Associate HR Business Partner - News Corporation : Job Details

News Corp is a global diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers and businesses throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia and pay-TV distribution in Australia. Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom and are distributed under some of the world's most recognizable and respected brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Herald Sun, The Sun, The Times, HarperCollins Publishers, realestate.com.au, and many others.

Overview

News Corp is looking for an Associate, HR Generalist. As an HR Generalist, you will be responsible for helping to align business objectives with people solutions, and effectively navigating all of the people-related dynamics in between. You will play a key role in ensuring HR policies and practices throughout the organization fit the needs and objectives of the business and team. You will act as both a business partner as well as a hands-on generalist for the company for all things people-related. You will provide an array of strategic and tactical support for our employees to provide a best-in-class experience. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment with growth potential.

Location: Based in NYC with a hybrid working arrangement.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with recruiting team to support the operations behind open requisitions and track the status of hiring.
• Facilitate employee onboarding once they have started at the company by conducting a meet and greet and helping to resolve ad hoc queries.
• Facilitate termination process, including offboarding, exit interviews and thematic analyses of exit interviews over time.

• Assist in performance management touch points (i.e. goal setting, mid-year, promotion) by monitoring completion rates, resolving ad-hoc system/administrative issues and project managing multi-step processes.
• Support talent management processes such as succession planning, talent assessments and learning and development initiatives. Activities would include supporting talent discussions, completion of individual development plans, L+D program nominations, and more.
• Enable talent mobility efforts by determining terms of mobility assignment and executing on all operational elements to drive to completion.
• Help analyze employee engagement survey results and use data to identify themes and relevant interventions.
• Conduct research to define various organizational levels and related competencies behaviors.

• Help design or improve existing processes to create efficiencies and maximize impact. Examples include entry/exit survey data coalition, Finance Newsletter aggregation and more.

• Partner with the compensation team to price and level roles by using both internal and external benchmarking data.
• Liaise with employees who have inquiries regarding their benefits and connect them to benefits specialists via our ServiceNow case management system.

• Manage and support the resolution of employee relations issues in partnership with the Employee Relations Team.
• Maintain appropriate level of process, program, and policy knowledge in order to assist team members.

• Develop and work on employee engagement initiatives as identified (i.e. Finance Mentorship Program, HR Leadership roundtables, etc.).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• At least 3-5 years of HR Generalist experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with Workday and ServiceNow preferred.
• Experience working for a global company demonstrating adaptability and change management skills.
• Comfortable with Excel and PPT.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a proven track record of proactively analyzing situations, data, identifying employee needs, troubleshooting, and recommending appropriate solutions through to completion.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality regarding sensitive employee information.
• Intellectually curious about the HR field, recent trends, and best practices.
• High level of professionalism and integrity.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and implement creative solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

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Pay Range: 80000 – 100,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets