Company description
OVERVIEW
Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals.. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.
HELPING OUR CLIENTS UNLOCK GROWTH IN THE PLATFORM WORLD
Our clients compete in the platform world, a horizontal marketplace between creators and consumers, between speakers and listeners, between buyers and sellers. To thrive in the platform world, companies must continue to innovate their products and business models. Four imperatives (1. Real Identity, 2. Dynamic, Diverse and Disruptive Creativity 3., Smart Media and 4. Direct Relationships) via our suite of world-class agencies, are necessary for modern brands to win in the platform world. At Publicis Groupe, we’ve invested in capabilities across these four imperatives our clients need to unlock growth. As the only one who can architect, build and orchestrate end to end solutions, not only do we have a proven record of building bespoke models for clients and leading expertise across all major industry categories, we are able to offer our talents more opportunities to grow and benefit from a richer learning experience. We call this Power of One. Powered by a 100,000-strong network via Marcel, our AI-based platform, we are also able to provide our clients and talents instant access to resource, knowledge for any need, any time, in any market.
THE SPIRIT OF VIVA LA DIFFERENCE
Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.
Overview
Role Overview:
As a Talent Advisor, you’ll work closely with the Talent Partner supporting to shape the future of Talent at Publicis Groupe. You will help build and foster a culture of growth and development within a matrixed environment. We are looking for a bright, articulate, resilient and motivated person to join the team.
Key responsibilities:
- Relationship Building: Working to establish a great partnership with the management population so you are seen as a trusted expert and can continue to develop our high-performance culture.
- Employee Relations: Advising and guiding managers by providing solid legally compliant advice in line with internal policies and procedures. Owning performance management, maternity, paternity adoption and parental leave processes. Supporting the Talent Partner on any restructuring or TUPE processes. Leading on first line disciplinary and grievances
- Employee Engagement: working closely with the Talent Partner to drive completion rates and action plan for employee surveys and other Groupe lead activity. Taking a lead in the awareness & communication of our performance review process (career conversations) including providing training sessions for both managers and employees
- Talent Operations support: Working collaboratively with the UK talent operations team to ensure data is up to date and employee changes are captured correctly and processed on time
- Talent Projects: Working on wider talent projects with other members of the team to deliver an aligned and joined up approach
- Data & Management Information: using our purpose-built tool to compile insights and data on starters, leavers, length of service, demographics and other relevant information to share with senior managers and leaders enabling them to make better, more informed, and objective strategic decisions. Working on data checking to ensure our data remains accurate and is reflected correctly in the system
- Employee Reward & Development: Working with the L&D partner and wider L&D team on nominations for upcoming courses. Working to deliver any required in-house sessions such as performance management. Assisting in collation of salary review information, benchmarking and responsibility for submitting where required
- Talent Attraction: working with the relevant TA partner to ensure we are attracting and hiring the best Talent in the market. Support by ensuring salaries are benchmarked appropriately and provide any information required for approvals
Experience:
- 1 to 2 years’ experience in an advisor role
- Can-do attitude with a desire to learn, develop & build on existing experience
- Have a broad understanding across multiple disciplines (e.g. Business Partnering, Engagement and L&D)
- Experience in leading (with support) on Employee Relations processes
- Ability to demonstrate good working knowledge of up-to-date UK employment law
- Experience of working in a changing and fast-paced environment preferably in a matrixed business (not essential)
- Good attention to detail, excellent organisation skills and able to multi-task and priortise workload
- Previous experience in similar industry preferred (Media, Production, Digital, Advertising, Tech) but not essential
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Additional information
Publicis Groupe has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees, full details of which are shared when you join. This includes the classics like Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical, as well as Reflection Days, Shared Parental Leave, and spans initiatives:
📖 Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).
At Publicis Groupe, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.
Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.
