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This role as People Strategy Manager means that you'll collaborate daily with dedicated business groups and work with the group’s senior leadership direct reports to identify the People's needs and to develop strategies to achieve goals. These may include talent and retention, employee performance and development, and other organizational objectives. This Manager must possess strong business acumen and have the capability to work across all levels of the People “stack” - strategic, operational, tactical, and exercising influence across levels and teams. Reporting to the Global VP, People Strategy.
This role is fixed term (9 months) to cover a temporary leave.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Global VP of People Strategy to support senior leadership to understand their goals and develop strategies to support them, optimizing relationships with HR teams, People Operations, Talent Discovery, Finance, Legal, and other teams.
- Partner with SVP & VP level across Marketing Services for a clear understanding of company programs, policies, trainings and more.
- Support Global VP of People Strategy with bonus and merit calibrations.
- Provide timely information and/or education for all levels of a company on people-related issues.
- Provide data and reporting to Global VP of People Strategy for analysis and strategic design
- Support execution of people strategies and design approaches for diagnosing and enhancing organizational and operational effectiveness and employee satisfaction.
- Support core HR processes across products (performance calibration, compensation cycle, promotions).
- Partner with the Operations to coordinate initiatives across Marketing Services.
- An expert on compensation practices, including compensation, performance feedback, performance calibration, and career transitions.
- Act as People Strategy Workday expert to support company wide projects such as Job Architecture, Advanced Comp Merit, organizational changes, etc.
Experience you already have:
- 5-7 years of experience in the human resources discipline
- Demonstrated project management experience
- Demonstrated experience in various HR functional areas, especially organization development, change management, strategic workforce planning, and employee development.
- Clearly articulated business acumen
- Knowledge of Financial operations and impact to business operations
- Ability to set specific, measurable goals, monitor progress closely, plan ahead and link activities to business priorities
- Ability to respond quickly to changes in the business environment and deal with ambiguity
- Some experience with merger and acquisition
- Advanced Excel and/or Google Sheets skills
- Workday is a strong plus
Preferred:
- Demonstrated analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Critical thinker with success in developing innovative solutions to business issues.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Demonstrated credibility and integrity in communications to ensure information flows upward and downward.
- Ability to listen and understand the needs of the employees, together with those of the company.
- Ability to stylistically adapt communication based on audience.
- High integrity/will stop at nothing to safeguard compliance standards and company values
- COE background, i.e., Analytics, Compensation, HRIS, HR Ops.
- Ability to manage multiple, complex issues and prioritize projects concurrently
- Use knowledge of the business strategy or the ability to probe for required understanding of business strategy/context in order to properly align solutions or problem-solving approaches.
- Provide solutions that effectively incorporate global context and support necessary collaboration across org/geo boundaries.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
