Senior People Business Partner

About Us**:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

**About the Role**:
The Dow Jones People team encourages the diverse opinions, skills, and strengths of our colleagues around the world with respect and empathy when delivering work. We do this by working together for the greater good, sharing our expertise, experience and ideas to support each other both within our team and when engaging our Centers of Excellence. We're uniquely positioned as a partner to our employees and businesses to develop relationships focused on both people and goals. Through collaboration with the People team's Center of Experts, business partners ensure the workforce is supported, engaged, and future-focused.

We're looking for a Senior People Business Partner who has experience building relationships with leaders, understanding business needs and influencing to lead positive change throughout an organization. You will be a role model to the HR Generalists and junior members of the People team, sharing best practices and skills to help them succeed and grow. You will live our values of Collaboration, Trust, Impact, and Excellence through your work, delivering a people-first approach to our client groups, driving improvements around our own ways of working, and supporting data-driven strategies. You will report to a VP, People Business Partner and will work in our London office at least three days a week.

**You Will**:

- Work toward KPIs that help connect the People Team to the goals of the business
- Develop an intimate understanding of the businesses you support and be a strategic partner to leaders on programs including: employee engagement, retention, performance planning, employee relations, career development, employee metrics, succession planning, and organizational structuring.
- Bring the right people together to build new tools and improve the way we work.
- Advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization, personally and programmatically.
- Foster productive conversations around all areas of the employee life cycle and our internal programs.
- Develop and implement new processes and improve existing ones.
- Provide honest, constructive feedback and input, even when it may be unpopular.
- Inform and help create human resource practices and systems that promote our competitive advantage as well as support employee retention, business priorities, and collective bargaining agreements.
- Advance our culture of trust by collaborating, sharing in successes, and encouraging colleagues.

**You Have**:

- A willingness to work in the NYC office at least three days each week
- 5+ years of progressively responsible human resources experience including employee relations, DE&I, workplace investigations, and performance management
- Experience with current employment/labor laws (federal, state, and local regulations)
- Experience improving, developing, and implementing best practices
- Experience using data analytics to make actionable recommendations
- Experience building relationships, gaining credibility, and being viewed as a trusted advisor
- The ability to balance business and employee advocacy
- Experience facilitating talent movement into and throughout an organization, using your understanding of individual and organizational dynamics
- Collaboration, coaching, and counseling skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

**Our Benefits**:

- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plans
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
- Education Benefits
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Family Care Benefits
- Commuter Transit Program
- Subscription Discounts
- Employee Referral Program

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets.

Business Area: Dow Jones - People

Job Category: Human Resources

Union Status:
Non-Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and informa