People and Talent Director

carwow makes choosing and buying your perfect car easy and enjoyable. By comparing the best offers from our top local and national dealers, you get the car you want, from the dealer you like best, at a price that’s right for you.

We’re a driven, energetic startup with a team of 200+ based in London, Munich, Paris and Madrid. We are backed by some of Europe’s leading VCs and have raised over £48m in funding since we launched, so we’re growing fast. We've just been ranked 6th in the Financial Times' Top 1000 Fastest Growing Companies in Europe.

We’re relentlessly driven and constantly asking ourselves how we can make carwow better. If you’re proactive, motivated, and want to help us change the future of car buying, get in touch. It’s the chance to be at the start of something huge.

The Role

We’re looking for an outstanding person to lead People and Talent at carwow. You will set and lead the People and Talent strategy and help constantly improve the culture of the company.

You’ll be a key part of the Executive team, reporting directly to the CEO and Founder.

We’re growing quickly so you’ll be able to offer up expertise on scaling, creating processes and coach senior managers along the way. You will understand the values and ethos of our business and be happy to challenge proposals or behaviours that don’t align with them! You don’t mind ambiguity and can guide the team through it with a sense of purpose.

Key Responsibilities

You will set the strategy for:

• Performance Management and coaching to make sure we get the best out of our team
• Attracting and hiring great people (with the support of the Head of talent)
• Learning and Development including succession planning and career development
• Employee Engagement to make sure we have a great and motivated team
• Rewards and Benefits ensuring that all reward and benefits are managed effectively and remain in line with the current and future needs of our business
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Culture and Values
• Employer Branding (together with Head of Talent)

You will:

• Set company wide processes to hire great people and allow them to excel
• Coach our Executives and be responsible for partnering with our People Managers
• Lead planning for future organisational structures
• Manage Head of Talent, People Partners and Exec PA/Office Manager
• Explore best practices from other companies
• Constantly ask how can we make it better

Requirements

• You can demonstrate experience leading, motivating and developing a People Team and People Strategy at a later stage company
• You have previous experience scaling at a fast-growing company (hopefully companies)
• Strong commercial acumen
• Excellent communication skills - you have outstanding verbal and written communication skills as well as keen listening skills with the ability to be persuasive and influence key stakeholders as needed on different topics
• Excellent academic background
• You are a great coach and mentor
• You display great passion and radiate enthusiasm
• You are approachable
• You are happy to challenge stakeholders at any level

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous equity in the business
• Modern offices in Victoria (with a roof terrace!)
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Regular team lunches, free fruit and fancy coffee on tap (and tea!)
• Annual company ski trip
• A sociable team with monthly office-wide events, regular events include Wine & Cheese night and carwow Olympics
• Want training? You’ve got a budget to spend as you please, we’ve also got weekly language classes and coding lessons
• Weekly Friday drinks from 5pm
• carwow sports teams