Senior People Partner

Senior People Partner

Location: London, UK (our office is in King's Cross)

Department: People & Ops

Hours: Full-time

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About The Role:

This is a new and unique role for us, we have an outline of what this role will look like but you’ll have the opportunity to come in and work with our Head of People and Lead People Partner to define how our team brings value to the business, creates a leading employee experience and helps us achieve our business goals.

You will own key features of the employee experience including L&D yet, be hands on with team health and performance based support.

About you:

You have demonstrated experience as a People Partner looking to take on your next challenge. You’re an excellent communicator and build trust easily. You have experience implementing people initiatives that improve people experience and streamline processes; we design for the organisation. You have a solid understanding of employment law but you’ll apply this knowledge in a human centred way. You’re competent with data and adept at balancing the art and science of topics like engagement & team health. You have a keen interest in L&D and are excited about the prospect of building a strong EVP that attracts and retains top talent in a consulting environment.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

The cliché of no day is the same 👀, but really it isn’t; this is a varied role and depending on where we are in the year, you’re focuses will differ.

People Partnering

• Staffing: You’ll have a deep understanding of your stakeholder groups and partner with our Client Partner team to manage staffing needs.
• Engagement: You’ll build engagement across your stakeholder groups by partnering with our Lead People Partner on engagement formats. You’ll review data to draw insights and build engagement plans.
• Talent: As the expert of your stakeholder group you’ll facilitate and input into talent conversations ensuring we have the right skills and capabilities to meet our business objectives and service our clients need.

Learning and Development

• As one of our key areas of our EVP you’ll develop a strong, market leading L&D strategy that support individual growth and business success.
• In partnership with our Head of People, you’ll build a programme that develops our Managers to build a happy, healthy and thriving organisation.

Hub Responsibilities

• You’ll be a go-to people contact for our London hub. We’re remote first but have a small office in London.

You'll have the following skills and experience: 

• Experience as a People Partner in at least one prior role
• Experience in developing successful Learning and Development strategies with proven ROI
• A solid HR background and grip on UK Employment Law (ideally with a CIPD qualification)
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills
• Strong data literacy and ability to draw insights from data
• Passionate about developing people
• Highly organised
• Good influencing skills
• Experience in scaling a fast-growing company

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:

• Company Private Health care (currently provided by BUPA)
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Company’s Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• £2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• £300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• 2nd Interview with our Head of People (30/45 mins)
• Panel task to be presented to some of our key stakeholders (~1h)
• Final stage, in-person (30 mins)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.