Head of People Operations

Overview

In this role you lead a 5-person People Operations team to deliver efficient, compliant employee lifecycle services in a fast-growing business. You will own operational delivery across HR processes, drive continuous improvement, and build scalable infrastructure to support rapid workforce expansion. You’ll work across stakeholders to ensure governance, payroll accuracy and data-driven insights that inform decisions. This position offers the chance to shape a growing People function within a collaborative, high-growth environment.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working with 1 day on-site

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a People Operations team of 5
• Oversee the employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding
• Drive continuous improvement across people processes, systems and data
• Ensure compliance, governance and payroll-related processes are effectively managed
• Deliver accurate people reporting and insights to support decision-making
• Build scalable solutions to support organisational growth

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading a People Operations or HR Operations function
• Experience in a scale-up, high-growth or rapidly changing business
• Strong knowledge of employee lifecycle management, HR systems and people data
• Proactive, organised leader with passion for improving processes and developing teams
• Confident with stakeholders across the business and managing competing priorities

• proactive
• organised
• stakeholder management
• HR systems
• people data
• payroll processes

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