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About the Role
This strategic, hands-on leadership role is responsible for shaping how the People function operates as Carbon Clean scales. You will lead People Operations, Reward, and Employee Engagement, ensuring the business has the necessary infrastructure, governance, insight, and employee experience to support growth, performance, and transformation. You will partner closely with senior leaders to position People as a commercially focused, data-driven business enabler.
Responsibilities
- Lead and evolve a scalable, high-performing People Operations function, ensuring efficient, accurate, and consistent delivery of core People processes.
- Own the People infrastructure, including systems, data, and reporting, maximizing the value of Deel and HiBob to enable high-quality decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to use technology, automation, and AI to simplify processes and reduce manual effort.
- Oversee the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding and bulk onboarding, ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience.
- Lead operational transformation initiatives that improve scalability and enhance the employee and manager experience.
- Design and implement reward strategies, including compensation, benefits, and incentive frameworks aligned to business goals and retention of key talent.
- Partner with Finance and senior leadership on compensation planning, benchmarking, and cost management.
- Ensure the benefits offering is competitive, cost-effective, and aligned with employee needs.
- Establish clear governance and consistency in reward decisions across the organisation.
- Own and evolve the Employee Engagement strategy, using surveys, insights, and action planning to strengthen organisational health and leadership effectiveness.
- Translate engagement and People data into meaningful insights and prioritised actions, proactively identifying risks such as attrition and cost.
- Partner with senior leaders to strengthen accountability, capability, and follow-through on key themes.
- Lead people-related aspects of M&A activity, including due diligence and integration planning, to ensure successful transitions.
- Establish scalable People governance, operational standards, and controls that support growth and compliance across our global team.
- Deputise for the SVP, People as required, providing leadership continuity.
- Lead, manage, and develop a high-performing, engaged People Operations team, collaborating closely with People Partnering and the wider People team.
Requirements
- Significant experience in People Operations, HR Shared Services, or similar, ideally within a start-up or scale-up environment.
- Proactive self-starter comfortable building and scaling HR processes, systems, and frameworks from the ground up.
- Hands-on experience with HR platforms such as Deel and HiBob.
- Strong reward expertise, including compensation, benefits, and benchmarking, with exposure to reward consultancies and tools such as WTW.
- Experience owning Employee Engagement programmes and understanding how engagement links to performance and retention.
- Supported M&A activity, including due diligence, post-merger integration, and bulk onboarding.
- Worked closely with Finance on budgets and cost management.
- Confident using data to drive decisions.
- Reported into C-suite or VP level.
- Strong experience leading and developing teams.
Skills
- People Operations
- HR Shared Services
- HR platforms (Deel, HiBob)
- Technology and AI in People operations
- Reward expertise
- Compensation
- Benefits
- Benchmarking
- Employee Engagement programmes
- M&A activity support
- Data analysis
- Budget management
- Team leadership
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- Head of People Experience
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Private Healthcare for you and your family
- Health Cash Plan
- Life insurances (Income Protection, Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover)
- Wellbeing programmes including EAP trained counsellors
- Generous company pension contribution of 5%
- Green travel schemes (Cycle to Work & Electric Car Scheme)
- Individual training budget
- Funding support towards professional qualification and memberships
About the Company
- Carbon Clean has been developing and providing carbon capture solutions since 2009.
- Global leader in industrial Carbon Capture.
- Tackling one of the world’s toughest challenges: decarbonising heavy industry.
- Fast-growing, mission-driven company with the backing of senior leadership.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe everyone Belongs @ Carbon Clean.
- We are passionate and committed to our people.
- Working in an inclusive environment where everyone belongs.
- Talent is what matters.
- Encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation and identity, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.