Director, HR Business Partner

Overview

A division of Publicis Groupe, Publicis Digital Experience is a network of top-tier agencies designed to develop capabilities and solutions to enable growth and provide scaled access to the digital capabilities of Publicis Groupe in service of our clients. Together, the Publicis Digital Experience portfolio endeavors to create value at the intersection of technology and experiences to connect brands and people.

Our model to transform every brand experience will help clients navigate, develop, and activate commerce in a way that will provide them with a future-proof model for modern marketing. With our unique expertise in consumer engagement, CRM, and commerce, Publicis Digital Experience powers brands and empowers people in a new era of creativity. An ever-changing landscape and the need for fluid thinking is just part of our problem-solving nature.

Which means we re untethered from any specific medium or method—we go where ideas will work best. We are an expanding network with more than 5,000 employees, with agency brands throughout our global offices. Publicis Digital Experience brands include Razorfish, Digitas, Arc Worldwide, Saatchi Saatchi X, Plowshare, 3

Share, and the Publicis Commerce Exchange.

Overview:
The ideal candidate will be a subject matter expert in the HR domain and will partner with HR colleagues and leaders to develop insights and implement people priorities.

• Be a subject matter expert in the HR domain.
• Partner with HR colleagues and leaders to develop insights and implement people priorities.
• Have insight into key organization, commercial and value drivers and the impact on people plans and solutions.
• Lead organization-wide programs focused on delivering initiatives that drive employee engagement.
• Partner with team and line management and ensure fairness and equity across the organization in the implementation of HR policies and programs.
• You will partner with HR CoE’s on various projects as they arise.
• This may include: HRIS, performance management, enterprise-wide management/leadership initiatives, succession planning, diversity & internal communications.
• Talent & Performance Management Lead and address talent and performance management efforts at the business unit level.
• Help create and maintain a high-performance culture by assisting with ongoing change, restructuring the organization as necessary, delivering programs that reward and recognize key employee capabilities, behaviors and performance.
• Implement and manage the business unit succession planning process and methodology, ensuring integration across other critical people processes.
• Act as a talent broker ensuring movement of talent to build individual and organizational capability.
• Challenge managers and leaders to adopt a performance-driven culture underpinned by strong performance management capability.

• Anchor the employee engagement efforts for the business unit.
• Devise and implement timely and practical interventions by drawing critical insights from the employee engagement survey.
• Drive and implements engagement initiatives through outlining key drivers of engagement and their link to organizational performance.

• Coach and build capability of managers to be effective people leaders.
• Influence managers/leaders to role model organizational values and behavioral expectations.

• Develop & implement plans to effectively resolve people/organizational issues as they arise.
• Manage and resolve ER issues through effective and objective investigation processes, ensuring adherence to appropriate employment laws and Epsilon policies.
• Develop comprehensive guidance for managers and leaders on ER issues and take the lead on resolving complex ER issues that create significant risk to the organization.

• Be future-focused, inquisitive and open-minded; seek out evolving and innovative ways to add value while demonstrating the ability to analyze and understand data and information quickly.
• Use information, insights and knowledge in a structured way to identify options, make recommendations and make robust, defendable decisions.
• Be prepared to…