🚨 Brand New Opportunity: HR Manager – Creative Industry
đź“Ť London (Hybrid: 3 days in office)
💼 Standalone role | £55–60k per annum
🗓️ Start date: July (with flexibility)
Saisei Talent are delighted to be exclusively partnering with one of the world’s most imaginative and people-driven creative agencies to find their next HR Manager.
This is a business in the thick of creative brilliance, cultural evolution, and bold transformation.
Fresh off the back of a recent acquisition, the London office - 50-strong and fiercely collaborative, needs a hands-on, heart-led HRBP to help bring two businesses and two cultures together.
You’ll be leading the charge on everything from systems integration to performance transformation, embedding a people-first experience that reflects the agency’s big ambitions.
Reporting to the SVP HR in NYC and working closely with a brilliant London leadership team, you’ll help shape what great looks like from the ground up.
🔧 What you’ll be doing:
🧩 Integration & Systems
Lead the UK migration to our global HRIS (UKG), including data accuracy, training and adoption
Standardise contracts, benefits, and HR processes across both legacy and acquired teams
Align onboarding/offboarding processes and manage documentation to ensure compliance and consistency
Own and maintain all employee records and data reporting
🤝 Employee Relations & Compliance
Be the go-to person for employee queries and first-line support on ER issues
Manage and advise on conflict resolution, redundancies, grievances, and performance concerns
Ensure compliance with UK employment law, contract changes and upcoming UK employment legislation updates.
Partner closely with leadership to balance legacy practices with emerging standards
🎯 Performance & Culture
Consolidate two performance systems into one consistent, feedback-led framework
Coach and support managers through development conversations and reviews
Keep culture front and centre, helping to preserve what’s unique in both teams while building one cohesive employee experience
Run engagement initiatives, employee surveys and interpret feedback into action
🧲 Recruitment & Talent
Lead low-volume, high-impact hiring across creative, operational and strategic roles
Manage job specs, sourcing, candidate experience and onboarding
Advise on inclusive hiring practices that reflect the agency’s values and pace
💡 Who we’re looking for:
✔️ Solid background in HR, with experience in a standalone or generalist HRBP role
✔️ Proven experience navigating change, ambiguity, and integration
✔️ Strong knowledge of UK employment law, contracts and compliance
✔️ Skilled across the employee lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, payroll support, ER, performance
✔️ Familiar with HR systems - UKG experience is a bonus
✔️ Brilliant communicator, calm under pressure, and credible with both creatives and leadership
✔️ Someone who “gets” the creative world, its energy, informality, and fast pace
This is your chance to lead with heart and head and to shape a people experience where creativity and culture thrive together. If that sounds like your kind of role, we’d love to hear from you.
Contact me for more information and a confidential chat: amanda@saiseitalent.com
Saisei Talent are an equal opportunity agency and will consider all applications.
We are dedicated to hiring diverse talent and ensuring that we treat you with respect and support throughout the interview process. We strive to include diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in our everyday work, and we commit to using these for our business and for all our Clients & Candidates.
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