People Director

Founded by brothers Jonathan and Alex Petrides in 2017, allplants makes plant-based living exciting and easy, delivering mouthwatering, healthier food to busy homes UK-wide. The science is irrefutable. Eating more plants is the #1 way to help yourself and our planet thrive. That’s why, at allplants we’ve started by helping the rapidly emergent plant curious consumer, by making eating more plants a supremely positive and exciting choice: a fiesta of flavour, not a fast.

Since launching in 2017, allplants is already the leading plant-based living platform in Europe having served up >4 million meals to UK homes who subscribe for feel-good, healthier living. This track-record has resulted in a record-breaking Series B raise in Summer 2021.

The plans for 2022 and beyond are as exciting as they are delicious - growing the product range to serve a growing community, scaling our teams, expanding the production space in Blackhorse Road (The Greenhouse), as well as open a new office in Angel (The Veg Patch). The allplants team is ready to scale their inclusive celebration of food to the next level and is looking for talent like you to join its journey.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, ambitious and innovative People Leader to design and deliver the organisational strategy we need for long-term success. You’ll be the leader on all things People, Culture and Talent with a particular focus on organisational design, culture development, talent strategy and bringing a people-oriented, success focus to the leadership team. The role reports into the CEO, Jonathan Petrides (JP), and is part of the senior leadership team. The role will be based in our Angel office “The Veg Patch” in London 2+ days per week (whichever days work best for you and your team) but we expect you’ll spend plenty of time at our kitchen in Walthamstow, “The Greenhouse”, too.

This is a permanent opportunity, with an annual salary of £80,000-100,000 per annum, dependent on experience.

What you'll be doing

Leadership

• Partner to the CEO in shaping a high performing senior leadership team and culture
• Trusted advisor and coach to the Leadership team, supporting them to enable success for their functions and the wider business
• Lead on company communications and change management : ensuring we bring our diverse and ambitious team with us
• Guide, support & develop the People & Talent team, ensuring it is structured and resourced to enable success across all teams

Strategy & Planning

• Develop a strong understanding of the overall company strategy, brand and product proposition and core business processes to ensure that we have the people power to deliver to these requirements
• Design the People & Talent strategy across Kitchen and HQ teams
• Build and strengthen the primary culture foundations to create a high performing environment that underpins our mission-driven team of allplants allstars
• Being an active member of the Senior Leadership Team, and supporting the Founder in the effective leadership of the company and in future fundraising rounds (Series C+)

Org Design

• Work closely with our Founder and SLT to develop the organisational strategy and processes to ensure the correct structures, communication and dynamics are in place to underpin growth
• Distil and design our culture across our diverse teams
• Enhance and oversee the People & Talent team, ensuring it is structured and resourced to enable success across all teams

Recruitment & Talent

• Design our overarching Talent strategy for growth
• Work closely with our Talent Partner to build a leading, mission-driven employer brand, ensuring we attract and onboard incredible people into every corner of the organisation

Learning & development

• Ensuring that a ‘growth mindset’ continues to strengthen, supported by and supporting that with the development of a robust suite of continuous learning options to support all levels and functions. A strong focus on line management and feedback skills.
• Ensure our People have access to the learning opportunities to enable compelling and impactful career development, market-leading talent retention, and a high performance team environment - particularly including being instrumental in developing a world class management capability

Reward & recognition

• Lead on the evolution of our Reward principles, and the associated processes
• Enable a culture of recognition that is aligned with our values

Facilities, People Experience & ways of working

• Ensuring that an MVP approach is taken to all new people related initiatives, whilst flagging any trade-offs we need to be aware of
• Ensure your team are running all People operations in a seamless, accurate and helpful way to support all team-mates and managers to focus on what matters most
• Ensure our workspaces scale with our growth and are a physical manifestation of our culture, values and mission
• Design our ways of working for maximum success in a changing world of work

What you'll need

• Leadership experience. You have proven experience in positions of senior leadership, with demonstrable experience creating business and functional strategy and developing a team. You understand what works in a fast-moving venture-backed business, with the experience to navigate us from 200 to 500 team-mates and beyond

• High growth. You have a track record of building the systems, processes and culture to underpin the rapid scaling of people in organisations doubling or tripling in scale annually, and seamlessly opening up new markets (teams and offices) internationally.

• Passion for people. You are highly self aware and personable, with an exceptionally high EQ. You are experienced in working with diverse groups of people and connecting them towards our mission and strategy. You have led People in organisations with both ‘operational’ (e.g. manufacturing or warehousing) and ‘HQ’ employees and know what it takes to get the best of both. You understand the challenges of maintaining cohesion, morale and culture in a multi-site hybrid organisation.

• Proactive doer. You embody proactivity, with a can-do attitude, and solid project management. Willing to roll your sleeves-up, dive into the details, hack, research and learn a way around any challenge.

• Coach and communicator. You love coaching other leaders and team-mates through challenging situations and focus on solving problems with people, not for them. You are an excellent and inspirational communicator, with the ability to adapt to all mediums, settings and people.

• Culture leader. You bring energy and a sense of humour to balance your resilience. You’re personally motivated by something bigger, and feel passionate about our mission, our brand, and feel excited about scaling that into our culture.

There's quite a bit on this list. If you feel you have some of the experience but not all of it, please do still apply. We love developing our team

What we offer

Be part of a certified B-Corp, dedicated to using commercial growth to better serve people & planet

24 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays)

Birthdays off

Mental Health cover

‍️ Health & Well-being cover

Yearly learning allowance

Hybrid working model

Flexible working hours

Gym discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Parental leave: 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregiver & 8 weeks for secondary caregiver

Pregnancy loss support leave

Real opportunities to grow in your career and develop your skills as we scale the company

Competitive salary and stock options from day one

Free healthy lunches, breakfast and snacks, and lots of allplants tastings

A free monthly delivery of allplants for everyone to taste what's cooking

A dog-friendly office with cute pooches

Regular socials. We love a good party.

Chance to join one of Escape The City’s best companies to work for & Startups' #7 in most disruptive and innovative startup️

At allplants diversity is about embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together, in terms of our business but also our culture. We fully embrace diversity by giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, and proactively support the growth and development of our team members, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity or family structure.

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