People Partner - Product (12 Month FTC)

Want to do the best work of your life? 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 Global Product 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.

What You'll Do:

• Partnering with the Global Directors of Experience Product Management, Design and Chief of Staff.
• 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 of 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 of the directorate, 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 the Product leadership team to create solutions which build a high performing culture, in turn driving higher employee engagement and performance.

What You'll Bring:

• Shown success in influencing senior business partners, to adopt appropriate people strategies which enable business outcomes.
• 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 creating people produces 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 good practice and embedding change.
• The ability to work both alone and collaboratively, liaising with your peers in the Group HR team and more broadly across Sky and Comcast.

Team Overview:

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 fantastic products, build outstanding TV, deliver the best customer service and much, much, more.

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:

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more passionate about who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

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.

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.