People Business Partner in London

Songtradr is the world’s largest B2B music technology company, offering end-to-end music licensing, rights management, and direct-to-fan solutions. Through strategic acquisitions like MassiveMusic and Bandcamp, Songtradr empowers music creators and enables brands to connect with audiences through the power of music.

The People Business Partner plays a critical role in enabling Songtradr’s teams to thrive by providing thoughtful, strategic, commercial, and data-informed people guidance. This role is focused on defining and aligning people capabilities to meet the organisation's objectives.

The People Business Partner reports to the Director, People Business Partnering, and will work directly with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deeply understand the business context, commercial targets, goals, and strategic drivers. Working with the wider people team, they collaborate to develop and implement people solutions that align and enable both long and short-term business goals, are commercially sustainable, and enable our people to flourish.

The successful candidate will operate as a consultant and facilitator, building outstanding relationships globally across Songtradr, using data to support decision-making, and taking a solutions-based approach that moves the function from transactional to integrated and essential to the business.

• Strategic Partnership & Challenge
  • Act as a Strategic Enabler: Work closely with senior business leaders to assess, influence, and develop people solutions that help enhance our culture, are commercially sustainable, and elevate employee engagement.
  • Organisational Health & Design: Partner with leaders and Talent and Development on organisational design, workforce planning, and team development across regions, ensuring people practices connect to high performance and successful business outcomes.
  • Strategic Road Mapping: Develop a roadmap (in collaboration with the wider People Team) for people solutions that align with and help shape the overall business strategy, with a focus on measurable impact.
  • Influence & Challenge: Lead with integrity and courage by challenging the business and its leaders using data, facts, commercial acumen, and evidence to drive effective decision-making and enhance the overarching employee experience.
  • Change Management: Guide and execute the people side of change management efforts during major restructures, M&A activity, significant process shifts, or leadership transitions.
• Employee/Manager Partnering
  • Manager Coaching & Consulting: Providing ad-hoc, individual coaching to people managers on team dynamics, giving necessary feedback, and navigating internal organisational structures.
  • Employee Relations: Providing daily, hands-on guidance to managers to resolve complex employee issues, including grievances, disciplinary matters, and performance improvement plans, ensuring fair and consistent application of policy.
  • Policy Interpretation: Being the first point of contact for employees and managers to clarify and apply people policies consistently across different regions.
  • Global Compliance Monitoring: Staying up to date on specific employment laws and regulations in key operating countries and advising the business on necessary changes.
  • Offboarding & Exit Interviews: Conducting and analysing exit interviews to capture actionable feedback on retention drivers and organisational health, and share these insights with business leaders and the wider people team.
• Insight Generation & Data Driven Alignment
  • Evidence-Based Practice: Use and apply people data and metrics to generate insight and inform strategic decision-making, proactively surfacing actionable insights related to people priorities and future workforce needs.
  • Co-create Solutions: Work closely with business leaders and CoEs to co-create solutions that increase efficiencies and drive business value.
  • Coaching: Coach stakeholders on team effectiveness, communication, and decision-making to enhance business outcomes.
  • Digital/AI Strategy: Assess the impact of new technologies on job roles and responsibilities, and in collaboration with Talent and Development, identify any skills gaps or required development strategies.
• Global Program Leadership & Alignment
  • Global Program Stewardship: Lead or contribute to critical global People programs such as compensation cycles, succession planning, and performance management reviews, in addition to other relevant project work.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with the wider People team, Centers of Excellence (COEs), to shape initiatives around policy, L&D, and total rewards, ensuring alignment with the needs of the business unit.
  • Consistent Execution: Execute people programs and core lifecycle processes consistently in alignment with global standards, with a key focus on Managing Everyday Performance.
  • Compliance & Values: Ensure compliance with regional labour laws whilst embodying and promoting Songtradr values and priorities.

• Experience in a similar People Business Partner or HR Generalist role, preferably within a globally distributed, high-growth environment.
• Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Deep capability in understanding Songtradr’s business model, its strategic drivers, and underlying financials at depth, to connect people practices to business outcomes, demonstrating the commercial value and ROI of People initiatives.
• Data Driven Insight: Proven hands-on experience using HRIS tools, data, metrics, and evidence to generate insight, inform strategic decision-making, and measure the impact of solutions.
• Challenge & Influence: Demonstrate ability to advise, influence, and challenge leaders constructively, using facts and evidence to get to the root of people and business issues.
• Relationship Building: Expertise in building meaningful, collaborative relationships across diverse functions and geographies to break down internal silos and drive productive working.
• Global Execution & Compliance: Strong knowledge of employment practices globally, and the ability to navigate diverse regional cultures.
• Consulting and Commercial Mindset: Proactive, solutions-focused approach with strong prioritisation and project ownership, with a curious and commercial mind, to act as a facilitator and business consultant to tailor people solutions to business needs.
• Certifications: Professional HR qualifications preferred but not essential.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with attention to detail, confidentiality, and the ability to articulate complex strategies clearly.

Our Three Core Values

• Lead with Music – We champion creativity by putting artists, brands and fans first, balancing artistic integrity with bold commercial ambition.
• Perform as One Band – United by purpose and trust. We aim high, knowing that collaboration, community, and doing it for the right reasons drives success for everyone.
• Own Your Voice – We listen deeply and speak honestly. We value time, welcome diverse perspectives, and keep the rhythm of open, transparent communication alive.

Employment: Full time. What do you get in return? Inspiration, knowledge, career development, on top of our financial package. You’ll also be working with an international bunch of remarkable musically-infused individuals.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Songtradr is an equal opportunities employer. Applicants will not be excluded on the grounds of sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race, marital status, diversity of thought, disability, age, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. If you need any specific adjustments throughout our recruitment process, please let us know.

If this role appears perfect for you, apply via the link and include your resume and a brief summary of the professional achievement you are most proud of to date. We look forward to hearing from you!