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About the Role
General Index (GX) is a leading commodity benchmark provider seeking a dynamic, pragmatic Interim Head of People to support the company during a period of rapid growth and while the Head of People is on maternity leave. This role requires a generalist who can advise leadership and employees across the global team, offering variety, ownership, and relationship-building opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver the end-to-end recruitment process across all roles, levels and disciplines.
- Proactively source, headhunt and recruit talent via LinkedIn and other channels.
- Pre-screen every candidate before CVs are shared with hiring managers to ensure quality and alignment.
- Manage interviews, candidate assessment, task preparation, offer and salary negotiation, and contract creation.
- Oversee onboarding and integration of all new hires, to ensure a seamless experience.
- Own Bob data integrity and ongoing HR compliance.
- Manage the end of year performance and compensation process.
- Keep the company ahead of changing employment law obligations in all jurisdictions.
- Conduct workforce planning & headcount forecasting for FY28 in partnership with leadership, including people budgets.
- Own risk areas for People function, and sit on the risk committee.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders and department heads to influence people strategy and decision-making.
- Drive improvements in performance, engagement, culture and team effectiveness across all departments.
- Support managers and leaders with conversations and decision-making around pay, salary reviews, remuneration and employee benefits.
- Support managers with capability management, coaching and difficult conversations.
- Provide commercially focused, legally compliant HR advice to managers on all ER matters, ensuring consistency, fairness and adherence to company policy and employment law across all ER activity.
- Partner with leadership on the people implications of strategic acquisitions, including due diligence support, culture and compensation benchmarking, and integration planning for incoming teams.
- Lead HR work streams during fundraising events, including data room preparation, and readiness reviews of employment contracts and policies for investor scrutiny.
- Manage the end of year performance cycles end-to-end, whilst supporting managers with performance conversations.
Requirements
- Experience leading a People function in a high-growth startup (ideally VC-backed).
- Strong operational capability and confidence in building and improving HR processes from scratch.
- Hands-on experience with Bob (preferred) or other modern HR systems (e.g. BambooHR, Personio).
- Understanding of UK employment law; international experience (e.g., Poland, US, Singapore) is a plus.
- A people-first, detail-oriented mindset with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruitment
- Sourcing
- Headhunting
- Candidate Screening
- Interview Management
- Offer Negotiation
- Contract Creation
- Onboarding
- HR Compliance
- Performance Management
- Compensation Management
- Employment Law
- Workforce Planning
- Headcount Forecasting
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- People Strategy
- Performance Improvement
- Engagement
- Culture Development
- Team Effectiveness
- Salary Reviews
- Remuneration
- Employee Benefits
- Capability Management
- Coaching
- Difficult Conversations
- HR Advice
- Employee Relations (ER)
- Company Policy Adherence
- Strategic Acquisitions
- Due Diligence
- Culture Benchmarking
- Compensation Benchmarking
- Integration Planning
- Fundraising Support
- Data Room Preparation
- Investor Relations
- Interpersonal Skills
- Communication Skills
Location
- Central London
Work Type
- Part-time
- 3 days per week
Experience Level
- Head of People
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
About the Company
- General Index (GX) is the commodity benchmark provider based on the most data.
- We produce over ~6,000 daily energy prices - in crude oil & refined products, biofuels, hydrogen, and carbon markets.
- Our clients use our data to make critical energy & investment decisions.
- GX’s unique approach collates thousands of trades from 200 data partners and applies expert-designed algorithms based on detailed methodologies to calculate prices.
- Backed at Series A by Chalfen Ventures and 20VC, we have an experienced team with proven leadership – as well as a rapidly growing customer and partner base.
- With offices in London, Krakow, Houston, and Singapore, we're growing quickly.
Equal Opportunity
- A diversity of identity, perspective, and experience makes us stronger. We welcome you to apply to GX regardless of your background, age, gender, ethnicity, orientation, or ability.