Global People Partner & Org Design Lead

Hawkwood; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hawkwood is partnering with a fast-growing fintech to appoint a Senior/Lead People Partner at a pivotal stage of its international growth. You will work directly with the C-suite and senior leadership on the organisation’s most important people and organisational challenges.

Reporting to the Chief People & Legal Officer, this role starts as a senior individual contributor with one direct report, with the potential to build and scale a global People Partnering capability across markets.

Qualifications

• Senior-level People Partner experience in scaling tech groups.
• Proven ability to advise C-suite on complex organisational decisions.
• Strong organisation design and workforce planning experience.
• Experience partnering across multiple geographies and employment jurisdictions would be a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted People Partner to C-suite executives and senior leaders, providing commercially grounded advice on complex organisational and people decisions.
• Take ownership of the People Partnering agenda and help define what an effective global partnering model should look like as the business scales.
• Lead complex organisation design, restructuring and workforce planning initiatives across an evolving international organisation.
• Support leaders through difficult organisational decisions, including restructures, redundancies, role changes and broader transformation programmes.
• Strengthen performance management and organisational performance, developing pragmatic frameworks suited to a fast-moving environment.
• Lead and influence talent planning, succession, critical-role identification and leadership capability initiatives.
• Partner on reward and compensation decisions, including bonus structures, promotions and the connection between goals, performance and reward.
• Help shape leadership development, culture and broader organisational effectiveness.
• Use engagement, retention and wider People data to identify organisational health issues and make evidence-based recommendations.
• Contribute to significant cross-functional People initiatives, which may include People technology, workplace strategy and organisational change.
• Explore practical opportunities to use AI and automation to simplify People processes and improve how the organisation operates.
• Lead and develop a junior People Partner/Advisor, while helping determine how the global partnering capability should evolve.

Skills

Senior People Partner

C-suite credibility

Organisation design

Workforce planning

Leadership development

Commercial mindset

People analytics

AI in HR

Job description

Hawkwood is partnering with a fast-growing fintech to appoint a Senior/Lead People Partner at a pivotal stage of its international growth. You will work directly with the C-suite and senior leadership on the organisation’s most important people and organisational challenges.

Reporting to the Chief People & Legal Officer, this role starts as a senior individual contributor with one direct report, with the potential to build and scale a global People Partnering capability across markets.