Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.
Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.
Job Details
Why Join Us?
At Kantar Media, you will pay a pivotal role in shaping the future of work across the business. You will join a collaborative, innovative HR team where your expertise will directly influence organisational growth, leadership capability, and cultural transformation. This is an opportunity to make a measurable impact in a dynamic, global environment.
Role Overview
As HR Director, you will serve as a strategic leader and enabler on all people matters across Europe while also contributing to projects across Kantar Media as required. Partnering with Finance Business Partners, Centers of Expertise (COEs), and a team of HRBPs, you will shape and execute people strategies that translate business challenges into impactful initiatives.
This role requires mature approach, transformation experience, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. You will partner with senior stakeholders to drive organizational organisational design, workforce planning, and cultural change, while enabling HRBPs to deliver at pace and with impact. Collaboration across geographies and functions is critical, ensuring best practices are shared and more standardized standardised approaches are embedded across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as a senior HR leader, setting direction on people priorities for Europe in alignment with global strategy.
* Partner with, and coach HRBPs to ensure consistent delivery of people plans and high-quality support to business leaders.
* Represent HR at the Media Division leadership level in Europe.
* Provide strategic advice and counsel to senior leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, and cultural transformation.
* Manage relationships with Works Councils and other employee representative bodies, ensuring compliance and effective engagement.
* Use HR and financial data to provide insights that shape workforce planning, capability development, and decision-making.
* Drive major transformation and change programs, building organisational capability and ensuring stakeholder alignment.
* Oversee the resolution of complex employee relations (ER) matters, ensuring fair and commercially sound outcomes.
* Lead cyclical performance activities (e.g., pay review, bonus, goal setting), ensuring process consistency and coaching leaders on effective delivery.
* Partner with COEs to strengthen talent management, leadership development, and succession planning across the region.
* Role-model collaborative working across regions and functions to drive smarter, standardised ways of working.
Your Profile
We Are Seeking a Senior HR Leader With Proven Experience In Complex, Global Environments Who Can Combine Strategic Thinking With Operational Delivery. The Successful Candidate Will Bring
* Significant HR leadership experience in a complex, matrixed, multinational organization.
* Strong track record of leading transformation and organizational design.
* Professional maturity with the ability to influence, challenge, and coach senior stakeholders.
* Proven success in partnering with and enabling HRBPs to deliver impactful people solutions.
* Commercial acumen with the ability to link people strategy to business performance.
* Strong analytical skills, using data and evidence to inform decisions.
* Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders and employee representatives.
* Resilience with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing immediate priorities with long-term goals.
Country
United Kingdom
Why join Kantar?
We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.