procedures are compliant and applied
• Direct Reports have objectives that are aligned to the plan
• Strategic rolling 12 months’ work plan in place and delivered
• All key people metrics improve
• Training, learning and development needs are identified and have a plan in place to deliver these
• Accurate talent and succession plans in place
• Key project deliverable and benefits are realised within agreed timescales
• People capabilities meet business plan requirements

Our Purpose: To serve our partners by enhancing the experience of gamers across the world through our passionate and expert team

Our Values: Quality, Passion, Agility, Customer Focus, Teamwork

Requirements

• Ability to work at pace and to tight deadlines
• Demonstrable experience of acting as a Business Partner to Senior Leadership Team and key functional leaders
• Track record of building and developing robust internal relationships with other stakeholders across the company
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of working effectively during rapid growth/change, preferably with a high-growth games, creative digital or technology provider
• Proven generalist HR and Talent Acquisition experience within a fast pace, complex multisite environment over at least 5 years
• Proven experience in relationship building with senior stakeholders and coordinating different agendas
• Pragmatic, well organised, pro-active and commercially astute
• Strong experience in Employment Law
• Job Evaluation and experience in psychometrics
• Capable of coaching and developing line managers, direct reports and HR colleagues on various topics
• Capable of working and influencing internationally and inter-culturally
• Clear ability to identify and assess individual talent and make development decisions
• Proven experience in driving change and enhancements within a business
• Analytical, able to understand and present key numbers and KPI’s
• Attention to detail
• IT skills: Advanced level Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Familiarity with

Desirable requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in either business management or Human Resources and preference for post-graduate qualifications
• Familiarity with HR database and Applicant Tracking systems