# Head of People - Engine **Company**: Starling **Location**: London, England **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://jobs.workable.com/view/eQo75CcfSMH1jRJXqVt8dk/hybrid-head-of-people---engine-in-london-at-starling?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2f7dac6f-5f0 ## Description Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank. We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Head of People to support Engine, Starling Group's fast-growing, international software-as-a-service business. As a Head of People, you will partner closely with Engine's CEO and Senior Leadership Team, playing a key role in shaping the People's agenda for a business of approximately 450 colleagues, supporting its continued growth, organisational effectiveness and international expansion. **Responsibilities:** - Strategic business partnering: Act as a trusted partner to Engine's CEO and leadership team, understanding the commercial strategy and translating business priorities into a clear, actionable people agenda. - Performance and accountability: Coach and challenge senior leaders on their leadership impact, decision-making and team effectiveness, helping them build a high-performance culture. - Talent and succession: Identify critical capabilities, talent and succession risks, working with leaders and specialist teams to strengthen leadership pipelines, internal mobility and long-term organisational capability. - Culture and engagement: Help shape and embed Engine's distinctive culture and employee value proposition within Starling Group, using engagement insights and employee feedback to identify opportunities for improvement. - Enable Global Growth: Support rapid international mobilisation by developing and implementing People policies and practices that meet regulatory and legislative obligations globally. - Risk and employee matters: Provide sound judgement on sensitive and complex people matters, working with People Advisory, Employee Relations and other specialist teams to ensure fair, consistent and commercially appropriate outcomes. - Group collaboration: Work collaboratively across the People function, contributing Engine's perspective to Group-wide people priorities and ensuring that Group frameworks are applied effectively and pragmatically within the business. **Requirements:** - Significant experience in a senior People Partnering role, with a proven ability to translate business strategy into people priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes. - Strong understanding of business drivers, commercial priorities and organisational challenges, with the ability to connect people decisions to business performance, growth and operational effectiveness. - Demonstrable experience supporting international expansion and scaling businesses across multiple markets, including building organisational capability, navigating different employment and regulatory environments, and adapting people practices to enable sustainable growth. - Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives, influence strategic decisions, provide constructive challenge and act as a credible advisor on complex people and organisational matters. - Ability to interpret workforce data, people metrics and external market insights to identify emerging risks, challenge assumptions and develop evidence-based recommendations. - Sound understanding of employment practices, employee relations and people-related risk, with the judgement to balance commercial objectives, regulatory obligations and fair employee outcomes. **Benefits:** - 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you) - An extra day's holiday for your birthday - Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off - 16 hours paid volunteering time a 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 benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton - Generous family-friendly policies - Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks ## Skills ### Required - Strategic People Partnering - Commercial Acumen - International Growth and Expansion - Senior Stakeholder Management - Data-Driven Decision Making - People Risk and Governance --- Source: [Apply at jobs.workable.com](https://jobs.workable.com/view/eQo75CcfSMH1jRJXqVt8dk/hybrid-head-of-people---engine-in-london-at-starling?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)