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 digital-first, multichannel women’s athleisure brand with a multi-faceted growth and retention strategy. At just 5 years old, we’re trading on impressive numbers, including profitability. Off the back of our success, we’ve just closed a £5m fundraise round with world class institutional investors, garnering global media attention and are poised for our next stage of growth.

We’re looking for an HR Manager to join our growing team. As the first dedicated Human Resources employee in the Company, we’re looking for a self-starter 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 self-starter and good at working autonomously.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking for their next challenge in a well-funded, fast paced, and high growth start-up!

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

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 work-study program to support our community and their start in professional life
• Manage diversity, inclusivity, and gender bias training, alongside industry specific training in anti-bribery, anti-corruption, 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

You will be:

• a people person – leading with kindness and integrity
• someone with full-spectrum HR experience including 5-7 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

What we can offer:

• Competitive salary and package
• Fun, start-up 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 off-duty styles at competitive prices without the need to compromise on high-performance 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.