Manager, People Advisory
Sportradar is looking for a Manager, People Advisory to act as a key partner within the people team. This role involves collaborating with divisional partners and centres of excellence to drive change and ensure smooth operational cooperation. The position serves as a local subject matter expert for employee relations, compliance, and HR policy implementation.
Beyond operational duties, the Manager, People Advisory is responsible for local onboarding and offboarding processes, benefits administration, and the execution of engagement, CSR, and diversity initiatives. The role requires a proactive approach to fostering company culture and supporting the professional development of employees in a fast-paced, office-first environment.
- Ensure smooth cooperation with the Divisional People Partners, Centre of Excellences (CoEs) and People Operations; input to processes and ways of working where applicable; actively drive change in the people teams.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to scout and build relationships with local stakeholders for recruitment.
- Collaborates with People Counsel team when needed.
- Serve as a point of contact and county subject matter expert for employee relations matters, including conflict resolution, disciplinary actions, and grievances.
- Provide guidance to managers and employees on HR policies, procedures, and employment laws to ensure compliance and maintain positive employee relations.
- Is responsible to onboard and offboard physically any new employee on location, working closely with line manager, talent acquisition team and responsible divisional partner.
- Stay up to date on country, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
- Ensure HR policies, procedures, and practices are following relevant legislation.
- Partner with Compliance and Risk to ensure employee data integrity as well as relevant trainings are implemented.
- Stay responsible for Health and Safety compliance requirements, building up competencies locally.
- Support grievances and investigations management.
- Partner with the local Functional Leaders to understand, translate business needs into the relevant actions when comes to people, culture and organization, including local values activation plans.
- Drives engagement, CSR and DEI activities locally.
- Implement initiatives to enhance employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
- Partner with Unit People Partner to gather employee insights and address areas for improvement.
- Identify ways to engage on-site and remote employees.
- Partner with the Divisional People Partners and the CoEs.
- Oversee the administration of employee benefits programs, including health insurance, retirement plans, and other fringe benefits.
- Work closely with benefits vendors and brokers and people operations team.
- Upon request collaborate with the learning and development team, support the local trainings and relevant programs to enhance employee skills and capabilities delivery.
- Collaborate with the Country People Advisory Manager when needed.
- Bachelor degree in HRM or related field, or experience equivalent (required)
- Minimum of 2 years of progressive HR experience (required)
- Sound knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations specific to the country (required)
- Customer in centricity, high-level communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills (required)
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment (required)
- Proficiency in HRIS systems, Microsoft Office Suite, and other relevant HR software applications (required)
- Proficiency in Excel (required)
- English fluent (required)
- Additional languages considered a plus (nice-to-have)
- A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world including various social events and teambuilding.
- Flexibility to manage your workday and tasks with autonomy.
- A balance of structure and autonomy to tackle your daily tasks.
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups which welcome all participants.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme.
- Calm and Reulay app (leading well-being apps designed to support focus, quality rest, mindfulness, and long-term mental resilience).
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.