HR Business Partner (must have worked with ad/marketing agency)

We at Magnon Group are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Human Resources Business Partner to join our team. As an HR Business Partner, you will act as a strategic partner to the agency's leadership and management teams. Your primary responsibility will be to align business objectives with employees and management in designated business units. You will serve as a consultant to management on human resource-related issues, acting as an employee champion and change agent. This role requires a deep understanding of the advertising industry, people-centric strategies, and talent management in a fast-paced, creative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the agency leadership to understand business goals and translate them into effective HR strategies and initiatives.
• Provide strategic workforce planning to meet the agency's short-term and long-term talent needs.
• Partner with leadership to identify talent gaps and develop targeted recruitment and retention strategies.
• Support career development and succession planning initiatives within the agency.
• Drive employee engagement and development programs to foster growth and creativity.
• Coordinate performance management processes, ensuring timely appraisals, constructive feedback, and goal alignment.
• Act as a trusted advisor and confidant to employees and managers on all HR-related issues, including conflict resolution, employee grievances, and disciplinary actions.
• Use HR data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of HR programs and provide insights to leadership for decision-making.
• Prepare regular reports on workforce metrics, turnover, employee satisfaction, and other KPIs.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
• 6-9 years in performance management, employee engagement, training management, and organizational development, within advertising or media agencies.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize competing demands.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.

Desired Attributes

• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• High emotional intelligence and confidentiality.
• Ability to thrive in a creative, dynamic, and fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative team player who values diversity and inclusion.

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Note - this is a Full-Time Consultant role.

Magnon is among the largest advertising, digital, and marketing-performance agency-groups in India. A part of the Fortune 200 global media corporation - Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), Magnon employs over 400 professionals across its offices in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. With three award-winning agencies, namely magnon designory, Omnicom Production India, and magnon sancus, the Group offers three-sixty-degree marketing solutions, including advertising, digital, social, creative production, media, localization, linguistics, and marketing solutions outsourcing labs, for top global and Indian clients. Magnon works with some of the biggest brands in the world, across five continents, including several Global 500 companies. Magnon Group is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

To know more about us, please visit www.magnongroup.com