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From organisational design and workforce planning to culture, capability and AI adoption, you'll help leaders build high-performing teams, modernise ways of working and create the conditions for sustainable growth.\nThis is an opportunity to influence some of Sky's most important transformation priorities, combining commercial insight, strategic thinking and people expertise to drive lasting impact across the business.\nWhat you’ll do\n Accountable for the design and delivery of strategic people plans to enable business outcomes.\n Act as a local point of business expertise for CofE’s to help shape people products & services.\n Partner with senior leaders to shape transformation priorities, and lead / advise on organization design and the delivery of people change.\n Challenge the business to ensure there is integrity in all of our people decisions.\n Question and challenge senior business leaders to get to the root cause of business issues and use this to effectively match CofE products to business issues.\n Proactive talent management of the directorate, including finding opportunities for talent mobility across the organisation, succession planning and external talent pipelining.\n Embed and achieve D&I ambitions through all people initiatives.\n Role model and mentor our leaders to embed Leader Model and drive cultural change.\n Ensure consistent reward and banding principles are applied across the employee lifecycle.\n Seek impactful workforce data & insights to enable more effective business decisions.\n Partner with leaders to create solutions which build a high-performance culture, in turn driving higher employee engagement and performance.\nWhat you’ll bring\nEssential criteria:\n Experience operating as a People Partner in a complex environment, supporting senior leaders to deliver business priorities through effective people solutions.\n Proven experience leading and embedding organisational change, applying organisational design principles and change best practice.\n Experience of creating robust people and culture plans that support business transformation and people engagement.\n Demonstrable ability to influence senior leaders to adopt people strategies that enable sustainable business outcomes.\n Strong coaching and partnering capability, providing constructive challenge and building leader confidence in people decision-making.\n Ability to use people insight and data from multiple sources to diagnose issues and shape evidence-based recommendations.\n Clear commitment to inclusion, fairness and employee experience, embedding inclusive principles into people practices and leader behaviour.\n Strong collaboration skills, able to work autonomously while partnering effectively across People Partnering, Group HR and wider Sky stakeholders \nBenefits and perks\nThere's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:\n Free NOW package\n Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution \n Private healthcare with mental health support \n Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance\n Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect \n Tech schemes\nHow you’ll work\nAt Sky, we want to be a community that thrives by being together. Flexible working remains a key part of that. We want our people to have the best of both worlds - time working at home, as well as time in the office.\nThe hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the Osterley office per week.\nYour office base\nOur Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.\nOur Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.\nWho we are\nWe’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.\nWe’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.\nJust so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.\nTo be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. 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