Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Footballco; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Footballco is seeking a commercially aware People Business Partner to support our fast-paced, globally connected business in London. You will partner with leaders to implement the People Strategy across the organisation, shaping culture, performance, and wellbeing.

This hands-on role covers the full employee lifecycle, while supporting initiatives spanning Wellbeing, DEI, Talent, Reward, and Performance. You will coach managers and drive change in a dynamic media environment.

Qualifications

• Solid experience as a People Business Partner, preferably in media or fast-moving creative environments.
• Strong understanding of UK employment law and international exposure is a plus.
• Proven ability to manage employee relations cases independently.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience driving wellbeing, DE&I, talent, and performance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to deliver people plans that support growth and priorities.
• Embed company values in hiring, development, recognition, and performance management.
• Coach managers to build engaged, high-performing teams.
• Lead and manage employee relations with sound judgement and fairness.
• Drive performance reviews and goal-setting to create ownership and impact.
• Support organisational change and team evolution as the business scales.
• Ensure HR policies are applied consistently and in line with legislation.
• Contribute to wellbeing and DE&I initiatives reflecting diverse audiences.

Skills

People Business Partner

Stakeholder management

UK employment law

Employee relations

Change management

Communication

Job description

Footballco is the world's leading football media company, built for the next generation of fans. Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We cover everything in football from news and analysis, original reporting, and social media content, to web stores, video, podcasts, newsletters, and live scores. With over 1 billion video views per month, 100 million social followers globally, and a reach of 800 million across web, social, and video platforms, Footballco is the world’s largest football media company and one of the largest digital media companies in sport globally.

About the Role

This position is based in London, with an expectation of three days per week in the office.

We’re looking for a commercially aware and culturally driven People Business Partner to support our fast-paced, creative, and globally connected business.

Reporting to the EVP People, you will partner with leaders and managers to bring our People Strategy to life across the organisation. Working at the heart of a dynamic media and sports environment, you’ll help build high-performing teams, embed our values, and create a culture where creativity, accountability, and collaboration thrive.

This is a hands-on role that blends strategic input with operational delivery. You’ll operate across the full employee lifecycle while supporting initiatives spanning Wellbeing, DE&I, Talent, Reward, and Performance.

What you'll be doing:

• Partner with leaders and managers to deliver people plans that support ambitious growth and evolving business priorities.
• Help define and embed our company values, ensuring they show up in how we hire, develop, recognise, and manage performance.
• Coach managers to build engaged, high-performing teams.
• Lead and manage employee relations matters with confidence and sound judgement, balancing commercial awareness with fairness.
• Drive performance review cycles and goal-setting processes that promote clarity, ownership, and impact.
• Support organisational change, growth, and team evolution as the business scales and adapts.
• Ensure HR policies and practices are applied consistently and in line with employment legislation.
• Contribute to wellbeing and DE&I initiatives that reflect the diversity of our audiences and industry.

What you have:

• Solid experience in a People Business Partner role, ideally within media, sports, entertainment, tech, or another fast-moving creative industry.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law (international exposure a plus).
• Proven experience managing employee relations cases independently.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Strong stakeholder skills with the ability to build credibility quickly.
• Commercial awareness — understanding how people decisions impact delivery, content output, and growth.
• Highly organised and solutions-focused, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Confident communicator with strong emotional intelligence.

Our Culture

We are a team of 300+ passionate people based in eighteen offices all over the world. We are writers, producers, developers, strategists, sellers, creatives, project managers, number crunchers, people-people and more. Not all of us love football the sport, but we all pride ourselves on leading football the industry.

Our company culture plays a huge part in that.

Having something that connects us outside of the work we do, is as important to us as the quality of the content we create. So much so, we have regional squads, each responsible for bringing us together and making life at Footballco as great as it can be.

Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.