Chief People Officer - Paris / London

Fractional (50-80%) Chief People Officer

Location: London or Paris

● Are you an experienced HR expert who would like to leverage a company's service?
● Do you want to develop your personal brand as an HR expert?
● Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to build something new?
● Do you want to work in a challenging environment with smart, agile and dedicated people?

If so, this is the opportunity for you!

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a fractional Chief People Officer (CPO) to lead our People team in shaping an environment and delivering an employee experience that attracts and retains top talent and enables a high-performing organisation.

We want to be a great place to work where People Experience is a key point of differentiation and retention as well as contribute to build a unique value proposition in the market.

Specifically, you’ll lead on:

●      Defining and implementing HR strategy & policies globally, setting the company up to scale;

●      Overseeing all our People & Culture operations: Employer Branding, Talent Acquisition, People Experience, People Operations and Office Management;

●      Managing a team of 2-3 people, with high potential to grow

Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding

●      Plan and implement a yearly hiring plan ensuring that the recruitment needs are aligned to the business roadmap (budget, managers, business objectives)

●      Oversee the recruitment policy globally

●      Monitoring of recruitment performance: monthly reporting of ongoing projects and recruitment activity as a whole, monitoring of KPIs

●      Work with the Branding team to define a clear Employer Value Proposition and build a strong Employer Branding inside and outside

Employee experience (Learning and development, Talent Management, C&B, Culture)

●      Define and implement  a training strategy fully integrated in each career path.

●      Implement a best-in-class process for performance reviews and feedback cycles (objectives settings, mid-year appraisals, people reviews, 360 feedback)

●      Build a strong corporate culture in all geographies (France, UK and other), hand-in-hand with managers (values, corporate rituals, attitudes, charters)

●      Work with the finance teams to ensure an attractive compensation & benefits policy while respecting internal pay equity   

People Ops

●      Supervise payroll topics in order to ensure the compliance of HR processes and data:

●      Supervise also all legal related topics: social organisations, the legal part related to the employment of people from different nationalities, etc.

●      Build and implement the right metrics to drive HR performance and optimise the use of people analytics to manage talent and make business and strategic recommendations

●      Ensure a good social climate (gender equality, remote-work, legal)

Team management & budget

●      Manage the HR team on a daily basis and ensure that each team member has a performance-based roadmap (e.g. clear objectives)

●      Build and monitor the  HR Budget

Requirements

We’re looking for experienced people leaders with great EQ and a passion for People. Specifically, they will exhibit:

●     You have a passion for people. You are highly self-aware and personable, with an exceptionally high EQ, and can show successful delivery across recruitment, employee growth, culture and engagement.

●     At least 10 years experience working in a people team, including experience leading the team and building, hiring, managing and scaling a high-performing global People team in a fast growing company

●     Experience working with and reporting to C-Suite and Senior Leadership

●     Previous experience in proactively improving People processes for scaling organisations

●     You are a culture leader, bring a sense of humour to your work, and have high energy and drive.

●     Have an ability to influence stakeholders with compelling, data-driven insights and story-telling.

●     Have a strategic mindset and skills to stay at the top of tactical execution and translating business challenges and questions into People strategy

●     Data-driven mindset with a history of decision-making based on business metrics, to quickly define, track and analyze KPIs to take action

●     Must have experience working on people teams in France and strong knowledge of French labour law

●     Excellent oral & written communication in English

Last updated on Feb 6, 2024