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Join Field as a People Operations Manager and play a pivotal role in accelerating renewable energy infrastructure to reach net zero.
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Salary £75000 - £90000
Location Field, Fora Montacute Yards
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Field, a company focused on building renewable energy infrastructure, particularly battery storage, is seeking a People Operations Manager. The company has ambitious plans to play a defining role in Europe's clean energy sector. As a People Operations Manager, you'll take on a diverse range of tasks aimed at improving the efficiency of people processes and building on the company's robust cultural foundation.
Role Summary:
- Partner with different team leads in understanding their needs and implementing effective solutions.
- Handle employee relations issues and optimise people processes across countries.
- Monitor team health, wellbeing, and performance, implementing interventions as needed.
- Perform salary benchmarking and payroll submissions, and review the benefits package.
- Lead or contribute to various upcoming projects like implementation of new performance feedback tools, HRIS upgrade, and review of role levels matrix.
Role Requirements:
- Ability to diagnose issues using data.
- Ruthless ability to prioritise impactful tasks.
- Possession of strong presentation skills.
- Efficient multitasker with a knack for managing multiple projects.
- Clear communication and storytelling skills.
- Experience in people operations or HR generalist role within a dynamic environment.
You will be offered a competitive compensation package, including participation in an employee share scheme. Other benefits include professional development funding, private medical cover, enhanced parental leave, regular team events and more.
People Operations Manager
Department: Strategy & Operations
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK - London
Compensation: £75,000 - £90,000 / year
Description
A bit about Field
At Field, we’re accelerating the build out of renewable energy infrastructure to reach net zero. We are starting with battery storage, storing up energy for when it’s needed most to create a more reliable, flexible and greener grid. At Field, we will show that batteries are a totally viable part of our energy infrastructure - now, not in some distant future.
We have ambitious plans to become the defining new clean energy player in Europe over the next few years, gradually expanding beyond batteries into new asset types.
Your mission
This is a new role, created to help us continue to provide a best in class service to our growing team. The focus of this role will be on problem solving and implementing solutions that improve the efficiency of our people processes, while continuing to build on our amazing culture.
We’ve built a strong foundation so far, and we’re looking for someone with strong analytical skills and a ruthless ability to prioritise for impact to help us level up.
This role would suit someone with strong people operations or HR generalist experience gained within a dynamic, fast changing and culture-driven environment. If you’ve only ever worked for large corporate businesses this isn’t going to be the place for you - we need people who thrive on solving new problems every day and who are energised by finding new and better ways of working.
Key Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
This is a broad and varied role with the opportunity to have massive impact. Key responsibilities include:
Process + Efficiency
- Partner with team leads to understand what they need from the people team to make them able to deliver more effectively in their roles - diagnose issues, shape hypotheses, implement solutions and monitor their effectiveness / how to optimise
- Create new frameworks and toolkits for our team leads and Fielders as the need arises - helping us to mature as the business grows, without becoming too process driven or corporate in our approach
- Support team leads and their teams through ad hoc employee relations issues, including performance concerns, flexible working adjustments, absence concerns, disciplinary issues, etc
- Reviewing and optimising our people processes across countries, with a focus on consistent and high quality employee experience in all locations, balanced with efficient processes that scale effectively over time
- Attend events and proactively building a network of peers to help us stay attuned to sector specific challenges and trends, bringing back suggestions to help develop our thinking and improve our ways of working
Performance + Recognition
- Partner with the Employee Experience Manager and our Senior Leadership Team to monitor overall team health, wellbeing and performance, shaping interventions to increase these and demonstrating material positive gains over time
- Partner with teams to review and update existing career maps, ensuring competency breakdowns remain current and accurately reflect the skills needed across the business
- Support team leads and Fielders in the creation of impactful development plans, designed to help align individual development ambitions with current and future business needs
- Design initiatives, processes and tools designed to help promote and active feedback culture
Reward
- Complete salary benchmarking exercises to ensure we’re always paying competitively and can continue to attract the top talent
- Collate and submit the monthly payroll submission to our external partner, ensuring changes are reflected in our HRIS and employee files
- Conduct periodic reviews of our benefits offering in each location, ensuring we remain competitive and that we’re responding to employee feedback promptly and transparently
Upcoming projects that you’ll have the opportunity to lead or contribute to:
- Implementation of a new performance and feedback tool (currently being selected), with a specific focus on the performance feedback and development planning tools
HRIS upgrade tender process - we need to level up from our current system and implement a tool that fosters greater autonomy for our teams and offers better long term scaleability- Review and improve our role levels matrix to make sure it continues to be fit for purpose for the business as we grow - help us to map this against external data sources like salary surveys and employee
- Review and update our Reward Philosophy - help us to think through how we balance local legislative requirements and cultural norms, against the wish to have a consistent and harmonious employee experience between teams
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
A bit about you
These are some of the things that you’ll need to have to be successful (and enjoy it!) here:
- the ability to use data and feedback to diagnose issues, shape hypotheses and define reasonable proposals which balance a number of factors (culture, brand, cost, scalability, etc)
- a ruthless ability to prioritise for impact - it isn’t always obvious what needs to be done first, so you’ll need to be a clear, analytical thinker who thrives on bringing order to chaos
strong presentation skills with the confidence to get buy in from senior stakeholders - you shape compelling, commercial, culturally aligned proposals that are logically presented and help guide your audience to clear outcomes- the ability to deliver through others - you motivate others to take action by by shaping clear, actionable plans and demonstrating the value of your contribution
- you pride yourself on working efficiently, with a raft of examples up your sleeve which show how you’ve increased your impact over your career
- a gifted plate-spinner - you like being involved in multiple projects at once and get a buzz from juggling a few different operational tasks in tandem
- a clear communicator with an ability to wield the power of storytelling to influence others towards collaborative decisions
Job Benefits
Package details
Salary: £75,000 - £90,000
We’re offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business. You’ll be awarded shares when you join, which will vest over four years - and as the business grows in size and value, so will your shares!
We’re offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business. You’ll be awarded shares when you join, which will vest over four years - and as the business grows in size and value, so will your shares!
We value our team’s wellbeing and belonging so we invest approx £5,000 a year on a range of perks, benefits and wellbeing activities, including regular team socials and events.
Other benefits include
- Up to 10% Company wide bonus based on company performance
- Hybrid working (blend of home and office working to suit individual needs)
- £2,000 per year to spend on your professional development
- Private medical cover with Bupa from day one with the option to add family members.
- Company Pension with 8% Contribution
- Enhanced parental leave, for all new parents:
- 6 months fully paid primary carer leave
- 3 months fully paid secondary carer leave
- 10 days fully paid leave for fertility treatment
- Fun co-working office space in Shoreditch, London
- 1 month work from anywhere, for those with a travel bug
- 1 day green leave to do something good for the environment
- free lunch once a week - a great way to get to know people in the wider team
- dog friendly office, feel free to bring your pooch along
- Spill: our mental health benefit allowing every Fielder access to equal and unrestricted therapy and resources
- Regular, optional team socials designed to be inclusive for everyone (not just the pub goers!)
- Birthday carbon offset: a gift from Field to the world to celebrate your birthday
The skills you’ll need
- Strong and demonstrable experience in either a global investment bank, infrastructure fund, PE growth fund, corporate finance boutique, or in-house corporate development team
- Experience managing large fundraises (equity and debt)
- Experience managing multiple transactions (from opportunity evaluation, through due diligence, deal negotiation, execution, and final integration strategy)
- Team management experience in Corporate Development role or similar. Running an initial team of 2 people
- Energy and infrastructure experience, with BESS experience being an advantage
A bit about Field
Field is an international builder, owner, and operator of renewable infrastructure. Founded by a successful entrepreneur, we have robust BESS project pipelines across the UK, Italy, Spain, and Germany, backed by a recent £200 million investment from DIF Capital Partners. Our mission is to grow internationally and develop a strong global BESS portfolio.
We are an eclectic team with diverse backgrounds, from scaling billion-dollar tech startups to building energy companies and specializing in energy markets. You'll work with fun, curious, entrepreneurial people making a real impact. We're proving batteries are a viable energy solution now. Our ambitious plans include becoming Europe's leading clean energy player and expanding beyond batteries into new assets
Our Values
Work for the team - We are friendly and approachable. We make time for each other, value diverse perspectives, and learn and grow together.
Do it right - We prioritise doing things right, never cutting corners. Safety comes first, and we consider our impact on communities and the environment. We act with integrity always.
Move fast - We’re doers. We take responsibility, deliver on promises, and get things done. FAST.
Know your stuff - We’re curious self-starters, always learning, adapting, and improving. No question is too small. We own our growth.
Read more about our values at www.field.energy
Love the sound of Field but not sure this role is right for you? Have a look at our careers page and register your CV. We are always interested in candidates who have exposure to BESS and work within the Renewable Energy space. We’d love to hear from you
Equality, Diversity & inclusion
Diverse teams make better teams. Field is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which is as representative as possible of our society. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender expression, marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy/maternity status, race, nationality, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We published a blog discussing our findings and learnings from our first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion survey in March 2023 which you can read here.
Still not convinced? See what our current team think about working here to find out why you should join us!
