People & Culture Advisor – Fixed Term (12 months)

Are you an experienced People & Culture Advisor looking for your next role? Always wanted to work in a creative environment in a generalist P&C capacity?

We’re looking for a People & Culture Advisor to join us on a 12-month fixed term contract starting in the new year.

We’re Publicis Groupe, a world leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation. As a platform at the intersection of marketing and digital business transformation, driven through the alchemy of creativity and technology, Publicis Groupe is built on the Power of One. Publicis Groupe offers its clients seamless access to the expertise of its 100,000+ talents across 100+ countries globally.

In New Zealand, our powerhouse of marketing capabilities stretches across creative and media agencies including Digitas, MBM, KiwiPlates, Saatchi & Saatchi and Spark Foundry.

About the role:

This role forms part of the People Partnering team and plays a key part in delivering exceptional people experiences across the entire employee lifecycle. It works to implement key people strategy initiatives and projects, alongside providing support and advice to managers in areas such as employee relations, policy, recruitment, employee engagement, learning and development and DE&I. It involves working closely with other People Partners, alongside our P&C Central team and Centres of Excellence.

Reporting into the P&C Business Partner, this role demands strong interpersonal skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and the desire to implement innovative people solutions to our agencies.

The Advisor role will be key in setting up the people administration hub ‘P&C Central’ for the New Zealand market. Day to day you will be overseeing all P&C administration, responding to employee queries and providing employment relations advice to people managers. You’ll also be assigned a Publicis Groupe P&C project, where you’ll form part of a CREW working on innovative and interesting generalist work.


To be successful in this role, you’ll have 2-4 year’s experience in a People & Culture role (ideally in a multi-site, matrix organisation) and are confident across the whole employee lifecycle including recruitment, on-boarding, performance management, manager development, remuneration and benefits, employee relations and off-boarding.


You will have intermediate working knowledge of employment law and experience in applying this knowledge in workplace matters. Proficiency in Excel and experience with visas and immigration are highly preferred.