Talent and People Manager
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Talent and People Manager owning recruitment, payroll and employee experience at Driftrock, an automotive and e-mobility marketing platform. Scaling compliant people operations for a fully remote UK team.
Responsibilities:
- Own recruitment day to day, including job descriptions, sourcing, interview rounds, coordination with team leads, offers and onboarding
- Run a comprehensive onboarding experience and follow up with new joiners
- Run payroll across three systems and administer benefits, annual leave and contract renewals
- Draft employment and consultancy contracts and offer letters
- Maintain legally compliant people practices with support from lawyers
- Maintain people policies and the employee handbook
- Support home-working health and safety and people-related risk
- Audit people processes and systems and recommend and implement upgrades
- Manage IT setup, device management and off-boarding
- Serve as the first point of contact for people queries
- Handle disciplinary, grievance and off-boarding processes, including exit interviews
- Take over day-to-day people operations, live recruitment and process mapping during the first 30 days
- Run the first full payroll cycle, own talent end to end and deliver a prioritised improvement list by day 60
- Implement process improvements and become the trusted first point of contact by day 90
- Work closely with the Head of Operations and team leaders
- Report to the Head of Operations
Requirements:
- Experience running people operations and talent hands-on in a company of 35+ people, including scaling processes as it grew
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law, people best practice and compliance
- Hands-on contract and policy management experience
- Track record running recruitment and onboarding end to end
- Experience managing payroll, benefits and people systems, ideally across multiple countries
- Excellent interpersonal skills and sound judgement on sensitive, confidential matters
- Reliable self-starter able to set direction and deliver it
- Ownership-oriented approach rather than waiting to be told
- Bonus: experience supporting a remote-first or internationally distributed team
- Bonus: familiarity with Employer of Record models and multi-country payroll
- Bonus: comfort with technology and tools
Benefits:
- Share options in Driftrock, on founder-friendly, tax-efficient EMI terms, including the option to retain vested options after leaving (at board discretion)
- Comprehensive Vitality health cover: medical, dental, vision, hearing, mental-health support and therapy, cancer cover, a free Headspace subscription and Vitality rewards
- 24 to 28 days' holiday (24 + 1 extra each year, capped at 28), plus bank holidays
- Pension contributions
- Life assurance (3x salary)
- Income protection
- Electric car salary-sacrifice scheme (Octopus): save up to ~40%, with insurance, servicing and a charging perk included
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- A learning budget for books, courses and conferences, plus time for personal goals
- Perks and discounts via CharlieHR
- BMW Group employee discount programme
- Fully remote and flexible working
- Co-working space available
- Donut coffee pairings
- Annual company Summit bringing the global team together in person
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