People Partner

Bauer Media Group; Oban; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bauer Academy access

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working

Volunteer days

Job summary

Bauer Media Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a People Partner to join our UK Publishing People Team, driving the Publishing People Strategy through organisational effectiveness, capability initiatives, leadership, and development.

You will collaborate with leaders and Centres of Excellence to strengthen leadership capability, identify future skills needs, and shape talent and succession processes while advancing learning opportunities across Bauer Academy and other programmes.

Job description

We’re looking for a People Partner to join our UK Publishing People Team, helping deliver the Publishing People Strategy through organisational effectiveness and capability initiatives, leadership, talent and development.

This is a broad role with the opportunity to lead business-wide people programme, while working closely with leaders, Business Partners and Centres of Excellence. You’ll play an important part in developing leadership capability, strengthening talent and succession, improving organisational effectiveness and helping Publishing build the skills it needs for the future.

What You'll Be Doing

• Organisational Effectiveness & Capability


• Drive programmes that improve organisational effectiveness, ways of working and business performance.


• Support organisational design, workforce planning and change initiatives.Partner with leaders to identify capability gaps and future skills needs.


• Drive future skills and AI capability initiatives aligned to business priorities.

Leadership, Talent & Development

• Lead leadership and management development initiatives, including the rollout of leadership frameworks.


• Support and embed talent management, succession planning and career development practices.


• Promote learning and development opportunities, including Bauer Academy and other capability-building programmes.


• Design and deliver leadership, management and capability-building workshops.

People Programmes & Processes

• Lead people initiatives arising from the Publishing People Strategy.


• Lead annual people processes including performance reviews, talent reviews, succession planning and pay review activity.


• Support policy implementation, manager upskilling and probation processes.


• Work closely with leaders, People Business Partners and Centres of Excellence to deliver people initiatives.

Closing date: Tuesday 17th November

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s In It For You

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.


• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.


• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.


• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.


• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail]

We are actively recruiting for this position, however, the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email [e-mail] we would love to hear from you.