HR Advisor – 12m FTC

Company description

OVERVIEW

Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals.. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.

HELPING OUR CLIENTS UNLOCK GROWTH IN THE PLATFORM WORLD

Our clients compete in the platform world, a horizontal marketplace between creators and consumers, between speakers and listeners, between buyers and sellers. To thrive in the platform world, companies must continue to innovate their products and business models. Four imperatives (1. Real Identity, 2. Dynamic, Diverse and Disruptive Creativity 3., Smart Media and 4. Direct Relationships) via our suite of world-class agencies, are necessary for modern brands to win in the platform world. At Publicis Groupe, we’ve invested in capabilities across these four imperatives our clients need to unlock growth. As the only one who can architect, build and orchestrate end to end solutions, not only do we have a proven record of building bespoke models for clients and leading expertise across all major industry categories, we are able to offer our talents more opportunities to grow and benefit from a richer learning experience. We call this Power of One. Powered by a 100,000-strong network via Marcel, our AI-based platform, we are also able to provide our clients and talents instant access to resource, knowledge for any need, any time, in any market.

THE SPIRIT OF VIVA LA DIFFERENCE

Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.

Overview

As a Talent Advisor at Publicis Media you’ll work closely with the Performics and Spark Foundry Talent Team to provide HR support and guidance to the relevant departments and management teams. Responsibilities will vary according to the needs of the business but include dealing with Employee Relations issues and helping to deliver learning and engagement initiatives.

We are looking for a bright, articulate and motivated person to join the Publicis Media UK Talent team. Someone with the confidence to run their own meetings with stakeholders across the business and trust their judgement on the relevant HR process to follow as well as proactive and keen to support the delivery of effective people initiatives.

Responsibilities

· Be a trusted advisor to the business, advising and coaching managers on best practice people management to build overall capability.

· Support the Senior Talent Partner in delivering the talent plans for respective stakeholder groups and contribute to talent initiatives and change projects, working collaboratively with the team to deliver to deadlines.

· Manage and track ER issues such as disciplinary, grievance, sickness and performance. Provide advice, training and upskilling to managers, ensuring legislation is followed and liaising with the team where necessary on trends, difficult cases etc. Support the Senior Talent Partner with organisational restructures and any TUPE processes, redundancies.

· Build effective relationships with employees and managers across the organisation, attending regular department/team/stakeholder meetings to stay up to date with what’s happening in the business and wider industry.

· Ensure a great employee experience for new starters and leavers. Run inductions, ensure probation objectives are being set and reviewed, and conduct effective entry/exit interviews, feeding back any concerns to the Senior Talent Partner and proposing changes to improve the employee experience.

· Ensure our recruitment, early careers and promotion processes run smoothly, including but not limited to reviewing and submitting hire request forms, salary benchmarking, submitting promotions, ensuring data is updated in our HR systems and ensuring the successful roll out of our internship and apprenticeships programmes.

· Champion learning and development across stakeholder groups; supporting managers with conversations around growth and development, managing ad hoc training requests with stakeholders, supporting with planning training events and ensuring attendance is monitored.

· Ensure integrity of our employee data, completing regular reviews and audits to maintain accuracy.

· Support in the gathering of data for reporting purposes e.g. salary reviews, talent mapping, general HR reporting on absence, diversity and turnover. Be comfortable in analysing data, identifying trends and recommending solutions.

· Participate in engagement and retention initiatives, help embed change and positively impact our culture. Assist in reviewing engagement data to suggest better ways of working.

· Work closely with Talent Operations to maintain and update policies and processes when required and as per legislation.

Qualifications

· CIPD Qualified or similar qualification or working towards.

· Excellent employment law knowledge and proven experience managing complex employee relations cases independently.

· Experience in working effectively in a changing and fast-paced environment with a flexible approach. Previous experience in a similar industry preferred but not essential.

· Demonstrated commitment to continuous personal and professional development

· Experience in gathering and analysing employee data, providing insight and recommendations.

· Immediate to advance experience in Excel and PowerPoint.

· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build effective, strong stakeholder relationships.

· Above all you will have a deep-rooted sense of fun! We want you to do your best work being your best self and passionate about creating a fun and meaningful place to work for you and the client groups you support.

Additional information

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page (https://www.publicisgroupeuk.com/careers/) which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).