Head of People (fixed term / maternity cover / interim)
Tempo, United Kingdom
Job Description
About Tempo
Hi we’re Tempo, we’re a team of 50 on a mission to enable everyone to fulfil their potential through work, and to be the place where amazing careers and companies are built.
Since launching in 2017 we've become the go-to business and commercial hiring platform for fast growing companies, and our clients include a whopping 15 unicorns! We've also raised 8m from some great investors including Adecco Group and Hambro Perks. We’re doubling our team by 2023 and now have international expansion in our sights.
When Ben and Ollie started Tempo they were amazed that such an important process, that affects everyone, worked so badly.
If you’re a company, hiring is the most important thing you do. Your people are your business and who you hire can be the difference between failure and success. As individuals we spend 70% of our time at work, so it’s a big deal where we choose to go. Despite this there is huge unhappiness with the solutions we rely on to help. They are slow, expensive and at their worst, totally demoralising.
It's why we're here - to build a platform that delivers the hiring experience people deserve. Fast, transparent and human.
We're also now exploring products to help candidates navigate their career longer term so they can be hired based on their potential, not just their past experience.
We live our mission when we hire, looking to make the experience human and enjoyable whatever the outcome. We offer an exciting environment to build a career, with employees achieving promotions on average 9.5 months after probation. Read more on Glassdoor.
About the role
We have an opportunity to join our HR Tech start-up as our Head of People on a maternity cover for an initial 7 month period commencing November 2022.
Whilst this is a maternity cover, the current CPO is looking for someone to bring fresh ideas, perspectives and energy and not just care-take of the status quo.
The role represents a chance to work for a business passionate about enabling people to achieve their potential and find exciting, fulfilling career opportunities. Our company mission translates into a People leadership role where you are empowered and supported to make a difference - with high expectations and ambition, but plenty of support from engaged employees at all levels.
We are currently a team of around 60 employees, the People function includes 2 brilliant Talent Partners and reports to both Co-Founders. The role also forms part of the Tempo leadership team.
Specific responsibilities;
- Talent; overseeing and driving the current hiring plan, supporting and enabling the current Talent team, hands on recruitment for executive hires as applicable (none currently)
- Performance; working with leadership on the OKR process, managing our talent/career cycle, guiding others to resolve performance opportunities or concerns
- Lamp;D; hands on coaching at all levels, advising managers/employees on interventions and suitable resources
- Roadmap; working through People OKRs, driving functional goals in alignment with business needs and continual improvement ambitions
- Reward; signing off offers/promotions with leadership, recognition initiatives
- DEIamp;B; working alongside the committee to provide input and direction collaboratively
- Other; flexible and ad hoc support as you may expect as the generalist in the team and lead People advisor to the business
Requirements
Your experience
- The experience and capability to deliver the above - ideally but not necessarily gained in a relevant start-up / scale up environment - you’re not expected to be an expert in every area of HR but definitely self aware of competence and where you may need to upskill/a refresher
- Our preference is that you are a strong generalist who can support with Talent, not someone with a specialist Talent background who can support more generally across the People domain
Your approach
- A human, common sense, collaborative, straight talking People approach as opposed to (overly) jargony, process-oriented or inflexible
- The ability to quickly achieve buy-in, trust and confidence from the team such that you are connected to their lived experience and can quickly form your own judgements and make an impact through delivery
- The competence and confidence to get stuck in, keep up with the pace of the business and enable the right decisions across the board
- The ability to engage/influence effectively - based on what is best for individuals, the team as a whole and the commercial requirements of the business
- A generous people manager with a coaching style who can provide great support and an optimal learning experience to our Talent team
- Genuine excitement for our mission and our unique val