Elliptic Enterprises Ltd.
People Director

Department: People

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

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: As People Director, you will lead our People team alongside our Chief People Officer to develop and implement our People Strategy through three pillars: hiring diverse Elliptites, developing capabilities & driving performance, and enabling an environment where every Elliptite can perform at their best. You'll be responsible for identifying the most important cross-functional people challenges to solve at Elliptic, and co-create and deliver the most effective solutions with the People team and your customers (our Elliptites!).

You'll be responsible for partnering with our Managers to develop and lead the implementation of those solutions, and facilitate the achievement of company strategic objectives.

With your in-depth knowledge and understanding as a People Director, you will advise, coach and support managers with the management of informal and formal employee relations casework and change, by providing an efficient and effective, quality-driven customer-focused service, and ensuring compliance with best practice, internal policies and legislation.

As part of the Senior Leadership team, you'll lead and enable cross-functional communication, and will influence and inspire others by your engagement, passion and exemplary expertise in all things People. By building strong internal working relationships in this group, you will enable the People team and our initiatives to gain momentum across Elliptic.

You will be accountable for the People team's performance, coaching, managing and supporting the development of your direct reports of the People team across Partnering, Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development.
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.

You will be a great fit here if you:

• 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

Bonus Points for:

• 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