General Manager HR, Sky News

**What’s the role?**

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer of Sky News, you will be responsible for developing and delivering the People Plan to deliver the Sky News business strategy. This role has a matrix reporting line to the Chief People Officer of News Corp Australia from a HR functional perspective.

You will support Sky News executives and their leaders to:

- Create capability,
- Ensure operating models are optimised,
- Embed people cyclical activities and people strategies and
- Ensure the required culture is in place to achieve business success.

You will be accountable for building trusted advisor relationships with Sky News key talent, on-air presenters and reporters in order to deliver engaging and informative content that rate well.

Based in Macquarie Park, NSW as an active member of the executive team, you will provide expertise and support in organisational design, employee relations, operating models, safety (including supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our people) and leadership effectiveness.

You will deliver a tailored, highly effective and efficient HR service and support for the Sky News business by working closely with NCA’s HR Operations and Centres of Excellence teams (Employee Relations, Capability & Culture, Health, Safety & Security and Performance & Rewards).

**What you will deliver and how**:

- Design and deliver people plan that will help Sky News achieve its Strategy and provide advice on how to improve performance, engagement and culture.
- Workplace Health Safety & Security - manage risks - eg pandemic, health and wellbeing initiatives, managing threats and security issues.
- Bring an external perspective on global and industry people trends to Sky News executive team to prepare their business areas for the future.
- Be the trusted advisor, coach, team and organisational dynamics practitioner to the Sky News executive and leadership team.
- Continuously examine, identify and improve the systemic dynamics at work.
- Ensures remuneration and benefits are benchmarked and aligned to the market in order to attract and retain the right people.
- Deliver and embed performance and development practices to improve productivity and overall business performance by ensuring a ‘people performance review’ cadence.
- Establish strong internal working relationships within and outside of News Corp Australia HR team to enable the provision of best practice technical HR advice of operating model design, operating rhythms, workforce planning to support and improve the business.
- Ensure Compliance knowledge and training conducted across Sky News as appropriate.
- Seek feedback from and respond to Executive and Senior Leaders on the effectiveness of the HR Manager function.
- Financial _
- Manage to budget or less.
- Have a cost focussed mindset and thoughtfully recommend funds to be spent.
- Continue to look for costs to be saved by operating differently.
- People: _
- Operate as a strong contributor to the Sky News Executive and News Corp HR leadership teams, and role model desired behaviours.
- Take shared leadership accountability of the health, effectiveness and performance of the whole HR function.
- Create and promote a safety, mental health and wellbeing culture by role modelling safe workplace practices and the identifying workplace risk.

**The skills you will need**:

- Strong influencing skills with the ability to connect with and manage high profile Talent and executives with Sky News
- Excellent, clear communicator - written and verbal
- Demonstrated proactive leader stakeholder management
- Excellent judgement, pragmatism, detailed focused and action oriented
- Extensive HR generalist technical skills
- Experience in organisational development practices and methodologies
- Coaching and team effectiveness facilitation
- Ability to navigate through high volumes of work and prioritise the right work to focus on
- Credibility in a business environment, with a commercial understanding and knowledge of creating value
- High level of resilience, and able to manage and mitigate resistance
- Inspirational, trustworthy and dependable
- Working knowledge of Awards (BREA knowledge not essential)
- Proactive in seeking and acting on feedback on personal performance and leadership style
- Role modelling of Sky News values

**The experience you will have**:

- Worked as an integral member of a business executive and leadership team member of HR
- Thrived in a fast-paced, complex organisation
- Led organisational transformation initiatives and designing and delivering the people initiatives
- Exceptional at building relationships and influencing stakeholders
- Strong project management skills

**News Benefits**

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

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