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Senior People Manager - Media - 14 Month Fixed Term Contract 🚨
3 days in London - Hybrid Working
💰 £65,000 - £75,000 + benefits
🗓 Start date: August 2026
We’re partnering with a well-known media organisation to appoint a Senior People Manager to join their established People team on a 14 month maternity cover contract.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment and enjoys being truly hands-on across employee relations and manager coaching.
Supporting a large Editorial client group of circa 960 employees, you’ll work closely with stakeholders up to Managing Editor level, partnering with leaders on a broad range of complex and high-volume ER matters including:
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- Coaching and upskilling managers
- Managing challenging stakeholder conversations
- Performance and conduct cases
- Sickness and absence management
- Flexible working requests
- Day-to-day people advisory support
This role is heavily ER focused and relationship-led, with a real focus on BAU people support rather than project work.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Strong experience managing complex, high-volume ER cases
- Confidence influencing and coaching senior stakeholders
- Previous exposure within Media environments
- A calm, pragmatic and solutions-focused approach
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Experience supporting fast paced creative populations and/or working within unionised environments would be highly advantageous, although flexibility can be shown here.
Must be happy to travel into the central London office 3 days.
We’re particularly interested in speaking with individuals who may be:
- Coming to the end of a contract in June and able to start in July
- Those happy to move into a FTC to work within an exciting well known Media brand
For a confidential discussion, please get in touch directly.
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