Omnicom Media
People Advisor
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Omnicom Media
Job Function
People and Culture
Job Subfunction
People and Culture Business Partner and Generalist
Job Description
People Advisor
Location: London
Contract: 12-month fixed-term contract
About Omnicom Media
Omnicom Media is a global media network designed for growth, bringing together specialist talent, technology and capabilities to help some of the world’s leading brands succeed. Globally, we have more than 40,000 people working across over 70 markets and 150 cities.
In the UK, our network includes multiple agencies and specialist services, creating a broad range of opportunities for our people across London, Manchester and Newcastle. We are committed to building an inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued, people can be themselves and everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
About The Role
We’re looking for a People Advisor to join our team and help deliver a positive and consistent employee experience across the organisation.
Working closely with managers, employees and colleagues across the wider People Team, you’ll provide practical advice and support throughout the employee lifecycle. You’ll help ensure that our people processes, policies and initiatives are delivered fairly, consistently and effectively.
This is a varied, hands-on role with the opportunity to build strong relationships across the business, develop your advisory experience and contribute to wider People initiatives across our agencies.
What you’ll do
People advice and employee relations
- Provide first-line people advice and guidance to managers and employees.
- Support employee relations matters, escalating more complex cases appropriately.
- Help ensure people policies and procedures are applied fairly and consistently.
- Support managers with absence, probation, performance and flexible working processes.
Employee lifecycle and people operations
- Manage employee lifecycle activities, ensuring administration and documentation are accurate and completed on time.
- Work closely with People Operations to deliver efficient and compliant people processes.
- Support people reporting, data accuracy and the development of employee lifecycle insights.
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Recruitment, talent and development
- Support recruitment activity, onboarding and internal mobility.
- Assist with performance, learning, talent, engagement and development initiatives.
- Support the delivery of agency and group-wide People programmes and priorities.
Connected People Team
- Work flexibly across agencies to support changing business priorities and team resilience.
- Build collaborative relationships across the wider People Team.
- Share knowledge and best practice with colleagues.
- Contribute to group-wide initiatives, projects and continuous improvement activities.
About You
You’ll enjoy working with people and providing clear, practical support to managers and employees. You’ll be comfortable building relationships, managing competing priorities and taking ownership of your work.
You’ll combine good judgement and attention to detail with a collaborative approach. You’ll know when to resolve something independently and when an issue needs to be escalated, always handling sensitive matters with appropriate care and confidentiality.
We’re Looking For Someone With
- Experience in a People Advisor, HR Advisor, HR Coordinator or similar role.
- A good understanding of UK employment law and HR processes.
- Confidence providing first-line advice and guidance to managers and employees.
- Strong organisation and attention to detail.
- The ability to manage sensitive and confidential matters appropriately.
- Strong relationship-building and collaborative working skills.
- A willingness to take ownership and follow through on commitments.
- Sound judgement and an understanding of when to escalate more complex issues.
- A practical, solutions-focused approach and an interest in continuous improvement.
- CIPD qualification, or progress towards qualification.
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Why join us?
At Omnicom Media, careers are built around community, impact and opportunity. You’ll join a connected People Team, work with colleagues and managers across a diverse agency network and gain experience across a broad range of people matters.
This is an opportunity to develop your advisory experience while contributing to a positive employee experience and helping our businesses deliver their people priorities.
If you’re a practical and collaborative People Advisor who enjoys supporting others, building relationships and making things work effectively, we’d love to hear from you.
Our commitment to inclusion
Omnicom Media is committed to providing an inclusive environment where people can bring their true selves to work, different voices are valued and everyone can thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and value the talent, expertise, experience and perspective each person brings.
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice/
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