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Overall Purpose of the Role

This role provides HR business partnering support to client groups of The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) UK, supporting the business to deliver against their TWDC business objectives. It forms part of the UK HR leadership team driving and enabling the delivery of the UK HR people strategy.

A key focus of the role is managing a professional, effective and proactive relationship with the business by understanding their key business drivers and priorities and providing an effective interface with the Centres of Excellence to help the achievement of these.

As a member of the HR Business Partner team, it is important that key learnings are shared within the team to ensure the team is effective and efficient.

Areas of Responsibility

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  In partnership with your client groups and business partnering team proactively drive the development and delivery of the people agenda, ensuring it aligned with the TWDC HR strategy and the TWDC business strategy

• Be an active member of your client groups leadership team, proactively driving the HR agenda and provide support on business initiatives

• A key focus of the role is to have a good understanding of how the business operates, the key business challenges, drivers, financials as well as staying current on current industry trends, technology advances etc. Participate in and influence of the strategy planning process, the Annual Operating Planning process (AOP) as well as local business planning

• Pro-actively develop strong working relationships with key business and HR stakeholders, which enable a solution-orientated approach to delivering HR initiatives

• Apply commercial thinking and an understanding of the business and HR to provide pragmatic and informed HR solutions and ideas which meet both the business needs and fit with the HR agenda

• Pro-actively engage with the Centres of Excellent to obtain specialist advice and facilitate value add solutions to your client groups. The key Centres of Excellence are:

• Employee Relations

• Global HR Operations

• Learning and Development

• Compensation & Benefits

• Talent Acquisition

• HR Information Systems

• Pro-actively manage annual HR processes with the business and Centres of Excellence, for example:

• Merit: Support the merit planning process by effectively working in partnership the UK and EMEA Compensation and Benefits teams. Partner with your client group to ensure the merit and bonus process is effectively managed and delivers against the business objectives

• Talent Planning: Effectively manage the Talent Planning process with your client group, ensuring that talent is proactively managed throughout the year

• Performance Management: Support your client group in proactively managing the annual performance management process and throughout the year

• Organisational Change: Support the business with changes to the structure, roles and org design as required

• In partnership with Finance, effectively manage your client groups’ headcount and partner with the recruitment team to ensure recruitment is effectively managed with your client group.

• As a member of the HR Manager team it is important that key learnings are shared within the team to ensure the team is effective and efficient. Pro-actively share knowledge/insights/external learnings etc to ensure the team is kept up to date and a culture of feedback that enables ongoing improvement is developed

• Work with and develop the HR Advisors in the wider team

• Active member of the HR community, building relationships across the HR team and supporting HR initiatives and projects as required