About the Role:
As a People Advisor at OMD EMEA, you’ll support employees and managers across everything from inductions, flexible working, wellbeing, and employee relations cases to delivering internal training and engagement projects. You’ll manage ER processes, coordinate learning programmes, and keep our policies sharp and up to date. If you’re organised, solutions-focused, and excited to make a real impact in a fast-paced, people-first environment, this is your chance to help our teams thrive
We’re looking for an experienced and highly organised People Advisor who’s passionate about delivering a brilliant service in a fast-paced media agency environment.
At OMD EMEA, we champion the employee experience and lead transformation — empowering growth, celebrating excellence, and driving success. We’re big on career development, internal mobility, learning, and engagement, always pushing for progress and setting the bar high.
In this role, you’ll provide hands-on people support across the full employee lifecycle and across all our business units. You’ll work closely with the operational side of the People team to deliver efficient, effective business partnering while helping to enhance the overall employee experience.
Our People team is all about creating an environment where everyone can thrive through fresh thinking and solutions-focused approaches. We believe that by working together, we’ll achieve great things.
Your day-to-day:
Employee relations (ER)
- Provide clear advice, coaching, and training to managers and employees across a range of people policies – including maternity, absence, flexible working, parental leave, performance management, discipline, and grievance processes.
- Manage employee relations (ER) cases – such as grievances, disciplinaries, absence management, and wellbeing – escalating more complex matters to the Business Partner when needed.
- Regularly review and develop people policies and procedures, recommending updates to keep us fully aligned with the latest employment law and best practice.
- Support the Business Partners with key annual processes, including performance and talent management activities.
- Making sure all first-day right-to-work checks are completed accurately and on time, keeping us fully compliant with legal requirements.
Employee engagement:
- Deliver new joiner inductions to help make sure everyone settles in smoothly and feels part of the OMD EMEA team from day one.
- Create quarterly insight reports for the Business based on key insights from onboarding and offboarding employee feedback.
- Working on People Team projects that boost employee engagement, wellbeing, and inclusion across the business.
Learning & Development (L&D)
- Coordinate internal and external training programmes, making sure everything runs smoothly and on time.
- Keep our learning and development trackers up to date, helping us stay on top of all training activity.
- Deliver and develop internal training sessions that meet the needs of the business and help our people grow.
Other
- Actively participating in Agency and network wide initiatives.
- Work alongside senior HR team members to co-lead and deliver presentations as required.
- Ad-hoc support for the wider People Team as required.
Attributes, Skills, and Behaviours:
- A fresh perspective and a drive to keep improving — you’re always looking for new and better ways of doing things, celebrating small wins every day, and leading with care, respect, and openness.
- A solution-focused, service-minded approach, always working in a timely and efficient way.
- Solid experience in generalist HR, ideally in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong knowledge of best practice HR processes, procedures, and UK employment law.
- A collaborative mindset – you’ll work closely with the wider People team and be confident using an HRIS (ideally SuccessFactors). Being tech-savvy with Microsoft Office 365 (and bonus points if you know your way around SharePoint and Power Automate).
- An approachable and engaging style – you’re comfortable building relationships across all levels of the agency.
- Great communication skills, with the confidence to present people updates to both the People team and the wider business when needed.
About the Agency:
At OMD EMEA, we strive to deliver on our promise of ‘better decisions, faster‘ for our clients, partners and all 6,000+ OMDers across our region every day. As part of the world’s largest media network, our business is staging experiences for consumers who have more choice and less attention than ever before. The key to the process is empathy. Empathy to see the world through the eyes of the consumer, to recognise the needs of our clients and to identify aspirations of our talent.
Learn Fast, Act Fast. To help navigate the road to a ‘new normal’, learning from, and acting upon data signals at scale and speed is crucial. Visit Why OMD? to learn more about our unique Act Fast Framework.
Our working pattern for colleagues is to be present in the office three days a week at our offices in London with the other days available to work remotely. Let us know if you have any questions about our working pattern as part of your application and interview process.
Flexible Working
At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG
At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.
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