HR Business Partner in Weybridge

Sony Europe is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to act as a trusted advisor to our Pan-European leadership teams. In this role, you’ll champion organisational design, talent strategy, and workforce planning, ensuring our people agenda delivers real business impact. You will be responsible for supporting the implementation and delivery of people agenda, program and policies defined by HR Europe Centre of Expertise (COEs) and Global HR, and with input from the People Services function for ensuring that any legal considerations are considered. You will provide daily HR guidance to leadership teams and advise on / resolve complex employee issues. Supporting leadership teams to promote and create a positive work environment while acting as a change agent and a single point of contact for HR matters within a specific business unit.

You Will

• Build strong, influential partnerships with business leaders, providing data-driven HR guidance and support.
• Act as a consultant, coach, and mentor to leadership, challenging and supporting them on business and people issues.
• Translate business needs into effective HR solutions, collaborating with Centres of Expertise to address challenges.
• Drive workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, and organisational design initiatives.
• Support and implement restructuring and change management processes, ensuring legal compliance.
• Champion talent development and mobility, encouraging growth through projects, programmes, and international assignments.
• Proactively propose and deliver initiatives to boost engagement and foster a positive organisational culture.
• Analyse HR metrics and dashboards, translating insights into actionable strategies for leadership.
• Represent HR at business meetings, ensuring alignment between people strategy and business objectives.
• Collaborate with HR colleagues across Europe to deliver consistent, innovative HR solutions.
• Ensure best practice and compliance in all HR processes, partnering closely with People Services and Centres of Expertise.
• Support leadership in interpreting employee feedback and driving action plans for continuous improvement.

You Will Bring

• Proven HR business partnering experience in a complex, multicultural corporate environment.
• Strong generalist HR foundation and graduate calibre.
• Excellent influencing, organisational, and communication skills at all levels.
• Flexible and adaptable, with a proactive, self-starting approach.
• Ability to travel occasionally throughout Europe.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in other European languages is an advantage.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture. We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about. You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique. With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale. Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.