Job Description

Company Description

Informa Festivals marks an exciting new chapter in B2B events, bringing some of the world's most influential creative, technology, and business festivals together. We're combining prestigious events like Cannes Lions, Black Hat, Money20/20, GDC, and London Tech Week with cutting-edge marketing intelligence platforms and advisory services to deliver unmissable experiences and insights.


Our festival-led approach reimagines traditional B2B events, creating powerful, immersive experiences that drive innovation and industry advancement. Building on decades of expertise and powered by Informa's international reach, we're shaping the next generation of business festivals.

This role is based 3 days a week in our Victoria office.

As the HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will serve as a strategic expert, partnering with leaders to address people and organisational challenges while proactively identifying HR opportunities to help meet business goals.


You will work across the FinTech and Tech Weeks verticals, as well as supporting the Informa Festivals Central teams such as Video Content, Digital Marketing, Legal, Finance and Technology.


Working closely with the Head of HR, the HR community and functional leaders, you'll play a key role in guiding the implementation of our people strategy. You will be instrumental in driving critical programs and initiatives that shape our organization, including target operating model implementation, performance and talent management, succession planning, reward and recognition, employee engagement, organizational development, and change management.


As an HRBP, you'll provide advice and support on HR best practices and policy to colleagues and managers and manage complex employee relations issues. Collaboration will be essential, as you work alongside HR Shared Services and other HR specialists, such as Reward, Learning, and Talent Acquisition, to bring a unified HR approach to the business as part of a global team.


In your role as HRBP, you will assume the following key responsibilities, along with any additional reasonable duties as required:

Partnering leaders - Build strategic partnerships with leaders and managers, driving development and alignment of HR consultancy services and strategic projects and programmes. Be authentic and willing to challenge leaders thinking. Range of work - Act as a trusted advisor on all strategic people and organisation related topics, with a strong focus on talent management, performance management, organisation effectiveness and optimisation, change management, reward and recognition and ER. Forward thinking - Act as a change agent, championing new people initiatives. Employee relations - Provide guidance on complex employee relations issues and manage people related risks in partnership with the in-house legal team. Process & governance - Ensure that HR processes are executed in alignment with expectations and that process touch points are properly owned/executed. Coaching and empowering managers - support but enable managers to own day-to-day employee matters, coaching and providing templates and materials without being directly involved unless necessary. Metrics - Understand the people metrics for the verticals and any functional team working with as appropriate for the task including headcount, budget, performance and productivity, talent, attrition, spans of control, engagement etc and use data to inform HR actions and priorities. Workload management -organise your own workload and delivery including delivering through others, showing ownership, accountability, timeliness and anticipate and navigate through problems to deliver for our vertical customers. Escalate or flag challenges as appropriate. Managing/mentoring others - the HRBP will be a professional role model to more junior team members and may sponsor others delivery on tasks/projects and may have direct line management responsibility.

Qualifications

Relevant experience in an HR Business Partner role Strong communication and collaboration skills Confidence to challenge and hold others to account Keen observation skills and effective problem solver Experience with complex employee relation matters Proactive mindset and drive to see opportunity and challenges through to resolution Ability to bring teams together and foster a strong culture of inclusion Proven experience and ability to take and operational strategic plans Ability to work within a matrixed operating structure

Additional Information

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here's some of what you can expect when you join us. But don't just take our word for it - see what our colleagues have to say LifeAt.Informa.com


Our benefits include:

Freedom & flexibility:

colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely

Great community:

a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks

Broader impact:

take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too

Career opportunity:

the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it's time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves

Time out:

25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We're not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most - although not all - of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.


At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.


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