People Director

About Low Carbon

Low Carbon is a purpose-driven company that creates large-scale renewable energy in the global fight against climate change. Our mission is to protect the planet for future generations while delivering positive returns for our communities and investors. Our goal is to produce as much new renewable energy as possible while limiting our own environmental impact. We do this by developing, investing in, and operating large-scale renewable energy projects across the globe.

Our people and culture are really important to us. We are friendly, approachable, and professional. We value enthusiasm, entrepreneurialism, clear communication, and drive. This, combined with our purpose and passion for climate change, is why our colleagues recommend Low Carbon as a great place to work.

Role Description

The People Director is a core member of the Low Carbon Leadership team and must be able to contribute, challenge and leverage their expertise to highlight potential issues and opportunities across the full range of people topics. They will work closely with the CEO, Executive Committee and Board to deliver insight by providing high quality people-related information to inform decision making and support delivery of our strategy.

This is an exciting role for an ambitious, purpose-led HR professional, with a blend of strategic and tactical expertise, to work alongside the Executive Team to lead the HR function through a new wave of organisational development as Low Carbon embarks on the next phase of its journey.

This position offers the opportunity to play a lead role within an organisation that is purpose-led and seeking to create a sustainable, low carbon future, globally.

You will be expected to:

• Set the agenda for the organisation’s People Strategy, ensuring that it is in line with the immediate needs and future vision of the business
• As a key member of the UK leadership team, make an active contribution to the business strategy and the delivery of performance
• Partner with the CEO and business leaders, to understand organisational challenges to ensure that the business has the organisational model and capability needed for sustained high performance
• Develop and run a professional, robust HR operation, embedding rigorous best practice HR systems and processes that allow the company to operate more efficiently and sustainably
• Lead reward Globally, including designing and implementing a new reward structure that reflects the needs of the business going forward, developing and managing the job architecture, salary benchmarking, managing compensation processes and representing the business in Remco
• Lead, monitor and review the organisational design to ensure the company has the capabilities, capacity and way of working to deliver its goals
• Oversee employee engagement and talent acquisition
• Build a talent agenda which measures performance at all levels and develop training programmes that grow talent and meet the needs of the business
• Develop and lead our Global HR provision across multiple geographies and jurisdictions including Germany and Poland
• Manage and develop our policy framework, procedures and practices

Key Responsibilities

• Manage HR operations on a day to day basis, continually improving our processes and systems including HR reporting
• Execute all HR processes with precision, including benefits, payroll, ER, disciplinaries, performance management, training, onboarding & offboarding
• Manage all reward administration Globally including reporting, benchmarking, salary reviews, bonuses, share plans and long term incentives, coordinating with our legal and tax teams to ensure we are compliant and accurate in our communications and payments
• Reward framework design
• Develop, plan and execute on change initiatives – leading the thinking and implementing them into operation
• Manage and develop our policy framework for consistency and to support regulatory compliance across all our geographies
• Organisation design and strategic workforce planning
• Support the business to develop and maintain its values and culture in line with the founding principles and vision and mission of the business
• Support the work of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience, ideally within financial services across all generalist aspects of HR at a senior level
• Experience establishing and operating HR internationally especially Europe, using various models
• Detailed understanding of Reward frameworks including share plans, share option schemes, performance-based bonuses and STIPs and LTIPs
• Highly numerate and data savvy, able to create and analyse reward and people data to drive insight that will improve our Employee Experience
• Experienced Senior HR business partner
• Able to take the complex and make it simple for colleagues, through great written and verbal communications which are clear, consistent, and aligned with our values

Our Compensation & Benefits

• 26 days holiday plus your birthday off (with option to buy a further 5 days)
• Bupa Health Check & Private Healthcare for you and your family (medical history disregarded)
• Contributory Pension
• Pluxee for commercial discounts and perks
• 3 additional days for volunteering to support causes of your choice
• Annual credit towards short notice childcare, eldercare and pet care via ‘Bubble’