People Operations Specialist

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People Operations Specialist running Jira-based goals, AI-assisted reviews, and wellbeing processes at Buckhill, a technology partner delivering modern London Market insurance solutions. Supporting managers, reporting, and people-process improvement.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and administer the company-wide goals framework in Jira, maintaining goal hierarchies, due dates, labels and linked work across company, team and individual levels
  • Build and maintain Jira dashboards showing goal progress and support managers with sprint and capacity planning
  • Ensure goals data flows correctly between Jira and the HRIS, including importing summary data for reviews
  • Use AI tooling to analyse goal progress, surface risks and trends, and produce reporting for People & Culture and Senior Leadership
  • Train and support managers and employees in the goals process
  • Run performance review cycles end to end, owning timelines, communications and completion tracking
  • Use AI tooling and goals dashboards to pre-populate review documentation
  • Collect employee self-reflections in written or voice-note format and coordinate transcription
  • Manage manager, self and peer reviews across the business
  • Review completed reviews, flag follow-up items and prepare cases for triage with the COO
  • Coordinate live review meetings, including notices, pre-reads, channel selection and recording agreed next steps in Jira
  • Schedule and support wellbeing check-ins and track resulting actions
  • Feed review insights into learning and development planning with the L&D Specialist
  • Continuously improve goals and review processes using AI and automation
  • Maintain clear, current and accessible process documentation
  • Provide administrative support to the People & Culture team, including document preparation, record keeping, reports, meetings and employee enquiries
  • Organise social events for office-based and remote employees
  • Act as a culture ambassador for Buckhill

Requirements:

  • Graduate in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
  • At least 2 years of experience in a People Operations, HR operations or similar role, ideally with exposure to performance management processes
  • Strong working knowledge of Jira and Confluence, including dashboards, filters and process administration; experience with Jira automation is an advantage
  • Comfortable using HRIS systems, preferably HiBob or similar, including reporting and data imports
  • Analytical and data-driven, able to turn goals and review data into clear insights and reporting
  • Genuine interest in AI tools and their application to people processes
  • High discretion and ability to handle confidential and sensitive employee information, including wellbeing matters
  • Strong organisational skills, with the ability to run company-wide cyclical processes to deadline with limited supervision
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, and strong collaboration skills
  • A self-starter who is courageous, willing to try something different and speak up with new ideas

Benefits:

  • Remote work
  • Sponsored professional learning
  • Fully covered sick leave
  • Child and family support
  • A friendly and supportive team
  • Career switch opportunities
  • A healthy work-life balance
  • Permanent full-time contract
  • Working schedule flexibility
  • Multi-role options
  • Leadership opportunities