Job Description

Overview:
The opportunity
This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced People Partner or Head of People to join Haymarket's forward-thinking and proactive People team
The Business
Haymarket is a successful international specialist media company. We have over 60 market-leading brands in the consumer and B2B markets across the UK, US, Asia, India and Germany, connecting people and communities across digital, print, festivals, awards, conferences, and exhibitions. Responsibilities:
The role:

• Strategic HR Leadership: Working with our Director, People and Communications to develop and implement a people strategy that aligns with Haymarket's business objectives. This includes workforce planning, talent management, and ensuring compliance with employment law.

• Employee Experience and Culture: Championing a positive and inclusive company culture. You will be responsible for enhancing employee engagement, overseeing our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and managing employee relations to create a supportive and motivating workplace.

• Organisational Effectiveness: Driving performance and efficiency across Haymarket. This involves designing and managing our performance review process, developing competitive compensation and benefits programs, and creating learning and development opportunities that help our employees grow and succeed.

• People Partnering:

• Building strong relationships with senior leadership and line managers, advising on resourcing, performance management, and change management.
• Driving organisational change by linking HR policies to business objectives. Support all aspects of people operations, including systems, performance management, and promotions.
• Monitoring service quality and lead business change initiatives (e.g., TUPE, restructures, redundancies).
• Support policy development and implementation

• Recruitment & Retention: Partnering with our Recruitment Manager on recruitment strategies and procedures for internal and external hiring, ensuring alignment with DEI ambitions.

• Employee Relations:

• Providing comprehensive and consistent advice on ER issues, including company policy interpretation (e.g., disciplinary, grievance, appeal).
• Proactively improving performance management processes by developing manager competence and confidence.
• Promoting employee engagement and communication.

• Team leadership: Managing and developing the People team

Other Responsibilities: Undertaking ad hoc project work and staying updated on legislative changes to identify impacts on internal policies. Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria:
Person Specification:
The successful candidate will need to have the following:
Essential

• Proven experience in a senior HR role, ideally in a matrixed environment
• Sound knowledge of UK employment legislation and best practice
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to translate business needs into effective HR initiatives
• Proficiency in interpreting financial metrics and key performance indicators
• Ability to coach senior leaders and drive the people agenda
• Subject matter knowledge of DEI trends and best practice
• Ability to handle conflict and stressful discussions sensitively and effectively.
• Ability to coach senior leaders and drive the people agenda
• Experience with talent-mapping and succession planning
• Strong business writing, presentation, and delivery skills
• Excellent interpersonal, diplomacy, and negotiation skills
• Ability to build credibility and influence at all organisational levels
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to build and maintain strong business relationships
• Decisive, able to work under demanding conditions and pressure
• Highly flexible with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong organisational skills
• Confident in handling diverse personalities with professionalism and good humour
• Pragmatic and able to achieve business needs while managing policy and legislative constraints

Desirable

• CIPD qualified.

We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria.
To be considered as part of this initiative, please ensure you indicate if you have a disability when applying for the post. If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@haymarket.com.
Why work with us?
Haymarket Media Group values its people and strives to shape a better future with remarkable content. From paid content and subscription services; to integrated advertising and content marketing packages. We deliver market-leading branded experiences that inspire great decisions. From data and digital information solutions to live events, awards and professional education services.
Our benefits include:
25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our 'Work from Anywhere' days
Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments
Generous contributory pension scheme
Health Cash Plans: With our health cash plans, you can access a range of healthcare benefits, including coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more
More about working for Haymarket
Putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of our business we have aligned our current sustainability goals with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.
We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. Nothing beats face-time with our colleagues to promote creativity and collaboration, we've therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.
Haymarket is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@haymarket.com.
Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.

Skills Required