About the Role
The UK HR Manager drives company culture and supportive practices, working directly with the Chief People Officer on strategic company initiatives while acting as a warm-hearted confidante for UK staff. The HR Manager is responsible for HR compliance across UK Employment law and should be qualified to advise on normal People management.
This role will serve as the main point of contact for one of our UK design studios but will be part of a global HR team contributing to company-wide global initiatives.
Main Responsibilities
People Operations
- Will serve as the lead or point of contact for the local studio’s recruitment process, interviewing candidates, coordinating efforts with hiring managers, and extending offers to new candidates.
- Developing and managing individual onboarding efforts and schedules while identifying areas of improvement for employee onboarding and training.
- Provides training for new or newly promoted staff in HR systems and processes
- Looks after employee wellbeing and champions the VMI UK internally and with potential new hires.
- Serves as a confidante for employees, manages employee concerns, resolves conflicts, and manages onsite employee issues.
- Reports to the leadership team on HR issues, including ad hoc performance management, disciplinary or other action
- Leads the social committee and spearheads cultural initiatives with coordination from the support team and other studios within the organization.
- Collaborates with leadership and global Journey HR team members to develop and implement HRS strategies aligned with the organization's business objectives.
- Fosters employee engagement and implements or contributes to initiatives to foster a positive work culture and promote employee satisfaction and retention.
HR Management
- Manages onsite employee benefit plans provided by the company and serves as the first point of contact for individuals with benefits-related questions or inquiries.
- Reviews, maintains and implements the HR standards, records, policies, and benefits across the UK Entity and is responsible for ensuring the UK entity is complying with any changes in Employment law.
- Accountable for H&S compliance alongside the studio team
- Ensures adherence to all applicable employment laws and regulations.
- Manages holiday administration and communicates to team on remaining allowance
- Coordinates changes with the Finance team on all payroll changes and administration.
Reporting
- Reports to the CPO directly and communicates regularly with the Senior Leadership team
- Reports against their remit contributing to leadership/management reports
About You
Character Traits
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Approachable, flexible, and adapts well to changing priorities.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent at planning, organising, and carrying out objectives.
- Able to influence and gain the commitment of key players to proposed courses of action.
- Calm and in control when under pressure or in difficult situations.
- Ability to make things happen, perseverance.
- Highly empathetic, great emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
Experience
- Degree level or professionally qualified in relevant field
- 3+ Years experience in a similar role
Salary Pay Range
£50,000—£55,000 GBP
About Journey:
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
