Senior People & Culture Advisor

Req ID: 10158879

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior People & Culture Advisor to make a meaningful impact and be part of a dynamic team. Join us in shaping the magic behind the scenes!

The Senior P&C Advisor will partner closely with the Senior P&C Partner supporting the EMEA Media Hub, delivering proactive, commercially focused people support across the EMEA Media client group, including Disney+, Ad Sales, Original Productions, and Platform Distribution.

Acting as a trusted advisor to the business, this role plays a key part in driving people and organizational outcomes across the employee lifecycle. Responsibilities span a broad range of strategic and operational priorities, including organizational design and change, workforce and headcount planning, talent management, diversity and inclusion, and culture transformation initiatives. The role will collaborate extensively with P&C colleagues across EMEA and the US to ensure a seamless, consistent, and high-quality employee experience aligned to business objectives.

To be successful, candidates will bring demonstrable experience across headcount planning and management, employee relations, talent acquisition, organizational change, and talent development. They will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a strong attention to detail and a solutions-oriented mindset.

Combining strong operational excellence with commercial acumen, the Senior P&C Advisor will deliver key people processes and employee lifecycle activities while also contributing to strategic people initiatives that support business growth, organizational effectiveness, and the continued evolution of our culture.

Please note: This role will be based in our London Hammersmith office, 4 days a week, with either Monday or Friday working from home.

Values

You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values — acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration, and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day.

What You Will Do

• Work with the Senior & P&C Business Partner to support the business client groups and key stakeholders to deliver against the TWDC business and P&C strategy.
• Support the P&C Business Partners by facilitating and coordinating the maintenance of critical information and processes including headcount management, organization charts, recruitment, ER case management, team performance, and reward. Maintaining the brilliant basics in order.
• Work with the Senior & P&C Business Partner and business leads to identify organization challenges and trends, leverage HR metrics, and develop effective P&C solutions.
• Own appropriate employee relations conversations and end-to-end processes to include long-term sick, flexible working, and performance management. Where necessary, collaborate with key stakeholders including Legal, Health & Safety, Occupational Health, and escalate as necessary to ensure appropriate resolution.
• Ensure employees and managers have a proactive and responsive contact point for HR queries and generalist advisory support, escalating as appropriate.
• Support the delivery of key P&C initiatives led by Business Partners and COEs, such as salary planning, talent planning, performance management, and organization change to ensure alignment in approach across the UK HR team.
• Pro-actively interface with the P&C Centers of Excellence to obtain specialist resources and guidance to support the integration of deliverables and business operations, including Workforce Planning, HR Operations, Talent & Growth, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Acquisition, and Employee Relations & Wellbeing.
• Proactively work with EMEA HR Business Partnering teams to maintain close collaboration across the EMEA wide Media hub.
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness in the communication, collation, and distribution of P&C correspondence.
• As a member of the P&C team, it is important that key learnings are shared within the team to ensure the team is effective and efficient. Pro-actively share knowledge/insights/external learnings to ensure the team is kept up to date and a culture of feedback that enables ongoing improvement is developed.
• Be an active member of the P&C community, building relationships across the wider team and supporting initiatives and projects as required.
• Apply commercial thinking and an understanding of the business and HR to provide pragmatic and informed HR solutions and ideas which meet both the business needs and fit with the HR agenda.