Activision Hiring for Human Resources Advisor at London Full Time

Requisition ID:
R011893

Job Description:
Job Title: HR Advisor

Reporting To: HR Director, AB EMEA

Department: AB International

Location: London

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across Franchise product management, corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain.

Based in Soho, the cultural heart of London’s West End with a vast array of classic record shop and leading film companies, media offices and great restaurants. Regent’s Park is close enough for a lunchtime run, as are the delights of Piccadilly Circus and the shopping mecca of Oxford Street. It is conveniently walking distance from a number of London tube stations and mainline train stations.

To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

Reporting into one of the HR Directors in the AB EMEA HR team, we are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our business and be an integral part of evolving and upholding our values and our employees experience across the whole of the employee lifecycle.

We’re looking for someone who is super organised, has great people skills, strong data management & process implementation and is passionate about providing a great employee experience to our colleagues. You will love supporting your client groups, providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday challenges, and driving process improvements which add value to both our employees and simplify our ways of working.

As an integral part of the HR team, you will play a key role supporting your stakeholders with the core of our craft. Independently advising them on our HR policies, practices, and processes to ensure we provide the best employee experience possible. You will also take the lead on our HR data supporting our leaders with their reporting, workforce planning, talent & performance practices, and engagement action plans.

Key tasks include:
Independently advise on HR policies, practices, and local regulatory requirements to resolve manager and employee policy queries linked to core HR processes, absence, probation, performance management, reward, mobility and much more.

Advise our managers with employee relations issues from: performance management, disciplinaries and grievances to supporting our Kingsters with sickness, maternity/paternity. You will have great listening skills, be objective, fair and offer advice and feedback ensuring the employee experience continuously lives up to our culture and values.

Maintains awareness of local labour laws that may impact King. Owns policies – takes an active role in updating local policies and educating managers. Works with peers & legal to update our intranet pages as needed.

Own the management information for your function(s) ensuring it is reliable, relevant, and up to date, enabling leadership to make the right decisions. This will include analysing resource data such as turnover, retention, new hires, compensation, productivity and capability. Ensuring that resourcing, talent, succession plan and employees records are accurate and up to date and that we are pulling insights and recommendations from these that support both our business and people objectives.

You will own the maintenance of data & employee changes in workday for your areas, looking at ways to continuously improve our practices here and ways of working with our global HR Ops team

Championing our values and culture you will support training programs around local and company wide: Performance Management and talent frameworks, DE&I strategies, ethical laws, standards and policies.

Support with the resourcing of our future talent, working with the business and talent acquisition to be our values and potential check for junior recruitment of individual contributors, interns and other development schemes. You will partner with managers to ensure the onboarding of our new colleagues over their first 90 days lives up to the expectations of our oganisoation, sets them up for success and the passing of their probation.

You will support our Employee Engagement initiatives; from running focus groups, preparing communications, data collection and analysis to the coordination of team feedback and action plans to ensure we follow up on our commitments and continuously drive improvements

Conducts Exit interviews as applicable ensuring learning from these are captured and fed back into both people and business plans.

Actively support other HR initiatives, projects, events, community days and other AB initiatives. This will include the development of project plans (i.e. actions, risks and issues, timelines) and supporting of local and functional projects to help improve our employee experience.

Player Profile

HR experience gained in a HR Advisory role, with hands-on experience of managing end to end HR people processes. You will be professional, credible, and responsive

Strong advisory skills and knowledge and experience of applying local employment law.

Employee relations experience

Experience of interpreting and applying HR policies and procedures with the ability to identify potential ER issues. Has thorough understanding of local payroll and general understanding of tax implications of compensation and benefits and their related risks

Experience managing multiple activities and collaborating with others to get the job done.

Strong attention to detail, organizational and excellent time management skills.

Strong experience of data analysis, management, pulling of insights and recommendations from this. Actively listens to the business on improvements that could be made to the metrics.

Seeks new ways to improve HR processes and outcomes. Look at ways to minimise cost or contribute to process improvements

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders, employees, and HR peers to ensure effective team collaboration and an enhanced customer/employee experience.

Sound judgement and decision making, with the ability to identify and resolve problems, provide solutions, and take necessary actions to prevent them from developing in future.

Appreciation and understanding of the need for confidentiality and discretion in dealing with any people related activities. Works with employees affected by changes to explain rationale and reinforce the need to change.

Excellent IT skills – particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Business fluent written and verbal English

BONUS SKILLS:
Experience of using HR systems such as Workday.

Experience with using case management systems.

Good level of all Microsoft packages including excel and PowerPoint. Can gather internal HR metrics and present them in a useful way.

Basic understanding of project management methodology.

Experience supporting the facilitation (& training) of HR processes spanning across: Performance Management, Engagement, Talent, DE&I and other people processes is an advantage.

Other languages, we are a global team.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world’s largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ – we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.