People Partner - Paris

About TEAM LEWIS

TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency that has grown from start-up to multi-national in a little over two decades. Its success is due to a combination of factors: talented creatives delivering award winning campaigns; expanding client relationships into new markets or services; its independence from outside investors. The agency, its people and client campaigns have won many awards, including Cannes Lions, PRovoke Media, ICCO, European Excellence, PRCA Digital, Digital Impact, Global Digital Excellence.

At the heart of the business is the TEAM LEWIS Foundation (TLF), a non-profit charitable entity. Since its launch in 2021, it has funded over 2,700 causes. The TLF promotes a wide variety of social, cultural, and environmental causes that benefit society. It aims to strengthen the bonds between the creative industries, businesses, government, and non-profits. Community charities are championed by employees who, in addition to the financial donation, volunteer their time and skills to maximize the grants’ effectiveness.

Purpose of the role

TEAM LEWIS is seeking a People Partner to join our Paris office. This is an exciting opportunity for HR professionals and recruiters who are eager to broaden their experience into a generalist HR role. You will play a key part in shaping the employee experience, supporting our people strategy, and ensuring smooth HR operations for our French team. We welcome candidates who are proactive, eager to learn, and able to work independently, regardless of whether you come from a traditional HR or recruitment background.

Key responsibilities

HR Business Partnering

• Maintain knowledge and analyse trends in compensation and benefits, best practices, regulatory changes and new technologies in human resources, talent management and employment law.

• Provide an effective and dedicated HR advisory service in relation to employee relations matters; manage issues through to resolution

• Anticipate and investigate people related issues and report on findings with recommendations, taking into account best practice, law, policies and precedent, coach and support management accordingly.

Employee relations

• Provide an effective and dedicated HR advisory service in relation to employee relations matters; manage issues through to resolution

• Anticipate and investigate people related issues and report on findings with recommendations, taking into account best practice, law, policies and precedent; coach and support management accordingly.

Talent management

• Scale up and refine our people experience to ensure best practices are implemented and establish a great employee journey.

• Input to and roll-out talent initiatives created with the global talent team

• Promote and help nurture an excellent culture – help identify areas that require improvement, making recommendations and actioning accordingly

• Work on people programs to drive employee engagement and inspire a high performance work culture with employee satisfaction

• Work closely with the regional & global HR team to ensure all internal initiatives are managed and implemented accordingly.

• Advise on and monitor/assess salary levels, rewards and benefits in relation to the industry.

On-boarding

• Manages the induction process (including relevant documentation) for all new starters in France, ensuring a smooth induction into TEAM LEWIS

• Sends out reminders to line managers for mid and end probationary reviews, flagging any concerns to the HR team

• Responds to probation period queries in a timely manner, escalating to the broader HR team, where necessary

• Collate responses and organise face to face check in meetings where necessary, flagging any concerns to the HR team

Employee engagement

• Oversee (with continual review and enhancement of) the on-boarding and induction process for all new starters, ensuring a smooth introduction to TEAM LEWIS

• Ensure regular feedback sessions with new and existing team members to proactively recommend areas of improvement and ensure consistent engagement

• Review benefits - make recommendations accordingly to ensure competitiveness

• Contribute to, and roll-out, engagement initiatives created with the global HR team

• Promote and help nurture an excellent culture – help identify areas that require improvement, making recommendations and actioning accordingly

Reporting, operations, and analysis

• Identify useful ad-hoc reports and/or analysis to help drive people related programmes

• Be a super-user on the dedicated HR platform with full administrative capabilities; review the system for improvements and ensure that it is being used to its full capacity

• Ensure regular audits of the server files and HR platform to ensure that all documentation is present and that information is accurate.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with French labor laws, collective agreements, and company policies

• Monitor changes in employment legislation and proactively update policies and practices

• Manage works council (CSE) relationships and negotiations as required

General

• Supports the Global HR team on initiatives and projects

• Works with the HR team to review and update recruitment policies and procedures

• Provides up-to-date management information and global monthly recruitment reporting

• Regularly attends LEWIS training sessions to enhance skills and develop knowledge

• Day-to-day, ad hoc and project administrative duties

• Ensures all record keeping is complete, up to date and accurate

• Promotes and helps nurture an excellent culture and be an ambassador for the LEWIS brand
  

About you

• Minimum 3 years' experience in HR, people management or recruitment.

• Strong HR generalist skill set – ideal if gained within an international company in a fast moving, dynamic and creative industry e.g. PR, advertising, marketing, broadcast, recruitment

• Collaborative self-starter with ideas and initiative, who is goal driven

• Proficiency in both French and English (written and spoken)

• Creative thinking/“outside the box” mindset in providing solutions and solving problems

• Well organised; ability to prioritise; attention to detail; a pragmatic approach

• Energetic, confident, charismatic, and a sense of humour! - a credible team player.

LEWIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating and fostering an environment focused on equality, empowerment and respect. We strive to create an inclusive workplace that supports and celebrates our diversity. We continue to invest in our efforts to ensure that LEWIS is a place where everyone can thrive.