Human Resources Business Partner

Office Collective Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Office Collective Limited, a London-based hybrid, global digital entertainment business, seeks an experienced HR Business Partner to shape the people strategy and run day-to-day HR operations across multiple markets.

You will partner with senior leaders, translate commercial priorities into practical people plans, and drive workforce planning, talent development and organisational design in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as HR Business Partner in a commercial, matrixed organisation.
• Ability to translate commercial priorities into people plans.
• Proven capability with workforce planning, talent development and organisational design.
• Comfort operating in global / multi-country settings and with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to translate commercial priorities into people plans.
• Review talent and organisation structure to ensure capabilities align with business needs.
• Support workforce and succession planning, and talent development initiatives.
• Use data and metrics to identify risks, gaps and opportunities for the business.
• Produce workforce insights to support strategic decisions.
• Assist with organisational design, restructures and change programmes.
• Advise leaders on performance, engagement and employee relations matters.
• Challenge stakeholders constructively to enable commercially sound decisions.
• Navigate across functions and countries within a complex matrix structure.
• Maintain operational HR activity and drive process improvements.

Skills

Commercial mindset

Data interpretation

Talent management

Workforce planning

Organisational design

Global/matrixed environment

Stakeholder management

Change agility

Strategic thinking

Decisive

Job description

London | Hybrid | Global Digital Entertainment Business

This is a confidential opportunity to join a successful, international digital entertainment business operating within the online sports betting and gaming sector.

The organisation combines technology, data and digital products to deliver entertainment to customers across a range of regulated global markets. It is a fast-moving, commercially driven and highly matrixed business, with teams working across multiple countries, functions and brands.

We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner who can operate confidently in this type of complex environment. This is not a traditional, policy-led HR role. The successful person will be commercially minded, business savvy and comfortable using their judgement to find pragmatic solutions.

You will understand when established processes are important, but you will not be limited by them. You must be able to improvise, see the bigger picture and make sensible decisions based on the needs of the business.

The role

Working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders across the organisation, you will help shape and deliver the people strategy while ensuring the day-to-day HR operation continues to run effectively.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with senior leaders to understand their commercial priorities and translate these into practical people plans
• Reviewing the current talent and organisational structure to ensure the business has the right people and capabilities in the right areas
• Supporting workforce planning, succession planning and talent development
• Using people data, metrics and trends to identify risks, gaps and opportunities
• Producing meaningful workforce insights to support business decisions
• Supporting organisational design, restructures and wider change programmes
• Advising leaders on performance, capability, engagement and employee relations matters
• Challenging stakeholders constructively and helping them make commercially sound people decisions
• Working across different functions, countries and reporting lines within a complex matrix structure
• Maintaining operational oversight and ensuring that essential HR activity continues to run smoothly
• Identifying where processes can be improved, simplified or adapted to better support the business
• Balancing immediate operational priorities with the organisation’s longer-term talent and workforce needs

About you

You will be an experienced HR Business Partner who understands how a commercial organisation operates and can look beyond an individual HR issue to consider its wider business impact.

You will need to be:

• Commercially minded and genuinely interested in how the business performs
• Confident interpreting workforce data and using it to influence decisions
• Experienced in talent management, workforce planning and organisational design
• Comfortable working within a global or highly matrixed organisation
• Pragmatic, adaptable and able to find solutions when there is no obvious rulebook
• Confident challenging senior stakeholders and holding your position when necessary
• Resilient and thick-skinned, without losing your ability to build trusted relationships
• Comfortable working with strong personalities and competing priorities
• Able to move between strategic conversations and hands-on operational HR matters
• Decisive, credible and calm in a fast-paced environment
• Capable of maintaining momentum and keeping the ship running during periods of change

Experience within a fast-paced, technology-led, digital, gaming or similarly commercial international organisation would be particularly valuable.

This is an opportunity to work closely with senior decision-makers within a successful international business where HR is expected to contribute commercially rather than operate as a purely administrative or policy-focused function.

You will have the scope to influence the talent structure, improve how workforce decisions are made and help shape the organisation’s future people strategy. It will suit someone who enjoys complexity, wants genuine business exposure and is confident taking ownership.