Website ISTARI
Company
ISTARI
Location
Hybrid – London
Job Title
Director Human Resources Operations
About the Job
Location: W1 North Audley Street
Work Type: Hybrid (2-3 days in the office/week)
Reporting Line: Chief People Officer
Key accountabilities:
- Business partnering: with CEO and leadership team globally to deliver high quality HR support and guidance on the full suite of people and organisational-related topics.
- HR Budget and payroll: ownership of ~18M USD payroll costs and ~500K non-payroll budget. Driving close partnership with Finance team to ensure cost control and optimisation. Ownership of monthly payroll and relationship owner for payroll provider(s) and Employer of Record.
- Hiring and onboarding: lead on recruitment at all levels of the company globally whilst continuing to improve hiring practices and decision-making. Oversight of employee onboarding partnering with hiring managers to ensure optimal experience.
- Performance management and employee relations: driving effective performance management process and handling ER cases (investigations, grievances etc., if needed), leading on restructuring including redundancies, dismissals and settlements.
- Policies, practices and process improvement: continuous improvement of policies, practices and processes in line with business needs and company priorities.
- Compliance, audit and GDPR: member of Risk Committee, ensure support for compliant and robust organisation that is GDPR compliant and cyber-secure. Oversight of and accountability for auditing, as needed.
- Culture and employee value proposition: continue to strengthen company culture and employee value proposition through various initiatives and projects including compensation and benefits, wellbeing etc.
- Line management: of HR Admin and team assistants
Expected Outcomes:
- Leadership team members supported with pragmatic and timely operational support combined with senior-level HR advice and expertise as needed
- HR budget control, cost management and compliance as needed to support the business and to ensure organisational resilience
- Ongoing definition of our employee value proposition particularly (but not only) through the lens of reward, recognition and wellbeing that supports our vision and mission
- Employee engagement, talent attraction and retention through our holistic employee value proposition and culture
Candidate profile, essential skills and experience:
- HR generalist with expertise (~15 years’) in comp & ben, org design and change/project management
- Global HR experience across Asia Pac, EMEA and Americas
- A self-starter who can thrive in an evolving start-up environment
- A good level of resilience, comfortable working with ambiguity and keen to problem-solve
- Able to build credibility quickly with senior leaders internally and external stakeholders e.g. Temasek, PDG team etc.
- Trust-worthy, empathetic, tuned-in to organisational and individuals’ needs – experience in building organisational cultures and practices
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