We are seeking a delivery focussed, collaborative, and -oriented Senior People Partner Lead to join our growing global Partner team. Based in London, this role involves actively partnering with our ProdEng leadership team and leading the People Partners that they work with. You will have the opportunity to work internationally with talented individuals, and be part of a larger People Team making a significant impact at scale.
Looking at all aspects of the employee experience and growth agenda through a technical and expansion focussed lens, this role offers a lot of variety and scope, giving you access to make an impact at scale at Wise across all markets.
Youâll thrive in creating great workplaces and working on a complete cycle of people services, including establishing trusted partnerships with business leaders, the People team and Wisers.
Weâre looking for someone who is passionate about all things people. You will love developing a talented Partner team, working with other people team members, enabling your client groups, getting to know the business, and providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday and longer term challenges.
The problems we are solving:
We are building the People Partner capability at Wise as a way to empower leaders and ensure the service we offer is able to scale and enable growth. We help build our ways of working in a way that optimises for driving higher performance at speed and gives a great Wiser experience. Having customer-facing People Partners embedded across our business ensures that Wiserâs problems are being tackled at speed.
The How:
Create close, effective relationships with the Leads and Wisers, acting as a trusted people advisor to identify and achieve shared objectives, coaching, advising, and enabling them with their people plans and talent needs .
Work with the Leads and Talent Acquisition to drive a strategic workforce plan for future growth across the region as well as a practical view on immediate workforce hiring needs.
You will have accountability for completing talent planning, succession, assessments, and similar processes that drive the people plan with high quality and integrity. Drive organisational development, re-design, change, learning & engagement as needed against regional priorities, including project management & employee communications of the plans
Actively drive our DEI strategy looking at how this can be improved across all touch points of the Employee lifecycle. Support Wise initiatives and actively contribute to embed DEI nudges across our processes.
Analyse people metrics and risks adding further insight into the overall health of our teams and to share trends or determine opportunities for focus
Lead the WiserPulse (our engagement survey) rollout and drive action plans for the team.
Help shape the global people team plan and priorities through the collation of business trends, needs and anticipated future requirements
Champion our values and culture, being a role model for these and supporting the continual embedding of them in everything we do.
A bit about you:
Influencer: you have the ability to inspire and motivate others, leveraging your expertise and credibility to drive change and achieve results. You can effectively build a network of advocates and use your influence to align stakeholders with strategic goals.
Big Thinker: youâre willing to challenge the status quo, speak up and help others see things from other perspectives
Collaboration: relationships get you out of bed in the morning, building and fostering them over time. Also not afraid to challenge and say no, without creating damage
Data Driven: youâll always start with data, facts, and insights to help inform your approach to solving problems and analysing needs. You have a high proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint and can use data to provide insights, inform decisions, and visualize it to influence others through storytelling. Additionally, you are adept at leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance data analysis, uncover deeper insights, and drive more informed decision-making.
Initiative: weâre not a âone size fits allâ kind of business and weâre not looking for off the shelf solutions; we need you to think creatively and be flexible in your outlook
Resilience: you need to be comfortable being challenged and keeping cool and calm through times of adversity
Change Agent: the skills and desire to change the status quo for the better. These should include the ability to manage all elements of organisational transformation, facilitation, and training.
Employee Relations: use knowledge to coach and advise managers and drive necessary actions. With tested mediation skills, you can guide managers in supporting conflict resolution.
Communication: You are an effective and thoughtful communicator who is able to understand diverse perspectives and vary your communication style based on the circumstance.
What youâve done before Wise:
Technical & Product partnering: Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Partner specifically within Product, or Fintech organisation. You understand the unique talent challenges of scaling "Full-Stack" technical hubs and partnering with CPOs or VPs of Product.
Regulated environment navigation: Direct experience working within regulated financial services or high-governance environments. You can balance the "move fast" startup heart with the "get it right" requirements of global banking regulators.
Lead and contribute to projects across the People function: weâre always looking to improve our ways of working as we continue to grow
Developed a broad range of expertise and skills: no matter the challenge (a restructure, salary benchmarking, skills gap, employee relations, etc) you can bring thought leadership and take ownership
Project management: youâll be strongly solutions focused, able to identify problems and drive initiatives that have a measurable impact
Regional / multi-site experience: youâre experienced supporting Leads and employees split across geographies and timezones. One of your super powers is being able to adapt to many different cultures and backgrounds