About the Role
Build the people function behind one of the UK's most ambitious recruitment businesses. This is a unique opportunity to build our first people function, pulling together responsibilities into a best-in-class function built to support the next decade of growth. You'll have genuine influence over how this business scales.
Responsibilities
- Owning the full employee lifecycle, from first hello to fond farewell
- Managing ER matters and providing expert employment law guidance
- Building engagement, wellbeing and benefits strategies people genuinely feel
- Embedding our values and strengthening an award-winning culture
- Driving retention: understanding what makes people stay, succeed and do the best work of their careers
- Building transparent career pathways and development frameworks that mean something
- Coaching managers and raising leadership capability across the business
- Bringing structure, consistency and automation to people operations
- Leading culture initiatives, events and employee experience programmes
- Supporting our continued growth across the UK and US
Requirements
- Significant experience in a senior HR Generalist, People Partner or Head of People role
- Deep ER experience and real confidence with complex cases
- Strong UK employment law knowledge
- Experience of working in a global business and working with US employment law
- Experience advising senior stakeholders and coaching managers
- A genuine passion for culture, development and employee experience
- The ability to think strategically and roll your sleeves up
- CIPD qualification or the equivalent experience to match
- International employment arrangements, US exposure or visa and sponsorship know-how are extremely beneficial
- Someone who wants to build, improve and cheerfully challenge the status quo
Skills
- Employee Relations
- Employment Law
- Benefits
- Engagement
- Culture
- Development
- Retention
- Career Pathways
- Leadership Coaching
- People Operations
- Strategy
- Execution
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior HR Generalist
- People Partner
- Head of People
Education Level
- CIPD qualification or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Employee Ownership Trust with annual EOT bonus
- Hybrid working
- Real career progression
About the Company
- Joss Search is entering the most exciting chapter in its history, growing across the UK and US, launching new products and services, and transforming how the whole business works.
- We're the leading recruiter of exceptional people into Private Equity and Alternative Investment firms.
- We're an Employee Ownership Trust — when Joss wins, everyone wins.
- Back-to-back Sunday Times Best Places to Work winner.
- A culture built on ownership, development and collaboration.
