Director, HR Entertainment & Sports Next

VERSANT, Comcast Corporation’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) planned spin-off, will be a leading independent publicly traded media company comprised of most of NBCUniversal’s cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions. Here you can: VERSANT is looking for an HR Director to join their team! The HR Director will report to the SVP, HR, Corporate. In this role, you will be the key HR partner for several functions within the SportsNext and Entertainment businesses, and will help drive HR projects that span: onboarding, rewards and recognition, performance feedback, talent attraction and development, and HR’s business impact. In the day to day, you will strategize in the areas of: organization design & integration, staffing, compensation planning, manager coaching, employee development, workforce planning and performance management. Responsibilites: Be the chief interpreter and implementer for HR policies, practices and procedures for all level of employees, looking to further the mission, values and strategic vision of the business. Champion both the employee perspective and the company needs to promote a positive, collaborative, respectful, and engaging work environment. Be a talent magnet, partnering with clients and our internal talent acquisition team, to create innovative and effective recruitment strategies seeking candidates from a diverse background and life experiences, and using exceptional candidate selection skills to build the best team for the organization. Be a project driver as needed for strategic HR team projects both local and company-wide, looking to ideate and execute programs that develop and engage our employees throughout their career life-cycle Come join us if you are: An executer – You get things done! Using strong business acumen, inciteful analytical skills, and superior process/project management skills you manage through competing priorities even with a matrixed environment A communicator with ease – You have a way with words; written and verbal Trusted counselor – You quickly gain trust and respect with anyone you come in contact with and can influence as needed, keeping a client-focused mindset A coach – You help bring the best potential out of the employees, managers, and partners you work with helping them to continue to develop and create a great place to work with one another A translator – You have vision – see the “big picture” and be able to boil it down to the appropriate HR and business strategy to make it work A self-starter – Motivated and can work with minimal guidance, finding the resources to help you out