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Head of People – Engine
Starling Bank. Act as a trusted partner to Engine’s CEO and leadership team .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in translating business strategy into actionable people priorities while fostering a high-performance culture. Proven ability to navigate complex people matters and regulatory environments, ensuring fair outcomes and organizational capability.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Senior People Partnering ExperienceInternational Expansion SupportOrganizational Capability BuildingWorkforce Data InterpretationEmployee Relations Expertise
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Hard Skills
People Policies DevelopmentBusiness Strategy TranslationTalent ManagementSuccession PlanningEmployee Feedback Analysis
Soft Skills
Constructive ChallengeInfluencing Strategic DecisionsBuilding Trusted RelationshipsCollaborationJudgement
Industry Keywords
High-Performance CultureEmployee Value PropositionRegulatory ComplianceCommercial PrioritiesOrganizational Challenges
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Act as a trusted partner to Engine’s CEO and leadership team
- Translate business priorities into a clear, actionable people agenda
- Provide constructive challenge and influence key decisions
- Coach and challenge senior leaders on leadership impact, decision-making and team effectiveness
- Help build a high-performance culture
- Identify critical capabilities, talent and succession risks
- Strengthen leadership pipelines, internal mobility and long-term organisational capability
- Shape and embed Engine’s culture and employee value proposition within Starling Group
- Use engagement insights and employee feedback to identify improvement opportunities
- Support rapid international mobilisation
- Develop and implement People policies and practices meeting global regulatory and legislative obligations
- Provide judgement on sensitive and complex people matters
- Work with People Advisory, Employee Relations and specialist teams to ensure fair, consistent and commercially appropriate outcomes
- Collaborate across the People function and contribute Engine’s perspective to Group-wide people priorities
- Apply Group frameworks effectively and pragmatically within the business
Requirements
What you’ll need- Significant experience in a senior People Partnering role
- Proven ability to translate business strategy into people priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes
- Strong understanding of business drivers, commercial priorities and organisational challenges
- Experience supporting international expansion and scaling businesses across multiple markets
- Experience building organisational capability and navigating different employment and regulatory environments
- Experience adapting people practices to enable sustainable growth
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives and influence strategic decisions
- Ability to provide constructive challenge and advise on complex people and organisational matters
- Ability to interpret workforce data, people metrics and external market insights
- Sound understanding of employment practices, employee relations and people-related risk
- Judgement to balance commercial objectives, regulatory obligations and fair employee outcomes
- Commercially astute, strategic, pragmatic, self-starting, accountable, curious, forward-looking, collaborative and values-led
Benefits
Comp & perks- 25 days holiday, plus the option to take public holiday allowance whenever works best
- Extra day's holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave increases with length of service
- Option to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time per year
- Salary sacrifice
- Company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary
- Group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth, including mental health support and cancer care
- Partner discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership with retail discounts, wellness platform, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Cycle to Work initiative
- Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships
- Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing