About the Role:
Global Investment at Omnicom Media Group
The Global Investment team is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver commitments to our well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply investment best practice across the network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and investment guidance.
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced and collaborative People Partner who is passionate about delivering a quality service in fast paced media agency environment. Working three days a week in the office to support our departments and teams to provide an end-to-end people service and outstanding employee experience.
As champions of the employee experience and transformation, we empower growth, celebrate excellence, and ignite success. Focused on career growth, internal mobility, learning, and engagement, we drive change and set high goals. The people team goal is to join together to foster an environment where everyone thrives through innovative and solutions-oriented approaches.
Together, we believe we’ll achieve greatness!
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the CEO, you will be a key member of the wider leadership and management teams. You will be responsible for providing a pro-active partner service to ensure that the people agenda supports our business and people objectives. You will deliver value added services, aligned to our people plans and will support the departments and teams in the development and delivery of people plans and initiatives with an emphasis on building great team management skills.
Key responsibilities
- Provide a wide-ranging HR Business Partnering service to management, ensuring that all managers have the necessary tools and capability to professionally manage themselves and their people
- Provide day-to-day leadership to address the people challenges for the business department or area
- Use key people analytics to inform decisions and make recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Management, deployment and completion of HR projects within the business
- Build management capability through coaching and challenging on people management and decisions. Includes delivering regular people workshops
- Create solutions to people issues that enable team leads to resolve people challenges fairly, swiftly and legally
- Use data and metrics to identify potential issues and support decision-making that really increases employee engagement
- Build and maintain visible and meaningful working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and partners
- Lead and advise on HR legal and employee relations (inc TUPE) matters to ensure consistency, legal compliance, and risk mitigation, particularly on complex matters ensuring you mitigate any potential risks
- Plan and implement HR initiatives and projects aligned to HR plans, process and business-driven initiatives
- Support the marketing and engagement in Learning and Development activities. Using data to provide SLT feedback and analysis on training courses.
- Help champion DEIB initiatives and activities to reach targets
- Manage, coach and mentor the team modelling our agency values and behaviours
Attributes, skills and behaviours
- You will be an experienced generalist HR Business Partner, ideally, supported by your CIPD level 7
- A proven background in adding value and improving the employee experience and best practice demonstrating great interpersonal skills and gravitas particularly in people management and development
- High quality communication and stakeholder management capabilities with the ability to deliver HR servicing across two office locations will be essential for success in this role.
- Able to produce and present PPT presentations, intermediate level Excel skills and used to generating reports from our HRIS (Successfactors) and familiar with sharepoint
- The ability to challenge the status quo where we can make improvements
- Experience of leading through change and the ability to implement and help drive transformation would be advantageous
- Work in a timely, solution-oriented, and service-oriented manner in a fast paced environment
- Approachable and confident working with all levels of the agency
Flexible Working
We are committed to supporting and helping the Global Investment have a great work/life balance and a positive attitude to well-being. As part of this we have a flexible and hybrid working model as a core part of how we operate.
We believe flexible & hybrid working can increases individual motivation, improves performance and productivity, and reduces stress as well as helping manage wellbeing generally. We will work with you to implement the best flexible working solution for you without compromising team performance and client delivery.
Employee Benefits
We offer pension contributions, life insurance, health insurance, a generous holiday entitlement and many other employee benefits for all. We have an enhanced maternity leave, shared parental leave, paternity leave pay policy.
Diversity
At Global Investment, we are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity & inclusion of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.
We welcome remarkable people from a broad range of backgrounds who bring their diverse attitudes, opinions, and beliefs into a culture where you are treated with respect and can be comfortable at work just being you. Embracing our differences results in a stimulating and inspiring environment will lead to everyone viewing the world, our work and each other with fresh eyes.
We are keen to encourage applicants from people from all walks of life and we want you to be at your best throughout the recruitment process, please discuss any specific adjustments with a member of the Global Investment People team.
About the Agency:
Omnicom Media Group Europe (OMG EMEA) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle.
The Global Investment team at OMG EMEA is a dedicated unit to drive value creation and monitor and deliver media buying commitments to our well established and growing client base. It is built around experienced media traders, auditors and analysts whose job is to share and apply investment best practice across our global network and ensure that our clients always receive the best media value and investment guidance.
The team play a vital role quantifying and tracking media buying performance across all Omnicom Media Group markets for global clients. We strive to define new ways of measuring media value to ensure we continue to lead the industry in this area.
Flexible Working
At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG
At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.
We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice which is available on https://omnicommediagroup.com/recruitment-privacy-notices/.
Omnicom Media Group UK Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Omnicom Media Group UK and has not been reviewed or approved by Omnicom Media Group UK.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave allowances include 27 days’ annual leave plus a birthday day and options to trade holiday. Additional “summer Fridays/recharge days” help widen time‑off options.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid working with a typical three‑days‑in/two‑days‑remote pattern and defined core hours supports flexibility. Work‑from‑anywhere allowances and 2–3 WFH days are also referenced in the UK context.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical insurance, life assurance, and an Employee Assistance Programme are part of the core package. Mental wellbeing support, trained Mental Health First Aiders, and a subsidised gym further reinforce health coverage.
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OMG UK delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, MG OMD, PHD and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences. We are enormously proud of our Agency and Network of the Year accolades, including most recently, PHD named Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year, MG OMD named Thinkbox TV Planning Agency of the Year, and OMG Unite named Media Agency of the Year at the Leadership and Diversity Awards. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, diverse voices and minority communities are valued, heard and well represented, and where everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness.
