Hybrid Senior People Manager

at Naked Wines

• Job title: Senior People Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Switching
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Norwich, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior People Manager responsible for leading HR strategy development at Naked Wines. Partnering with business leaders to foster a supportive and compliant work environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders across the business to shape and deliver our people strategy.
• Provide expert advice on HR matters - from employee relations to organisational design.
• Build and evolve HR processes that are simple, human, and help people thrive.
• Support and coach managers on all aspects of people leadership.
• Oversee compliance with UK employment law while keeping things practical, not bureaucratic.
• Support recruitment and onboarding/offboarding for our UK-based roles, streamlining tools and processes to make hiring and training seamless.
• Keep our HR systems, employee data, and reporting accurate, insightful and compliant.
• Support the smooth running of our perks and benefits offerings, and compliance training.
• Support team projects in engagement, L&D, compliance, and talent management.
• Play a key role in embedding our values into everything we do.
• Be the calm, trusted voice when complex or sensitive people issues arise.

Requirements

• You’ve got significant senior HR experience (ideally in fast-moving, growth businesses).
• You’re fully up to speed on UK employment law and know how to apply it with pragmatism.
• You’ve worked both strategically and operationally in people roles - and enjoy switching between the two.
• You’re fluent in English, with a sharp pen and confident voice.
• You’re excited by the messy, creative, entrepreneurial side of a business in scale-up mode.
• You’re commercial at heart and you see HR as a driver of business success, not red tape.
• You know your way around HR tools and systems.
• Bonus points if you’ve thrived in an unstructured environment where you had to build from scratch.

Benefits

• A competitive salary - we're very proud to be a Real Living Wage employer
• 26 days holiday and bank holidays (you can buy or sell holiday too)
• A £300 annual personal development budget - we're passionate about supporting people to follow their dreams inside or outside of Naked
• £450 every year to treat yourself to some of our delicious wines...all in the name of research, of course
• We want to do our bit for the community and give everyone paid leave to volunteer
• We have Wellbeing Champions and access to mindfulness resources including the Headspace app
• Enhanced parental leave
• Honeymoon leave - newlyweds get an extra week of annual leave
• We like to surprise and delight you with lovely thoughtful gifts including Naked Wine and lots more...