HR Manager

TALA has been on a rocket ship since its founding in 2019 by entrepreneur Grace Beverley. Built on largely organic socials today we are a digitalfirst multichannel womens athleisure brand with a multifaceted growth and retention strategy. At just 5 years old were trading on impressive numbers including profitability. Off the back of our success weve just closed a 5m fundraise round with world class institutional investors garnering global media attention and are poised for our next stage of growth.

Were looking for an HR Manager to join our growing team. As the first dedicated Human Resources employee in the Company were looking for a selfstarter with a growth mindset to support our high performing team and culture. This role will support all aspects of HR day to day from supporting the management of teams to the culture our policies and practices. You will report to the CEO to start off with but will be a selfstarter and good at working autonomously.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking for their next challenge in a wellfunded fast paced and high growth startup!

This is a full time role based at our office in SW London.

Tasks

Day to day you will:

• Provide employee and management support on human resources related matters policies & procedures and employment law
• Manage and develop the employee lifecycle from recruitment practices onboarding performance development through to offboarding.
• Develop regular reporting practices and dashboards to support informed decision making and business cases
• Ensure our ways of working are clearly communicated across the organisation on parr with the best of the industry and in compliance with latest employment laws (including publishing and making necessary amendments to Employee Handbooks policies)
• Support Company and team recruitment efforts at all levels (from software to recruiter relationships and beyond) for maximum effectiveness and ability to recruit exceptional talent
• Manage payroll actions in partnership with Head of Finance inclusive of any contractual changes deductions and statutory obligations.
• Develop HR programs (Benefits Leave Administration Health & Safety Payroll etc) aligned with company culture and local legislation
• Design & propose Company performance compensation and incentive process and rules and support its execution by management to ensure market competitiveness and reflect our values business goals and the needs of our people
• Champion and drive the culture at TALA from high performance to fun including social events opportunities for collaboration cross functional working and enrichment
• Champion a diverse inclusive and equitable workplace and design and implement practices to support equal access to achievement
• Develop a TALA internship and workstudy program to support our community and their start in professional life
• Manage diversity inclusivity and gender bias training alongside industry specific training in antibribery anticorruption competition and data protection
• Maintain knowledge of employment regulations best practices and law and propose any required changes to management
• Conduct investigations into employee relations issues and partner with business leaders on resolutions
• Maintain HR admin from offer letters to employee contact details contracts equipment and beyond

Requirements

You will be:

• a people person leading with kindness and integrity
• someone with fullspectrum HR experience including 57 years in a senior People role. Bonus if you have built a team or department at a growing organisation
• able to support both HQ and Retail environments and navigate rapid and continuous growth
• good at identifying bottlenecks relating to your department and coming forward with solutions
• happy to work hard good at prioritising and communicating
• Good at operating autonomously delivering results with little supervision in a dynamic and ambiguous environment
• deeply understanding of designing highly effective recruitment engagement performance development and management practices particularly developing high performing teams and employees and will have a track record of implementation
• thoughtful and analytical utilising qualitative and quantitative information testing assumptions and balancing business and moral imperatives
• deeply knowledgeable of employment law across the UK and related business risks and keen to continuously develop this knowledge in the UK and other markets
• someone with previous work experience in Retail / consumer goods bonus if in stores

Benefits

What we can offer:

• Competitive salary and package
• Fun startup working culture
• A sense of mission and contribution to the greater good
• Employee discount and allowance on the best sustainable athleisure clothing in the UK

About us:

Our shopping habits are driven by global powerhouse fast fashion brands churning out hundreds of thousands of cheap clothes every day telling us we must shop and wear the latest styles.

TALA is the brand you always knew you wanted but could never quite find responsibly made activewear and offduty styles at competitive prices without the need to compromise on highperformance designs and flattering fits. TALA was founded in May 2019 by fitness entrepreneur Grace Beverley to disrupt the fast fashion and activewear industries after years of working in the space.
We are TALA. Flattering fits you feel good in and good about.