COULD THIS BE THE JOB FOR YOU?

At BrandAlley, we’re on an exciting journey of transformation, and we’re looking for an exceptional People Operations Manager/ Specialist to help lead the way. In this role, you’ll be the People Ops expert, ensuring our processes are efficient, our systems are connected, and our employees feel supported. A part of your mission, you will be embedding our new HRIS i.e. Cezanne, while owning people experiences from recruitment and onboarding to policy updates. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a visible impact in a business that values innovation, exceptional people experiences, and operational excellence.

What will you be doing?

• Act as a strategic partner, owning hiring across all of BrandAlley. Delivering full-cycle recruitment: sourcing, screening, managing processes and closing candidates. Building and maintain talent pipelines through direct sourcing. Reporting hiring metrics and pipeline data.
• Build and deliver an exceptional on-boarding experience end to end ensuring new joiners are up and running in role ASAP and have all the tools they need. (Includes overseeing automated probation process.)
• Oversee an automated offboarding experience, ensuring cross-functional collaboration with finance, IT and all departments. Leading on the ‘human parts’ such as exit interview and sharing learnings as appropriate.
• Be the owner and lead for our HR system – Cezanne, ensuring starters, leavers, promotions, changes are all processed and formal documents updated.
• Lead on the HR inbox – ensuring driving forward automation and efficiencies.
• Manage contractor compliance, keeping IR35 documentation accurate and up to date.
• Keep our people policies and processes fresh, relevant and aligned with our values and are transparent with all colleagues.
• Collaborate with our Payroll Advisor as required, to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing when needed.
• Be data focused, reporting monthly key metrics and driving forward improvements, efficiencies and exceptional experiences.
• Drive smarter ways of working through automation and seamless systems integration.
• Support learning and development by training the wider People & Culture team and managers with system and automation approach.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to make our People Operations function even more effective and exceptional experience for employees and line managers.

THE GOOD STUFF…

• A strong track record in People Operations, ideally within a fast-moving business (we are 200 employees)
• Hands-on experience with Cezanne HR system, you know what is possible and what good people experiences looks like.
• Confidence working with data, systems, and reporting tools.
• A keen interest and knowledge of employment law and IR35 compliance.
• Tech-savvy and solutions-focused, always looking for ways to do things better and faster.Experience with product led people experiences is desirable.

• Act as a strategic partner, owning hiring across all of BrandAlley. Delivering full-cycle recruitment: sourcing, screening, managing processes and closing candidates. Building and maintain talent pipelines through direct sourcing. Reporting hiring metrics and pipeline data.
• Build and deliver an exceptional on-boarding experience end to end ensuring new joiners are up and running in role ASAP and have all the tools they need. (Includes overseeing automated probation process.)
• Oversee an automated offboarding experience, ensuring cross-functional collaboration with finance, IT and all departments. Leading on the ‘human parts’ such as exit interview and sharing learnings as appropriate.
• Be the owner and lead for our HR system – Cezanne, ensuring starters, leavers, promotions, changes are all processed and formal documents updated.
• Lead on the HR inbox – ensuring driving forward automation and efficiencies.
• Manage contractor compliance, keeping IR35 documentation accurate and up to date.
• Keep our people policies and processes fresh, relevant and aligned with our values and are transparent with all colleagues.
• Collaborate with our Payroll Advisor as required, to ensure timely and accurate payroll processing when needed.
• Be data focused, reporting monthly key metrics and driving forward improvements, efficiencies and exceptional experiences.
• Drive smarter ways of working through automation and seamless systems integration.
• Support learning and development by training the wider People & Culture team and managers with system and automation approach.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to make our People Operations function even more effective and exceptional experience for employees and line managers