Senior People Partner (Tech)

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The Role

We have an exciting opportunity within the People Team for a Senior People Partner (Technology) reporting to the Head of People. This is a true generalist role and will partner with our Tech Senior Leaders to create a culture where colleagues feel inspired to be their very best.

Over the next 18 months we are planning to expand Tech from 200 to 400+ people. You will co-create the People Plan with our Technology Leadership Team. You will be responsible for organisation development, business partnering, employee relations and coaching and advising the management teams across Technology. To put this into context, our total workforce is likely to more than double over the next 18-24 months and potentially grow even bigger!

To be successful in this role, you will need to be curious, good at building trust within the team and brave at times to challenge the norm. This is an exciting and challenging role and is not for the faint hearted. There is a requirement for continued delivery, driving the people's agenda and implementing scalable solutions which can flex and grow as fast as Gousto.

Core Responsibilities:

• Translate business strategy into People Plans in partnership with the Tech Leadership Team to create a culture where outstanding talent thrives.
• Act as a trusted business advisor by building relationships with the leaders and colleagues within Technology.
• Encourage a culture of continuous feedback, providing ER advice and supporting the performance management process.
• Coach managers on developing their teams, building capability and identifying talent.
• Support on the development of career paths to open up opportunities in the team and help colleagues take greater control of their career.
• Facilitate the talent cycle and encourage the internal movement of colleagues for their development
• Facilitate any engagement strategies, playing a supporting role in action planning.
• Build an inclusive culture enabling each individual to be the best they can be.
• Coach managers on the reward principles and ensuring pay is fair, consistent and in line with budget.
• Ensure structures and headcount adhere to OD principles and support any changes to organisation design.
• Use data, metrics and internal/external trends to provide leaders with insights to inform business decisions, organisational structure and targeted initiatives..
• Live our ownership principles, always acting with integrity and due diligence.
• Comfortable using and working with data to build business cases and drive solutions and improvements.

Requirements

Who you are:

• You will have significant generalist HR business partnering experience supporting a Technology function, in a high growth Technology environment
• Experience working across a matrix organisation
• Experience working with senior management and leadership teams
• Demonstrable project and stakeholder management skills and experience
• Ability to have challenging conversations
• Experience of gaining clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing and negotiating
• Team orientated at all times, with excellent interpersonal skills, down to earth and fun to work with.
• You need to be able to work at pace and comfortable with ambiguity
• You will have the drive, energy, intellect, commercial acumen and passion to form great relationships across the business
• Data led and able to work with complex metrics and drive improvements
• Experience of implementing pay and reward frameworks
• Enjoy working in a fast paced entrepreneurial culture that demands a great deal from its people.
• Gousto is a technology business and therefore a passion for tech and the ability to communicate and relate to a digital environment is essential.

Benefits

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Role: Senior People Partner (Technology)

Location: London HQ - At Gousto we are passionate about flexible working so the opportunity to work from home is part of what we do

Equal opportunities

Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto.

We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.

Go Gousto!