Description
Are you motivated by empowering people to do the best work of their careers? Do you have experience of turning a People strategy into long-term, positive impact in a scale-up environment? Are you a team player who can influence the most senior roles in an organisation, as well as individual contributors? Can you bring a combination of empathy and rigour to your work, and role model this in your day to day interactions with employees?
The impact you will have:
Key Responsibilities
What you will do:
- Set vision and develop and contribute to strategic People projects and initiatives to enable the team to deliver an incredible people journey for our Elliptites;
- Lead the hiring process, including identifying recruitment needs, selecting bar-raiser candidates, making offers and onboarding;
- Work with managers to identify development needs and to facilitate the implementation of a learning offering that enhances individual and business performance;
- Support all employees, offering independent confidential advice with regards to employee relations issues;
- Partner with managers on all development and performance processes, such as the Annual Performance Process, Development Conversations and Annual Comp Review, to support them and to ensure they are conducted efficiently, providing assistance on performance issues when necessary;
- Understand all aspects of Elliptic’s compensation philosophy and act as a first point of contact for managers’ questions related to compensation and benefits;
- Provide employee metrics to stakeholders, as required, and supporting decision making;
- Embed and pro-actively live and promote our values and behaviours across our global teams;
- Role model giving and receiving feedback in a direct and empathetic way;
- Mentor other People Partners in the team to support their partnering skills and development.
- Are passionate by making the workplace an amazing field for growth and development and enjoy working in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Our ideal candidate has:
- Commercial acumen: has the ability to think strategically and has a good understanding of the business context, including strategy and goals, challenges, organisational performance, and commercial and financial processes in order to make sound business decisions
- Client focus: consistently aims to meet and exceed client expectations, challenges the appropriate priority, goes out of their way to resolve issues, remaining objective and fair, with a win/win approach to resolution
- Facilitating/managing change: proactive agent of change with a results orientation and personal drive to bring initiatives to a conclusion. Partners with stakeholders to identify needs (strategy, dependencies, implications, timelines, success measures) and supports the business in achieving change
- Courageous challenge: comfortable to empathetically raise difficult topics and challenge stakeholders, leaders and managers as needed
- Decision making: demonstrates sound common sense, has the ability to use consistent logic, exhibits sound judgement and is able to weigh up options and put a business case forward
- Resourcefulness: finds ways to overcome barriers, is innovative and open to new ways of doing things, builds an informal network of contacts and information sources, and uses these together with influencing skills to deliver
- 2 to 3 years as a People Director, ideally in a tech and international environment
- Industry knowledge
Benefits
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
- LinkedIn Learning subscription.
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 Crypto for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme