People Partner 6 months FTC

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

The People Partner for Ireland serves as a key change agent that contracts into the business to drive and align People strategic priorities with business strategy, whilst also supporting the strategic goals and needs of the business.

This role predominantly supports the business in delivering a best in class service throughout Ireland. To remain competitive Sky needs to continue to transform and this role has a key role to play in this. You will be responsible for business partnering on the people agenda, guiding the organisation through transformation whilst maintaining employee engagement and customer NPS. This is a varied role, working with a wider people team to deliver Skys overall strategic objectives.

What you'll do:

• Partner with various business units to offer thought leadership on how to develop and implement the right people and organisational solutions to execute business strategy.
• Accountable for the design and delivery of strategic people plans to enable business outcomes.
• Act as a local point of business expertise for CofE’s to help shape people products & services.
• Challenge the business to ensure there is integrity in all our people decisions.
• Question and challenge senior business leaders to get to the root cause of business issues and use this to effectively match CofE products to business issues.
• Proactive talent management, including finding opportunities for talent mobility across the organisation, succession planning and external talent pipelining.
• Embed and achieve D&I ambitions through all people initiatives.
• Role model and mentor our leaders to embed Leader Model and drive cultural change.
• Ensure consistent reward and banding principles are applied across the employee lifecycle.
• Seek impactful workforce data & insights to enable more effective business decisions.
• Partner with leaders to create solutions which build a high-performance culture, in turn driving higher employee engagement and performance.
• Build manager capability on a wide range of areas including employee relations and absence management.

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrable success in influencing senior business stakeholders as business partnering, to adopt appropriate people strategies which enable business outcomes.
• Business partnering to support the delivery of the overall people strategy across Ireland.
• The ability to seek and analyse data from multiple sources to get to the root cause of business issues and use this to effectively match CoE products to business issues.
• A broad understanding of different aspects of HR, including demonstrable experience of shaping people products and services with diversity and inclusion at their heart.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and building robust people and culture plans to support business transformation and an engaged work force.
• Demonstrable experience leading organisational change, including organisational design best practice and embedding change.
• The ability to work both alone and collaboratively, working closely with your peers in the Group HR team and more broadly across Sky and Comcast

Human Resources

Our HR team is all about making Sky a great place to work that’s both fair and inclusive for our people. We do OUR best to help everyone be at THEIR best. From hiring fantastic people to offering great benefits, from supporting learning and careers to making sure everyone gets paid on time – it all makes a difference. We want our people to have everything they need to design awesome products, create amazing TV, deliver the best customer service and much, much, more.

The Rewards

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Access to free TV
• A generous pension package.
• Private healthcare.
• Discounted broadband.

Where you'll work:

Burlington Road, Dublin, Ireland

Sky operates a Hybrid working pattern with no more than 2 days working from home. The Leadership teams you will be partnering with are based in Dublin.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. 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. 

Why wait? 

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you. To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.