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