HR Business Partner (Part time)

Why us:

Two Point Studios sizzled into existence in the summer heat of 2016 with a goal to create amazing, deep simulation games that not only remain accessible to everyone but also don't take themselves too seriously - we call them our little people games! In 2018, our hard work came to fruition and Two Point Hospital was born into the world to much acclaim. After Hospital we had a dream of creating an entire world of these little people games within the place we call “Two Point County”, and in 2022 our latest game Two Point Campus was released. With us being a part of the Sega family, and with the success of Two Point Hospital and Two Point Campus, we’re now pushing forward with our next games to continue to make our “Two Point County” dream a reality!

Life at Two Point Studios is exactly as we believe it should be: fun, flexible and super creative! Everyone in our lovely team gets stuck in. You’ve got some awesome ideas? You can bet we want to hear them! We’re a second family here, we all look out for each other, and we love what we do, but we understand that your real family needs you too, so we aim to strike the perfect work life balance enabling you to have fun at the office and get home to your loved ones with time to spare.

The studio is based in Farnham, UK.

Why you:

You will be a CIPD-qualified HR Business Partner with considerable experience working in a technology or development organisation, with a passion about the video games industry. You will have excellent communication and relationship management skills enabling you to influence and challenge decision-making from a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Essentially, you will be process-driven and capable of independently leading, devising, and implementing new HR strategies and initiatives.

This is a part-time (3 days) role due to the size of the studio (c.50 employees) and as a Hybrid role has an expectation of at least two days per week in-office in our Farnham studio.

Responsibilities include:

Business Partnering:

• Partner with the Two Point Studios Leadership team in order to prioritise HR focus in line with studio strategy
• Engage in regular and effective communication with the Two Point Studios People Managers, and SEGA Head office HR team.
• Provide support to managers and employees around performance management, including appraisals, development plans, objective setting, and career development.
• Ensure early identification, intervention, and resolution of people challenges.
• Ensure Two Point Studios employee life cycle operations are managed impeccably (Recruitment, On & Off boarding, probation, long service, etc).
• Provide guidance to Leadership and people managers on organisational and team challenges in a compliant manner.
• Advise employees and management on policies, processes, and systems including but not limited to benefits, pensions etc.
• Champion and promote HR initiatives across the Studio.
• Identify opportunities and solutions for individual and team development needs, including training, coaching, and performance management.
• Drive diversity & inclusion initiatives.

Additional:

• Responsible for culture and employee development & wellbeing in the Studio.
• Manage employee relations activity as required and coach leadership team on ER matters and policy development.
• Understand and advise managers on relevant UK & Local Employment Law.
• Assist with ongoing review of policies and communications to ensure they are compliant and aligned with business and commercial goals across the whole company.
• Regularly review, analyse, and prepare insights based on available analytics to recommend future approaches and incentives.
• Provide coaching and guidance to studio operations team as required.
• Implement enterprise HR initiatives and advise on local considerations.
• Process improvements - assistance in identifying areas for process streamlining & drawing up process workflow documents as required.
• Updating, localising & producing copy /content for HR Communications channels.
• Development of learning & career development across the studio.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• CIPD Qualified (min level 5).
• Completer finisher able to structure own workload and manage competing priorities.
• Proven experience in resolving complex HR issues.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of organisational change.
• Knowledge and experience of UK Employment Law & HR Practices.
• The ability to influence and challenge decisions whilst building relationships.
• Experience using HRIS (Sage, PeopleSoft, Workday etc). with immaculate and logical records keeping ensuring a digital first approach
• Interest in Video Games, Video Games Development & the Games Industry is preferred but not essential.