HRBP

We are looking for a HRBP to join our Fantastic People operations team at Jagex!
You will work with a talented and newly shaped HR team in a business partner capacity. This is a real opportunity to bring your experience to the table as we drive toward positive change. Working closely with the leaders across the business, this is a role for someone who embraces change and can build strong, positive relationships, as well as helping the teams to navigate the future growth of the Company. This role will be focused on delivering value to the business through operational and strategic HR initiatives in support of our growth plans and company objectives.  This will be achieved through a relentless focus on our people, operational excellence and a commercial approach, ideally enhanced by an understanding and awareness of industry specific business challenges. The opportunity would suit someone who brings experiences already gained at ‘business partner’ level, looking for further progression longer term with a great company, great brand and within a highly creative, fast paced environment.

What you'll be doing...

• Developing strong relationships across the business and embed HR within the internal client teams.
• Consulting with line management, providing expert input across a range of HR issues, designing and delivering high impact solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Driving consistency of approach across Jagex in attracting, maintaining and developing talent to support current/future organisational needs.
• Coaching and building the capability of line managers, to enable them to anticipate and pre-empt organisational or team issues.
• Participating in relevant projects, helping to lead and champion, as appropriate, the Jagex plans to become an Employer of Choice.
• Providing day to day performance management guidance to senior management, challenges negative behaviours.
• Working closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale and increase productivity and retention.
• Assisting with compensation discussions, setting guidelines for promotions or out of cycle salary increases for own client group.
• Identifying training needs for their own client groups and works with L&D to increase skills sets and efficiencies within the teams.
• Using people data and information to analyse trends and develop solutions, programs and policies to tackle these effectively.
• Be an ambassador for the HR function and Jagex, representing it internally and externally.
• Acting as a mentor to junior members of the HR team, supporting the development of HR overall. 

What we're looking for...

• Demonstrates integrity, resilience and the ability to work independently
• Demonstrable experience establishing credibility and respect and ability to build strong working relationships with stakeholders and peers through team work, collaboration and consultation.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a strong working knowledge of employment law and can apply this in a commercially focused and pragmatic fashion.
• Strong change management and organisation development skills and experience would be advantageous.
• Ability to understand business priorities and adapt HR plans quickly, presenting pragmatic solutions to new situations as they arise.
• Commercially aware and able to apply understanding of company finances to push back and support managers to resource, develop and manage their teams.
• Able to remain calm, focused and make sensible decisions in a fast paced, ambiguous environment
• Ability to interpret and create meaningful HR Analytics to drive business decisions
• Excellent attention to detail
• CIPD Qualified (desirable, but not essential)

Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for