Senior Manager, People Operations - Sky Sports United Kingdom
Sky
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
People Operations – Department Overview
Most of Sky Sports’ 1100 employees and over 600 freelancers work in content creation and production which leads to a lot of travel as well as shift working 24/7 across a large range of technical and creative skills. The Senior Manager, Sky Sports People Operations has responsibility for creating consistency and fairness in our people operations. This role is responsible for operationalising the Sky Sports People Plan as well as supporting the Sky Sports Leadership team on driving cultural change and putting our people at the heart of our operations. An integral part of the role is to effectively influence members of the Sky Sports Leadership team to balance local requirements vs departmental wide consistency and fairness. Together with a small team this role is responsible for internal comms and engagement, our working environment and supporting our peoples development
Core Responsibilities:
- Working with the leadership team and people partnering to develop and deliver a consistent people operations framework that is appropriate for our ways of working including delivery of our Inclusion Action Plan, with a focus on Managers Development.
- Responsible for an inclusive, sustainable and retentive early careers programme within Sky Sports and working with the central Early Careers Team on Content wide programmes.
- Provide operational insight into existing structures and workflows to drive cohesive decision making across the leadership team.
- Responsible for a centralised internal comms & engagement plan with a focus on growing an inclusive culture and recognising our people.
- Ensuring that our ways of working in a production and shift based environment (for example rostering practices, overtime payments etc) are fair and where appropriate consistent across the department.
- Overseeing how we engage with our freelance contractor population in a responsible manner
- Updating local policies where required, provide departmental assistance to Sky wide initiatives and deployment of any new processes or software and ensure that audited processes are kept up to date.
- Responsible for workplace development and changes, (for example office moves /£4million revamp plan for 2023). Representing Sky Sports requirements within the Sky Campus, senior partners for Sky Spaces.
What you'll bring:
- Senior stakeholder management
- Ability to translate strategic goals into tangible actions and deliver against them
- Good understanding of operational production practices helpful
- Experience in either line-managing a team or supporting the management of a large team essential
- Excellent communication skills essential
- Internal comms experience desired but not essential
- Early careers experience desired but not essential
- Experience in creating ways of working guidance documents desirable.
- Good understanding of audit processes and policies of advantage
- Experience with D&I desirable
Closing date: 06/06/2023, 11:59pm
Sky Sports
We deliver the most innovative and best Sports content experience to our customers across all platforms. We promote continuous innovation, driving value for our customers and high-quality output. Everyone is passionate about sport and proud of the work that they undertake both on screen and behind the scenes.
The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your office base:
Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation!
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working!
And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.
Sky
careers.sky.com
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Dana Strong
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1989
