EditShare Hiring for HR Business Partner at Basingstoke Full Time

EditShare exists to simplify storytelling. We enable media professionals to collaborate on projects thanks to our ever-expanding range of innovative products and features, all designed to improve production and unleash creativity. Integration and collaboration are central to all products in our comprehensive range of media management solutions – from ingest to archive.

Why We Need You

EditShare is seeking a highly talented HR Business Partner, reporting directly to the VP of People Operations. This role will sit as part of our small but agile People Ops team and will be a business partner to employees and managers across the EMEA, APAC, and AMER region. This role will help drive all aspects of the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, HRIS data integrity, training programs as well as recruiting support, and other ad hoc projects/initiatives. This position will have the additional opportunity to grow into a strategic Senior HR partner for these client groups

This is a great role for someone looking to develop their HR international experience and wanting to develop into a more senior HR Business Partner, as you will partner across a broad array of company-wide initiatives as well as provide hands-on support to various people systems and processes. This includes leading on system management, talent development, performance management, etc. You will grow into an experienced and embedded strategic partner to your assigned client groups, ensuring timely response to employee issues and consistent practices across groups, with the opportunity for collaboration on international employee relations issues.

Problems You’ll Solve

In your first 30 days you will:
Work in collaboration with the VP of People Operations to understand and implement a talent retention strategy across the business.

Partnering with the senior managers and the executive team to rapidly identify the most critical hires, leading best practices related to hiring, and translating them to an actionable plan for how we fill the most important seats in our organization with the right people.

Embed and become a trusted advisor and first point of contact to the senior management client group across all geo’s

Lead and take command of the annual 9 box talent management process in conjunction with people managers

In your first 60 days you will:
Lead and implement the adoption of the HR metric dashboard with SLT and Management team to drive better business and departmental decisions.

Lead and take command of the rollout of the health and wellbeing strategy across the business, including roll-out and adoption of key supporting tools such as Spill, HeadSpace, and Mental Health First Aiders

In your first 90 days you will:
Lead and take command of the DEI initiatives and training for the business.

Support in rolling out a company-wide career pathway framework for all employees for the Sales, Marketing, and General Administration functional groups.

Lead and implement the Inspire (young in careers) training program across the business

Work with the office team to lead and implement Health and Safety Training for UK and US office.

On an ongoing basis:
You will grow to provide strong business partner support to your senior manager client group. ensuring consistency in performance management, talent development, and managerial practices, etc.

You will grow to take control and resolve employee relation issues; provide guidance to employees and managers, offering feedback and advice in a proactive and compassionate manner.

You will lead in creating a culture of peer-to-peer learning in the People Ops team, leveraging and sharing your HR and country-specific knowledge with the wider team.

What We’re Looking For

Project Management, Organizational Planning & Execution: You will be given responsibility for critical projects early and often. We expect you to ramp up quickly and own your work from start to finish. As a critical player on a small People Ops team, you will be in the spotlight early and often. You should feel comfortable seeking clarity on your responsibilities and then taking total ownership to drive the work while partnering with the VP of People Operations to clear roadblocks. To demonstrate this, we expect you to have experience owning and driving processes.

Influencing and Relationship-Building: Success in this role requires emotional agility. The HR Business Partner will need to demonstrate that they can make a difference quickly while embracing a performance-driven culture. They will also need to establish credibility with existing employees and managers by demonstrating technical expertise and a willingness to work with others to achieve a goal without taking all the credit. They should take their work seriously, but not themselves. They should be ambitious but grounded. They should get satisfaction out of building something great with people they respect and trust. You should be a skilled active listener that naturally expresses empathy.

Be Creative and Resourceful: The HR Business Partner will need to be able to do more with less. A person who is a good fit for this job does not like jobs where there are periods of the day / week / year when there’s not much going on. This person will enjoy being a bit stretched on a day-to-day basis because 1) it’s way more fun to be busy and 2) s/he understands that when we push ourselves, we learn, grow, and develop

Be a Systems Thinker: The HR Business Partner will need to work with the VP of People Operations to maintain (and sometimes re-design or create) repeatable, efficient, and compliant HR operations. They should think creatively and incorporate talent best practices spanning HR operations, talent management, compensation, benefits, policies and compliance to drive organizational efficiency.

Fluency with Data and Reporting: We are incredibly data-driven when it comes to our people. We will seek to deploy a highly data driven and human cantered performance management process, a process to monitor engagement and pulse our employee base, and with the new HRIS will be able to report much more regularly and completely to the broader organization. The HR generalist will be the data guru on the HR team, so a fluency and love for data and how it improves outcomes is critical.

Possess Strong Self-Awareness and EQ: People are complex. They require empathy, compassion, and support. Sometimes they need tough love. To do this deftly requires a strong understanding of self and a high degree of EQ to be able to appropriately diagnose and then handle employee relations issues. While of course the VP of People Operations will be involved with any significant issues, the HR Business Partner should be capable of working one on one with many employees.

Celebrate and Enjoy the Journey: At times, the HR Business Partner will face challenges rolling out either systems or programs, while managing the multiple stakeholders from across the organization. With support from the VP of People Operations, this individual will need to be comfortable pushing back on how things may have been done in the past, while also communicating effectively to gain critical buy-in throughout the organization. They will be critical to driving cross-functional collaboration and will need to provide objective and specific data points to encourage the development of colleagues.

Treat Ourselves and Our Customers with Respect: Success in this role requires emotional agility. The HR Business Partner will need to demonstrate that they can make a difference quickly while embracing a performance-driven culture. They will also need to establish credibility with existing employees and managers by demonstrating technical expertise and a willingness to work with others to achieve a goal without taking all the credit. They should take their work seriously, but not themselves. They should be ambitious but grounded. They should get satisfaction out of building something great with people they respect and trust.

Growth Mindset: This role offers tremendous growth opportunities for those that take advantage. We want you to show us how you have improved yourself in work and in life, and what you do to sharpen your skills on the job and make the most of your potential.

Optimism, Tenacity & Conflict Resolution: At times, this individual will face challenges rolling out systems, new processes, or transformational initiatives. This individual has the responsibility for quarterbacking initiatives spanning across functions and on teams without any individuals reporting directly to him or her. Doing things with others, not to others, is paramount, so a level-headed, empathetic, business-minded approach to challenge is key. You will have several stories in which you rolled up your sleeves and “got it done” despite challenging circumstances, difficult co-workers, and other significant obstacles. Follow-through in the face of adversity is very important.

Comfort with Ambiguity: At times, this role will be responsible for taking nebulous ideas and translating them into specific, concrete actions. Your work will rarely be paint-by-number. You will be comfortable taking nebulous direction, translating it into a plan, and enlisting those you need to get the job done. As such, you will have examples of times when you took a poorly-formed idea, sharpened it, and owned its execution from start to finish.

Kind, Humble, and Fun: We want you to be a person we enjoy collaborating with, spending time with, and investing in. You may be this person if you already invest heavily in those you work with, and if you consistently receive the feedback that you are a great colleague and teammate. A great sign is if people go out of their way to work with you, no matter the situation

How We Worke Work

At EditShare, our culture is driven by a shared respect for our customers, our people, and our products. We are passionate about our Core Values and believe they empower us to innovate and solve complex problems. We expect all employees to own culture and live by the values.

Customer Empathy: We listen first. We believe this allows us to understand the context of the story and respond rapidly with innovative solutions.

Humility: We recognize that we are stronger as the sum of our parts and respect the value of each individual contribution. We have the courage to do the hard work and learn along the way.

Dig Deep: We have the curiosity to ask questions until we understand and the integrity to follow through on hard discussions.

All Around Players: We are all willing and able to step in and play any position. We all own the problem and are willing to quarterback a solution.

Win Together: We are happy when our customers and our teams succeed. We practice honest communication and respectfully work together to solve complex problems.

Perks and Benefits

Unlimited Holiday Days – a truly unlimited holiday policy

Full paid lunch on us when you work from the office

‍ Monthly company on-site massage

Employer pension

Vitality – full private medical insurance for you and your family

Cigna – full private dental insurance for you and your family

Employee Assistance Programme

EyeCare Plan

‍♀️ Cycle to Work Scheme

Paid time off when you are unwell

A flexible approach to working – opt into what works for your work-life balance

Company Wellbeing Days – we shut up shop twice a year to allow employees to take the day off

A collaborative, creative, and inspiring working environment

Life Assurance at three times your basic salary

Group Income Protection

Financial, Physical, and Mental Wellbeing Support

Generous Family Leave package – we support you expanding your family

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting exceptional candidates, for that reason if you don’t meet 100% of the job description, that’s okay! Please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

EditShare is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.