People Business Partner in London

Footballco is a global, football focused, digital platform with an ambition to own the entire non‐live football landscape worldwide and become THE digital destination for all football fans across the globe. Combining some of the most forward‐thinking minds in football, an award‐winning creative and production function, as well as digital platforms that are loved by 400m fans globally, FC aims to own the digital fan ecosystem across the world's biggest sport. With 300 permanent employees across the world, FC is a diverse, disruptive, brave, dynamic, agile and fun organisation. Our work‐hard, play‐hard attitude supports these values – with the football fan always front of mind, leveraging a world class tech platform and our track record of being first to market. We connect fans to football and brands to fans, come join us and be a part of it!

About the Role

We're looking for a commercially aware and culturally driven People Business Partner to support our fast‐paced, creative, and globally connected business. Reporting to the EVP People, you will partner with leaders and managers to bring our People Strategy to life across the organisation. Working at the heart of a dynamic media and sports environment, you'll help build high‐performing teams, embed our values, and create a culture where creativity, accountability, and collaboration thrive. This is a hands‐on role that blends strategic input with operational delivery. You'll operate across the full employee lifecycle while supporting initiatives spanning Wellbeing, DE&I, Talent, Reward, and Performance.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with leaders and managers to deliver people plans that support ambitious growth and evolving business priorities.
• Help define and embed our company values, ensuring they show up in how we hire, develop, recognise, and manage performance.
• Coach managers to build engaged, high‐performing teams.
• Lead and manage employee relations matters with confidence and sound judgement, balancing commercial awareness with fairness.
• Drive performance review cycles and goal‐setting processes that promote clarity, ownership, and impact.
• Support organisational change, growth, and team evolution as the business scales and adapts.
• Ensure HR policies and practices are applied consistently and in line with employment legislation.
• Contribute to wellbeing and DE&I initiatives that reflect the diversity of our audiences and industry.

What you have

• Solid experience in a People Business Partner role, ideally within media, sports, entertainment, tech, or another fast‐moving creative industry.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law (international exposure a plus).
• Proven experience managing employee relations cases independently.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‐paced, evolving, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Strong stakeholder skills with the ability to build credibility quickly.
• Commercial awareness — understanding how people decisions impact delivery, content output, and growth.
• Highly organised and solutions‐focused, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Confident communicator with strong emotional intelligence.

Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.