SMG Hiring for HR Manager at London Full Time

SMG is one of the most exciting growth companies in the UK today. Home to three award winning agencies, Capture, Lobster and Threefold. At SMG, our people are at the heart of everything we do and are our biggest asset. We are proud to provide opportunities for fast career growth, recognising and rewarding great work, and doing this within an inclusive, highly flexible, and innovative environment.

We are dedicated to support our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We’re have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised as 2nd in Best Companies marketing and media’s best agencies to work for, and we’ve just received our 3 star accreditation from Best Companies, making us a World Class company to work for.

Across the group, we have a shared mission to lead connected commerce marketing.

Read a summary of what each of our agencies do here!

The role

We are looking for a HR Manager to join our People Team and provide HR expertise and guidance to employees and management through being a trusted and knowledgeable advisor.

What you’ll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here’s an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

SMG University: Take ownership and lead our internal SMG University team to deliver best in class internally training programmes and courses throughout the year.

Training: Work with stakeholders to create and develop training initiatives which improve skill levels and support learning culture.

Appraisals / performance grades: Support with the management of bi-annual appraisal & performance grade cycle, supporting managers to ensure all employees performance is managed effectively.

HR / ER tasks: Work closely with Senior HR Manager across a variety of HR matters including, performance management, reward planning and payroll.

HR Policy / Knowledge: Provide sound, informed and proactive advice in absence management, probation, performance, conduct, capability and other HR and ER issues.

Line management: Be a mentor and line manager of other HR professionals within the team, by showing support, sharing regular feedback, creating motivating objectives and supporting them with their career growth.

Relationship building: Build relationships with managers and develop relationship and understanding of their goals and priorities.

People projects: Support Senior HR Manager in short and long term projects as part of the people plan development.

What you’ll need to have / be

Demonstrable HR / L&D advisor / manager level experience.

Relevant HR qualification (CIPD Level 3 or Level 5).

Line management or mentor experience to junior HR professionals.

Excellent communication, planning & organisational skills.

Ability to handle a range of issues with sensitivity and confidentiality.

A solid understanding of the key principles of employment law and experience supporting ER cases.

Curiosity to help identify issues and spot opportunities for improvement.

Advanced MS Office skills, including PowerPoint.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don’t have every single thing on this list, we’d still love to hear from you.

The best bits

Here at SMG we are dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here’s some of our favourites…

Generous discretionary bonus scheme

‍️ £1,200 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

£500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

Free headspace subscription

4pm Friday finishes all year round

Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

The process

We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you’re interested in working with us.

There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.

We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you’ll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.

Helping you shine

We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on [email protected].

SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer

We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation (“the protected characteristics”). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. More information on what we are doing can be found here.

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