People Manager

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Central to The Drum are our people. As a dynamic and creative company with a global presence, we recognise the crucial role played by our employees. With a team of approximately 90 talented individuals, we are seeking an experienced People Manager who shares our passion for people and their employment experience.

This standalone role offers autonomy and the chance to make a significant impact within our organisation, and the successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. The role will be based in the UK, and will be responsible for overseeing HR operations across our key locations in London, Glasgow and US.

This exciting opportunity requires an understanding of local employment laws and regulations in order to provide support and guidance to our diverse workforce. Your role will involve providing end-to-end HR support throughout the employee life cycle. This will include partnering with managers to offer valuable coaching and development opportunities. Your expertise will be
pivotal in fostering a high-performance culture, ensuring employee relations are effectively managed across all regions.

What will you do?

• As a central point of contact, you will support team members through all stages of their employee experience (as early as pre-onboarding) and maximise their experience of working at The Drum throughout their career here.
• Draft contracts, contract amendments and all other necessary administration needed for any type of employment change.
• Maintain all processes in place, and regularly assess ways of working for maximum effectiveness.
• Manage and maintain HRIS (we use HiBob); producing relevant and accurate MI reports.
• Coach managers through Employee Relations (ER) cases (conduct, performance, probation management, flexible working requests, grievances, family leave management, etc.) to successful outcomes.
• Administer dependable payroll and benefits processes for new and existing team members across our two global locations. Able to make recommendations for changes to benefits suite.
• Ensure the effective management of talent performance across all departments, working closely with line managers to achieve talent density within the business.
• Draft and update policy & procedure documents proactively and in line with local country legislative changes.
• Manage right to work and visa processes, ensuring we're compliant across all locations.
• Own ad-hoc improvement projects, from conception to embedding.
• Drive engagement via the Culture Club and the D&I group.
• Manage and coordinate annual employee survey, making recommendations from analysis of results.

How will you contribute to The Drum's success?

• People Performance - ensure our talent are collaboratively performing to the best of their potential
• People Attraction & Retention - ensure we attract and retain our valuable talent, a crucial contributor to our success
• People Satisfaction - ensure our people are happy and fulfilled in their working experience at The Drum.

Requirements

Who are we looking for?

• Solutions-focused attitude with a real sense of spirit!
• Can balance value-adding projects whilst maintaining BAU quality
• Approachable and visible within the business
• Ability to advise and influence different types of stakeholders
• Highly organised and able to prioritise proactively
• Experience leading small projects and embedding new initiatives
• Recruitment and ATS management experience preferable. We use Workable
• Able to balance a commercial, people and compliance lens in their work
• Good working knowledge of employment legislation in UK (US desirable)
• Strong Excel skills
• Experience using HRIS systems and manipulating data
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbally
• Ideally CIPD L5 qualified

Benefits

• We work on a hybrid model to ensure you get the best of both worlds - a few days a week in our Shoreditch or Glasgow offices and the rest from home.
• 28 days annual leave
• Got that Friday feeling? We do too - we finish early every Friday!
• People come first at The Drum and so when we achieve our financial goals, we share the profits with the whole team.
• Love events? We have an entire building dedicated to hosting some of the industry's best events, with its own bar and roof terrace! You get VIP access.
• We love to hire super-talented people and we've created a Mentoring Scheme to support your development.
• Supporting others is important to us and we encourage you to do the same with 2x paid charity volunteering days each year.
• We have a Culture Club to be proud of. We host a variety of fun social events, from axe throwing to book clubs and bake offs to name a few.
• We all feel under the weather from time to time but fear not, we provide Enhanced Sick Pay for all our staff.
• Having a "should have gone to Specsavers" moment? Our free Eyecare Vouchers will come in useful.
• Starting a family? Enjoy our Enhanced Family Leave.
• Company Pension for when it's time to kick back and relax.
• Generous Employee Referral Bonuses.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• A creative and engaging company culture right across the business.

Who We Are

We believe that marketing can change the world for the better and that our mission is to help marketing professionals around the world to learn, make better decisions, make better marketing and be more successful.

Our vision is to create the leading destination for marketing insights in the world with a particular focus on brand decision-makers. We think of our audience first, use data intelligently, build on our innovative product range and love using the foundation of our industry - creativity.

With bases in London, Glasgow, New York, Mumbai and Singapore, we inform and inspire readers with content around pillars of content: marketing, creativity, agencies, media, technology, sustainability.

We curate valuable insights in various ways:

• Via our team of journalists
• From the best-in-class work identified through our award shows
• From user-generated content via Open Mic and The Drum Network
• Via content co-created with our clients
• Through the ratings we gather from marketing services buyers on The Drum Recommends.

We deliver it to our audience through multiple channels: articles and reports; TV; audio; live in person at The Drum Labs and elsewhere; online networking/meetings; at industry events.

Our Mission, Vision and Values

Our MISSION is to help marketing professionals around the world to learn, make better decisions, produce better marketing, and be more successful.

Our VISION is to be the world's leading destination for marketing knowledge, by focusing on our audience, providing data and insights, and creating a platform for recognising success. Our global awards program, TV channel and innovative product range will support the foundation of our industry - creativity.

Our VALUES:

• We aren't happy until we've done what we said we would
• We have high standards
• We only make decisions and conduct ourselves in ways we would be proud to share
• We like to shake things up, but will never be nasty
• We are always a pleasure to work with
• We relish a challenge
• We rejoice in achieving things together
• We go out of our way to give others a leg up