Human Resources Business Partner

3 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom MarketCast UK Ltd Full time

**Human Resources Business Partner**:
**Full time, 12-month fixed term contract**:
**Location - Reading/London, UK (Hybrid)**:
**Data-Driven Research and Insights**:
MarketCast combines the power of research, technology, and data science to help marketers and researchers maximize their advertising impact and unlock brand Fandom.

Our data and insights guide critical marketing decisions, helping brands determine which fandom audiences to prioritize and product benefits to communicate, in addition to developing, launching, and measuring brand and advertising campaigns across media platforms. Today our clients represent the biggest names in entertainment, tech, consumer brands, and sports and video games, and our impact touches the lives of billions of people around the globe.

MarketCast is looking for a Human Resources Business Partner who will report directly to our VP HR based in Los Angeles. The HR Business Partner will partner with our Global Research teams in addition to supporting the UK-based employee population. They will be responsible for aligning business objectives to our Core Values as well as drive employee growth and development.

**#FandomIsOurJam**

**We’re looking for**:

- Act as primary HR Business Partner to UK-based employees across various functions
- In addition, provide HR Business Partner support to global research teams in partnership with the VP HR (US based)
- Partner with the senior team on driving employee engagement and retention, in addition to any organisational design needs as required
- Work closely with Talent Acquisition (Globally) on any and all hiring and onboarding needs as well as offer agreements
- Day-to-day management of all UK HR processes and workflows, iterating these according to business requirements
- Manage UK HR calendar and inbox - including upcoming renewals, probationary periods, training dates, submission deadlines etc.
- Build reports and review people analytics to help drive decision-making
- Partner with global benefits and payroll providers
- Liaise with external employment lawyers where required
- Lead and/or partner on various global HR initiatives as needed
- Maintain systems, records, and databases with accurate information and in line with the appropriate data protection laws
- Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management
- Prepare and administer employee documentation and ensure correct digital filing of such
- Ownership of health and safety - including first aid and liaising with building management
- Responsible for tracking and ordering lunches and office supplies for the UK offices on a weekly basis
- Ability to work successfully in a transformative environment

**Key Skills and Experiences**:

- CIPD Level 5 Qualified
- Minimum of 6 years HR experience
- Must have solid understanding of UK employment law and best practice
- Must have strong experience and understanding of employee relations
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Organised, efficient and detail-oriented, acts with empathy and integrity
- Solid IT skills - Excel, Word, ability to pick up new systems, comfortable presenting

**It would be good to have**:

- Outsourced payroll experience
- Experience processing pension contributions
- Experience using UKG

**Benefits and Perks**:

- 29 days annual leave, PLUS Bank Holidays
- Flexi-time with core hours between 10am and 3pm
- Flexible location - With two new UK office hubs, (Reading and London, Farringdon) employees are welcome to visit their preferred office
- 2 days’ work from home, per week
- 4% match pension scheme
- Regular social events in both of our UK locations
- Professional growth and career development

**Our Purpose**:
Fandom connects people with shared passions and builds communities around them. It offers them space to express their joy and love, whether that’s for superheroes, sports teams, or even small batch whiskeys. At MarketCast, we believe in the power of fandom. It’s as important for brands as it is for action heroes and we do fandom research, data science and analytics better than anyone on the planet. This obsessive focus on fans helps the world’s top creators, media platforms, and sports leagues transform followers into fanatics and investments into impact.

**Our Core Values**:
**Curiosity Makes Us Tick**

Our love of learning manifests in everything we do - from the surveys we field and the datasets we analyze to the technology we develop. Where others pause, we push forward, uncovering hidden meaning and answers. Always learning, always looking for more.

**We Celebrate Wins**

Whether its wowing clients with research or solving everyday challenges, we pause to honor great work and everyone who plays a role in it. We acknowledge and recognize great work and hustle that helps deliver the very best outcomes.

**Trust is Always Trending**

Trust means everything to us. It’s lending a hand when deadlines loom, always delivering on the promises we make, and calling

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