Jobs at Bertelsmann

The Associate HR Business Partner will deliver HR projects and support organisational change, restructures, process improvement, workforce planning, employee engagement, and people strategy across multiple UK sites. The role partners with operational leaders, uses HR data and reporting to guide decisions, and supports consistent implementation across Slough, Corby, and Birmingham. Responsibilities include stakeholder engagement, business transformation, succession planning, and improving employee experience and operational performance.

Supports routine and lower-risk technology contracts across software, SaaS, cloud services, digital platforms, and IT services. Responsibilities include drafting and reviewing contracts, managing matters through approval and signature, coordinating with Technology and Procurement teams, conducting legal research, preparing summaries, maintaining records, and escalating complex issues to a Technology Lawyer.

Leads Fremantle UK’s AI vision, strategy, governance, innovation pipeline, and adoption across content production and corporate functions. The role identifies and scales AI use cases, sponsors pilots, protects creative integrity and intellectual property, advises executives, manages investment and partnerships, and develops the AI team and champion network. Success requires balancing creative ambition with legal, ethical, commercial, operational, and production realities while enabling responsible experimentation and measurable business value.

Lead Penguin Random House UK's media rights business by identifying book adaptation opportunities across film, television, and theatre. Negotiate rights deals and auctions, advise on acquisitions, collaborate with legal and editorial teams, manage stakeholders and authors, and build relationships across the entertainment industry. The role requires strong commercial judgment, copyright and rights expertise, negotiation ability, and an established industry network. Occasional international travel is required.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, Snowflake data models, integrations, automation, and data quality controls for DK and PRH. Support BI reporting with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, manage CI/CD, monitoring, documentation, governance, and incident resolution. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to translate requirements into secure, reliable data solutions, while contributing to technical reviews, continuous improvement, and data engineering best practices.

Sell and negotiate translation rights across Portugal, Brazil, South Korea, and Japan. Manage auctions, options, contracts, deal administration, market research, and publisher relationships. Represent titles at meetings, bookfairs, author events, and sales trips, while developing market strategies and revenue targets. Collaborate with editorial and senior rights teams, deputise for a divisional rights specialist, and support junior team development.

Lead the SAP Basis function and oversee an offshore support team. Install, configure, upgrade, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot SAP HANA and related SAP environments. Manage backups, recovery, disaster recovery, transports, client administration, technical changes, and system upgrades. Maintain documentation, resolve complex issues, provide management updates, mentor team members, and support on-call go-live and upgrade activities.

Lead Ebury Smart’s non-fiction publishing hub, setting strategy, commissioning commercially successful books, acquiring standout authors and ideas, and managing a talented team. The role requires strong editorial and commercial judgment, influential relationships with authors and agents, and collaboration across editorial, marketing, and publicity to deliver culture-shaping publications. The position is a 12-month fixed-term parental-leave contract with hybrid working in the UK.

Coordinates Fremantle’s AI productivity adoption programme across back-office functions. Responsibilities include gathering needs, maintaining an ideas and automation register, coordinating working groups, tracking adoption and time savings, managing champion networks, scheduling training, communicating updates, and escalating risks or delays. The role supports workflow improvements and change initiatives without requiring a technical background.

Lead SAP solution architecture for Penguin Random House UK's S/4HANA migration and integrated application landscape. Design resilient RESTful and OData APIs through SAP BTP, establish API-led integration standards, and translate business requirements into sustainable technical solutions. Own architecture quality, risk mitigation, technical acceptance criteria, and transitional designs while partnering with SAP, Finance, Technology, project, and business stakeholders. Provide trusted technical leadership across a complex transformation programme.

Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data pipelines integrating social, advertising, audience, platform, content, performance, and revenue data. Owns YouTube and Meta pipelines, ensuring reconciled finance-grade outputs. Develops analytics-ready datasets with BigQuery and dbt, maintains data quality, governance, monitoring, documentation, and security, and supports BI reporting. Collaborates with analysts and stakeholders to model data, automate processes, resolve issues, and adapt pipelines to changing APIs and schemas.

Design and lead children’s fiction and YA book projects from concept through print-ready files. Commission and art direct illustrators, develop creative concepts, manage schedules and budgets, and collaborate with editorial, production, sales, rights, marketing, and publicity teams. The role requires strong commercial awareness, advanced technical design and print-production expertise, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple projects while delivering high-quality work on schedule.

Design and govern scalable cloud data architecture, pipelines, models, and migration strategies, including moving legacy solutions to Snowflake. Partner with engineering, analytics, data science, and business teams to support Power BI, machine learning, data governance, security, GDPR compliance, and strategic platform development.

Leads global AI engagement and communications across Fremantle, building awareness, trust, literacy, and sustained adoption. Owns operating model communications, executive updates, storytelling, campaigns, leadership engagement, champion networks, training materials, governance messaging, and regional success sharing. The role translates AI capabilities into practical communications, coordinates information across global forums, identifies adoption blockers, tracks engagement metrics, and supports scaling approved tools and local use cases across regions.

Supports production accountants with purchase orders, invoices, vendor setup, petty cash, floats, credit cards, journals, reconciliations, and finance reporting. Manages Soldo wallets and cards, production cost codes, month-end reports, expenditure controls, sales invoices, bank accounts, and production close-down activities. May independently manage finance responsibilities for small productions and provide support across varying production locations and schedules.

Leads Fremantle’s international Production AI network, identifying creative AI opportunities across television and film development and production teams. Builds relationships across territories, connects teams with relevant expertise, shares insights and case studies, organizes demonstrations and forums, and presents AI applications at international events. The role coordinates with central AI, deployment, productivity, procurement, governance, technical, and legal teams while influencing stakeholders and respecting local ownership.

Drive new business and revenue growth for digital-first branded entertainment. Build relationships with brands and agencies, secure briefs, develop commercial propositions, shape budgets and partnerships, and lead pitches. Identify opportunities across Fremantle IP, creators, YouTube, social platforms and emerging digital formats while coordinating creative, production, commercial and talent teams to deliver compelling branded content partnerships.

Manage music copyright clearances, licensing, rights records, cue sheets, contract documentation, and compliance across television productions and digital platforms. Liaise with labels, publishers, collecting societies, composers, producers, broadcasters, and distributors; negotiate routine licences; monitor restrictions and expirations; support budgets, audits, reporting, and rights-management improvements. Advise production teams on copyright risks and assist legal colleagues with music-related commissioning and streamer agreements.