Head of People - Widcombe, United Kingdom - Seccl Technology

Description

About us
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that's helping more people to invest - and invest well.

Our sector is being held back by old tech, dismal processes and misaligned interests. Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers. We're on a mission to fix it.

We help forward-thinking financial planners, wealth managers and investment platforms to reimagine their business and client experience - empowering them to build better, more sustainable and more valuable operations, and meet the digital demands of the future, not the baseline expectations of the past.

And we do it by reimagining their technology - with a low-cost, hyper-efficient and (genuinely) API-first technology infrastructure that handles millions of requests every day, and powers the portfolios of more than 160,000 investors.

A regulated custodian and ISA/SIPP provider, we combine the disruptive mindset and ambitious mission to shake things up, with the commitment and substance to not screw them up.

We've doubled the size of our business over the last six months and expect to do that a few more times over the next few years.

We're proud to be part of Octopus, the £12.8 billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.

TLDR

We're a business with insane product-market fit, impressive early traction and an offering that has the potential to transform an outdated industry for the better.

The role
This newly created role is a fantastic opportunity to build and scale our people proposition.

As the head of people at Seccl, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining our culture, fostering market-leading people engagement and driving talent management initiatives.

You will be responsible for developing and implementing people and ways of working strategies that align with our business objectives and support our rapid growth trajectory.

Reporting to the chief operating officer and with a dotted line to our portfolio chief people officer, your detailed objectives will change as we grow, but your high-level accountabilities will be:

Develop and deliver people strategy and plans:

• Execute and continue to evolve our people strategy aligned with Seccl's long-term goals and operating principles.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to drive organisational development initiatives in line with the outcomes we expect from our leaders.
• Provide guidance and support to executives and senior leaders on peoplerelated matters ensure alignment with overall company objectives.

Talent acquisition and retention:

• Design and oversee brilliant endtoend recruitment processes to help us attract the best talent and ensure we've got the right people in the right roles at the right time.
• Work with our leaders and teams to design structures that drive the delivery of our business plan while achieving the right blend between internal progression opportunities and external hires whilst managing our people cost base to budget.
• Develop and lead employer branding strategies to position Seccl as an employer of choice.
• Implement retention strategies to foster marketleading people engagement and minimise turnover.
• Work with our content and communications team to ensure our internal communications, all company meetings and offsites are culturally aligned and impactful. You'll be comfortable to playback (and respond to questions on) the people strategy and progress at all company meetings and events.

Performance management and development:

• Design and implement performance management frameworks to drive team productivity and development this includes role profiles, career pathways and relevant tools to support performance conversations.
• Ensure alignment on goals and objectives for individual and team performance.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to people leaders to support their leadership and performance development skills.

People partnering and advice:

• Develop and execute people plans aligned to our people strategy and business plan. Act as a strategic partner providing advice, guidance, and support to people leaders on the entire people lifecycle at Seccl.
• Serve as a trusted adviser and mediator for people relations issues, ensuring fair and consistent resolution.
• Ensure Seccl's compliance with relevant employment legislation.
• Foster a positive and inclusive work environment by designing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Learning and development:

• Develop and embed our learning and development strategy including alignment to regulatory requirements and future skills requirement.
• Identify training and development needs across the organisation and design tailored learning programmes. This includes onboarding and