HR Director, MOTORS

• If you are a strategic HR Leader who also enjoys day to day hands on execution, we’d love to hear from you!
• You’ll have proven experience as a HR Director in a high growth tech or marketplace scale-up/start-up
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law, HR best practice, and compliance combined with CIPD qualification at level 5 or above
• Experience across all areas of HR from talent acquisition to organisational development and culture building
• You’ll be experienced in scaling HR functions in fast paced, ever changing, rapidly growing companies. Consequently, you competently navigate the big and the small rolling your sleeves up daily to get things done
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, working with founders, exec teams, and investors
• Experience in due diligence investment process

• We have an amazing opportunity for a skilled HR Director to join us at an exciting point of reset
• You’ll lead the People and Talent Strategy for a fast growth tech scale-up with circa 100FTE, acting as a strategic partner to the leadership team
• Our workforce planning strategy is a mix of Buy, Borrow and Build – your role will be to develop and execute plans to ensure scalability
• Our goal is to quadruple our revenue in the coming years, you’ll play a key role in ensuring Organisational Design, Culture, Talent Management and HR Operations support this
• With committed long-term investors, a new leadership team on board and a marketplace buzzing with opportunity it’s a fantastic time to join us!
• You’ll join us as a Gumtree’s first permanent HR hire, following a period of interim leadership to see us through the company buy-out
• You’ll own the full remit of HR and Talent, developing a strategy that is aligned to business goals and supports our company vision
• Your broad scope of responsibilities includes all the moments that matter within the Employee Lifecycle from Talent Acquisition and Onboarding to Talent Management, Organisational Development & Culture, HR Operations & Compliance, Compensation, Benefits & Reward, Employee Relations as well as HR Analytics
• To help you deliver, you’ll get to define the HR roadmap, including hiring a small but mighty team around you
• This is a fantastic opportunity to deliver organisational change and impact in a business with a huge amount of unlocked potential

• We usually respond within two weeks

• Discretionary Bonus
• Pension Scheme (up to 9% Employer Contribution)
• Employee recognition scheme with great financial prizes ££
• 25 days holiday per year growing with length of service
• Hybrid and UK Remote working depending on role
• Generous Family Friendly Leave
• Free counseling and support (for when you might need it)
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• Private Dental insurance cover & Cashback
• Online private GP service
• Generous sick pay support
• Life assurance policy (x4 Life Assurance)
• Social & Inclusion Calendar - packed with events
• Free food and beverage in our office locations

Used car marketplace MOTORS has had quite the journey, having been founded by a partnership between the Daily Mail and General Trust before its acquisition by Cox Automotive and, subsequently, Gumtree. Now, it’s an independent used car marketplace that hosts hundreds of thousands of used cars, as well as reviews, guides and advice.