Senior People Partner - 12 Month FTC

What you’ll be doing You will work closely with the HR Director to ensure alignment with the overall Studio People objectives. This role helps to facilitate a culture of developing, coaching and influencing people across the employment lifecycle. It’s a varied and busy role with no day being the same and significant exposure. You will need to be familiar with current employment law and apply company HR policies and procedures where relevant, providing accurate advice and offer suggestions for improvement. This an excellent opportunity to practice HR in a creative and truly people focussed environment. On a day-to-day basis, you will :

• Proactively identify and drive initiatives to improve and embed management and leadership capability to positively influence the culture and support best and commercial practice in the management of people issues covering workforce planning, development, organisational effectiveness and change management. Be accountable for talent planning, succession, assessments and HR processes that drive a high performing team
• Proactively spot problems and offer solutions as well as proactively improving leadership capability, including collaborating with Learning & Development to design and deliver core people training and tailored development
• Drive positive employee engagement through proposing recommendations and partnering with Leads and Discipline Directors on creative and effective initiatives. Using insights and data to drive decision-making
• Partnering with Franchise Leadership Team to shape and define their people plans and actively contributing to the Franchise People Agenda
• Work with wider teams to support organisational design initiatives and restructures
• Proactively support the attraction, selection and hiring of high-quality talent
• Take ownership for specialist, complex and / or high-risk matters and involve the HR Director and other specialists within the wider SEGA Europe HR structure, where appropriate, to manage risk and reach effective and compliant solutions
• Ensure that Leads are involved and effectively engaged with annual and ad hoc employee processes (e.g. salary changes, promotions, leavers, contract extensions etc.
• Proactively evaluate how teams are performing to spot and address any people, process, and policy changes, to help drive constant improvements and efficiencies across the business
• Act as an equity and inclusion champion within the business, use available data to drive inclusive initiatives and ensure that all employee decisions are considered from a discrimination, diversity and inclusion perspective
• Ensure that our values are consistent with and embedded within our people processes and approach and support the business in living and embedding our values
• Support effective communication and data sharing across the business (alongside the internal Studio comms team), notifying the business of any key People updates, processes or developments
• Ensure the team’s processes and policies are commercial, best practice and compliant with data protection and other legal requirements

What we are looking for

Desirable Experience & Skills

About Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities. We are located in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.

We offer many benefits to support you and your family including :

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Note to Recruitment Agencies : SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be .