Senior Manager, Human Resources
Warner Bros. Entertainment Group
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WARNER BROS. Entertainment UK Ltd
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Senior Manager, Human Resources – 1 year fixed term contract.
Department Name: Corporate Human Resources, UK & Ireland
Reports to: VP, Human Resources, UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal
Directly Supervises: HR Advisor and 2 x HR Assistants
Primary Purpose of the Job:
The UK HR team provides HR provides commercially focused solutions on people issues to all of our Warner Bros. filmed entertainment businesses for the UK and Ireland (approx. 500 employees) as well as our two Games companies - TT Games (approx. 400 employees) and Rocksteady (approx. 100 employees)- and our TV Production company Shed Media (approx. 200 employees). Our businesses are diverse ranging from the sales, marketing and distribution of Film, DVD and TV to local and international TV production, digital distribution and Games markets.
Working closely with the VP Human Resources, the Senior Manager HR is responsible for partnering with senior management across our diverse range of businesses (excluding acquired companies), providing generalist HR support and advice.
The Senior Manager HR will supervise the HR Advisor and HR Assistants, who will provide support on a wide range of HR issues.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develops and maintains a solid understanding of the various businesses to be able to provide commercially-focused guidance to senior managers on all HR general matters including employee relations, performance management, culture, policy development, compliance, workforce planning and organization.
• Advises and coaches line managers through major employee relation issues such as formal or informal performance management, persistent or long term absence, flexible working arrangements, maternity and any other leaves, grievances, etc.
• Advises senior managers on re-structuring initiatives and/or redundancy matters; ensures legislative compliance and industry best practice; prepares the businesses for and leads employee consultation meetings.
• Oversees and develops the HR Advisor and the HR Assistants to ensure they grow in their own jobs as well understand their colleagues' roles so that they can act as temp back up for one another in case of absence.
• Monitors the correct application of, and guides line managers to ensure they correctly enforce HR policies/processes and comply with local legislation across the company.
• Either directly or leveraging the existing Compensation & Benefits, Recruitment as well as Learning & Development resources, drives new HR generalist initiatives and provides advice on performance appraisals/management, organisational design, change management, company culture, on-boarding, team or individual development, headcount approvals, etc.
• Designs and (with the support of the HR Advisor) sets up the tools and processes to produce regular HR metrics – attrition, absence, personnel costs, recruitment or training, and monitors trends in order to advise and guide line managers and senior management to manage any detected issues.
• Keeps abreast of general HR trends, with particular emphasis on own industry and legislative area to ensure HR procedures and policies are created, updated and communicated effectively to all employees.
• Ensures accurate HR corporate data and documentation–org charts, promotions, changes in reporting lines, starters/ leavers, contracts, offer letters, letters changing terms of employment, visas and working permits, etc- are produced, tracked, maintained and communicated to Home Office or Payroll as well as employees are correctly and promptly informed of any relevant changes in regards to their pay.
• Working with the VP HR guides senior management through ad hoc or regular salary and benefit review processes (i.e. Total Rewards salary and bonus process)
• Participates in and takes ownership for a range of HR projects
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Education and Work Experience:
• Educated to degree level with full CIPD postgraduate qualification;
• Experienced and confident in handling employee relations
• Proven experience in advising and handling organizational restructures, redundancy and ideally with some exposure to TUPE transfers and outsourcing initiatives
• HR generalist with demonstrable experience of providing commercially focused guidance on a diverse range of employee relations matters including conducting disciplinary and capability hearings
Skills and Abilities:
• Able to thrive in a high volume, fast pace, demanding environment
• Able to develop and maintain strong working relationships with key business stakeholders
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Confident presenter with excellent presentation and training skills
• Computer literate – Confident and experienced in HR databases (Peoplesoft or SAP preferred) and with full working knowledge of Microsoft Office to an intermediate level, particularly Excel.
• Numerical skills and analytical with the ability to analyse data and convert into concise reports;
• Meticulous attention to detail including proofing;
• Ability to take initiative using own discretion and skills and work with limited supervision but contributes effectively to the wider HR team
• Excellent organisational and follow up skills; ability to prioritise and excellent time management essential;
• Professional, Diplomatic, Confident with good social skills to be able deal with all levels of staff in organisations with diverse cultures and experience of HR;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; confident communicating at all levels within the organisation;
• Patient, calm and unflappable nature and flexibility in approach to workload;
• Must be discreet, diplomatic and treat information within the department as highly confidential