Sr. People & Culture Partner

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

The Senior People & Culture Partner is a trusted advisor and strategic partner to business leaders and employees. The role is responsible for delivering people strategies, organisational effectiveness initiatives and employee experience solutions that support business objectives while fostering an inclusive, high-performing and values-driven culture.

The role balances strategic business partnership with hands-on delivery and works collaboratively with People & Culture Centres of Excellence and specialist teams to provide integrated people solutions.

Your Role Accountabilites

Strategic Business Partnership

• Partner with leaders to understand business priorities and translate these into people plans and initiatives.
• Provide expert advice, challenge and support on organisational, workforce and culture matters.
• Influence decision-making through commercial insight and people expertise.
• Contribute to business transformation and organisational effectiveness initiatives.

Leadership Coaching & Development

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders and managers.
• Support leadership capability development through coaching, guidance and training.
• Enable effective management of performance, development, engagement and attendance.
• Challenge constructively and support leaders through complex people decisions.

Employee Relations & Workplace Culture

• Lead and support employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent and legally compliant outcomes.
• Promote an inclusive, respectful and positive workplace culture.
• Support employee engagement, wellbeing and belonging initiatives.
• Provide guidance on employment legislation, policy application and workplace ethics.

Talent & Organisational Effectiveness

• Support talent identification, succession planning and retention strategies.
• Facilitate talent and performance discussions where appropriate.
• Partner with leaders to develop organisational capability and team effectiveness.
• Support organisational design and change activities.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Work closely with specialist People & Culture functions including Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Employee Relations, Reward, Shared Services and Legal.
• Build strong partnerships across the business to ensure seamless delivery of People & Culture services.
• Champion consistency and best practice across people processes.

Projects & Continuous Improvement

• Lead or participate in People & Culture projects and change programmes.
• Review and improve people processes and practices.
• Use data and insights to identify trends and inform recommendations.
• Prepare presentations, reports and business cases as required.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a People & Culture / HR Business Partnering role.
• Experience supporting senior leaders within a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Strong employee relations expertise and employment law knowledge.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong coaching and consulting capability.
• Commercial awareness and business acumen.
• Ability to work strategically whilst maintaining operational excellence.
• Strong project and change management capability.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Sound judgement and experience handling sensitive and confidential matters.

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.