Minimum 3 days, with flexibility
We’re looking for a highly experienced People leader to partner closely with our Founder and Executive team. This is a fractional role focused on shaping how the organisation evolves, performs and scales.
This role sits above day-to-day People team management and delivery; it is about safeguarding direction, connecting the dots and strengthening how the organisation operates to deliver results. You will bring an external, strategic lens to ensure our structures, leadership, capability and ways of working are aligned to our priorities, with a strong focus on coaching, improving organisational efficiency, operating discipline and profitability.
The Role
Your daily to-dos might look like this:
Partner with the Organisation
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Founder, MD and Exec on organisational and leadership topics
- Bring challenge and perspective to key decisions on structure, growth and capability
- Ensure the people and organisational implications of business decisions are clear and intentional
Organisational Efficiency and Operating Model
- Strengthen clarity in decision-making and accountability across the business
- Strengthen operating model, including how teams work together, and how business performance is managed
- Guide workforce planning to ensure the business is appropriately structured and resourced
Strategic Oversight and Coaching
- Work with the Talent and People leads to guide direction and priorities
- Guide existing team on complex organisational and people challenges
- Ensure strong alignment between People activity and business priorities
Leadership and Operating Discipline
- Improve clarity, accountability and pace of decision-making within Executive group
- Help embed a more KPI-driven, performance-focused way of operating
- Strengthen the business rhythm, including how priorities and performance are reviewed
Cultivate Cultural and Value-led Initiatives
- Act as the steward of the company’s values, keeping the business's unique DNA intact
- Maintain a deep intuition for the health of the organisation, providing the perspective needed to protect, pivot, or evolve in real-time
- Operationalise the "ways of working", ensuring the bridge between what is said and what is done remains authentic across the entire employee experience
- Embed and ignite our values at scale, ensuring they remain front of mind within decision making at exec level
- Significant experience in senior People, Talent or organisational leadership roles in scaling or high-growth, multichannel businesses
- Strong expertise in organisational design, workforce planning and leadership effectiveness
- Expert People thought leadership experience, shaping and guiding exec level decision making
- Creating and implementing cultural and value-led initiatives
- Commercial, pragmatic and focused on outcomes
- Comfortable operating independently in a fractional, high-impact coaching role
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