# Temporary People Business Partner

**Company**: UnitedMasters, Inc.
**Location**: Brooklyn, NY
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: ~$3,000 per week
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are an award-winning independent creative solutions company that aspires to be the most culturally-influential company in the world. We help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges.

You will step into a senior, embedded PBP seat as the day-to-day people advisor to our agency leadership team while our PBP is on leave. This is not a placeholder role: you will be in the room for leadership decisions, bring a clear point of view on talent, performance and organizational questions, and handle difficult conversations with confidence. You will also own a live performance review cycle from calibration through delivery.

**Responsibilities**

- Senior leader partnership

- Serve as the day-to-day people advisor to the agency leadership team and their departments

- Contribute to the Senior Leadership Team agenda, which meets twice a week, in partnership with our VP of Agency Operations

- Drive progress on the agency leadership OKRs (our “big rocks”) as part of an agency-wide push, owning the people priorities and partnering closely with Finance and Operations where people, headcount and financial goals are tightly linked

- Employee relations

- Proactively manage and resolve employee relations issues, from coaching conversations through performance plans and exits

- Guide managers through hard conversations and deliver difficult messages directly when needed

- Ensure compliance with company policies, and escalate to leadership and counsel appropriately

- Talent and planning

- Stay close to the business to spot talent and skills gaps early, and plan full-time, temp and freelance needs hand in hand with Operations and Finance

- Advise on org design, workforce planning and headcount, and surface internal mobility and succession opportunities in critical roles

- Partner with Talent Acquisition, and external search partners for priority roles, to keep a steady pipeline and fill roles fast with the right talent

- Keep leaders informed on pipeline and hiring progress, so teams know when help is on the way

- Lead onboarding for incoming agency leadership hires, setting them up to build relationships and get up to speed quickly

- Core people programs

- Help lead the Q1 performance review cycle across the agency, advising leaders on ratings, talent decisions and how to deliver feedback

- Facilitate calibration sessions with leaders, partnering with our VP of People Operations to challenge ratings and hold the bar

- Support compensation decisions tied to the review cycle, ensuring internal equity and clear rationale

- Support planning for the annual engagement survey, including question review and rollout timing

- Continuity

- Keep a weekly update log covering decisions, open issues and next steps

- Partner closely with People Operations on processing people changes and with our UnitedMasters PBP on cross-company matters

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**

- Strong coaching/ consulting capabilities

- Demonstrated business acumen, organization savvy, judgment and decision making

- Collaborative style; positive can-do attitude. A team player with a strong drive to create a positive work environment

- Excellent stakeholder management skills including ability to engage, influence and keep informed

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyze data, understand trends and develop recommendations for action based on the analysis

- Excellent communication skills – a strong verbal communicator and writer; ability to frame a message

- Demonstrated change management capability

- 5+ years as an HR or People Business Partner supporting senior leaders

- Experience working across multiple business functions with first line and senior leadership

- Proven ability to handle employee relations matters across the spectrum, including performance plans and exits

- Confidence leading hard conversations with managers, employees and executives

- Ability to ramp quickly, work from existing plans, and make sound calls with limited history

- Strong judgment, discretion and written communication

## Skills

### Required
- coaching
- consulting
- business acumen
- organization savvy
- judgment
- decision making
- stakeholder management
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- communication skills
- change management

### Nice to have
- advertising agency experience
- creative talent
- creative leadership
- compensation planning
- career ladders
- talent differentiation tools
- executive onboarding
- leadership transitions

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