Junior HR BP London, England
Job description
Job title: Junior HR Business Partner
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London
Department: HR
Competitive Salary
Your role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for anyone looking for their first step into HR business partnering. We are looking for an aspiring Junior HR Business Partner to join the People team.
Your team:
You will be supporting the HR Director of The Sun, Broadcasting & CFO and HRBPs, working closely with the whole People team and business managers.
Day to day you will:
- Working alongside the HRBPs, partner with clients to design organisational structure including efficiency reviews and strategic support in developing the people strategy
- Oversee the implementation of the year end compensation planning process while ensuring a strong link to performance
- Reinforce policies and practices – promptly escalate and assist to resolve issues
- Employee relations case management – support HR business partners and work with the wider HR team on process and decisions relating to complex cases with financial or legal risks, e.g. redundancies, grievances, disciplinary actions
- Be an HR key contact for your client group
- Work with your HRBPs to use HR data to make strategic recommendations with your client group
- Working with the business/Finance/HRBPs, manage and oversee the process surrounding all financial and compensation business requirements
- Overseeing the employee lifecycle from start to finish and adapting to the requirements for the different business units you’ll be supporting
- Contribute to delivery of the People team strategy
- Picking up ad hoc duties as and when required to ensure the success of the People team.
What we’re looking for from you:
- Someone who is looking for the next step in their career and feels that they have what it takes to support the current HR Business Partners to help drive HR initiatives and projects
- You will have good proven problem-solving skills
- You will have assisted a People team in either an advisor or support role
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to talk to people at all levels and offer advice in line with the company values
- Sound knowledge of UK employment law
- Proactive and enthusiastic approach to all things people!
We are: News UK and Ireland Ltd. is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations including talkSPORT, VirginRadio, talkRADIO and Times Radio.
Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work 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. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. 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 9 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship, Women’s Steering Group and Disability network.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
What's in it for you?
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
- 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.
Equal opportunities:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.
