📣 A bit about the role.

As a People Director you will be the key People partner for our global foundational teams (Finance, Tech, Customer Love, Brand & Creative), as well as partner our UK Commercial Directors

Your role is to deeply understand the ambitions, challenges and growth plans of your stakeholders, translating these into People needs and shaping the People Plan. You will contract with Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to align delivery against business priorities, while taking full accountability for the successful execution of the People Plan in your areas.

This role requires you to act as a critical friend to senior leaders; supporting and constructively challenging their thinking to help them define role success, build high-performing teams and set ambitious goals. You will also lead and develop your local People team (People Leads, Payroll, and People Experience) to ensure the delivery of brilliant basics and a consistently excellent People experience.

The People Director is part of the People Leadership Team, reporting directly to the CPO. 

🌱 Key Responsibilities

• Business Partner with Global Functional Leads and UK Commercial Directors; building trusted peer relationships to enable high performance across their teams.
• Translate business ambitions into actionable People Plans, ensuring these feed into CoE priorities and are delivered effectively.
• Partner with CoEs as a peer: shaping strategy, agreeing delivery priorities and contracting expectations with business stakeholders.
• Lead, coach and develop your direct reports, ensuring they are empowered, supported and growing their skill set.
• Ensure the consistent delivery of brilliant basics including employment relations, payroll, compliance, performance processes and employee experience.
• Influence senior leaders with data and insight: build, interpret, and present key People metrics to shape decisions and measure impact.
• Champion DEI, wellbeing, and engagement initiatives as a cultural carrier, embedding our values and ways of working into every aspect of the People lifecycle
• Contribute to the wider strategic evolution of the People Team, supporting the design of scalable, innovative processes that serve all markets.

👋 A bit about you.

• Extensive experience in senior HR/People leadership roles, ideally in a fast-paced, international environment.
• Proven track record as a senior business partner with the confidence to challenge, influence, and shape decisions at exec level.
• Strong leadership capability with experience developing and enabling People managers and teams.
• Excellent communicator with an ability to simplify complexity, build trust quickly and influence.
• Data-driven mindset, able to translate metrics and insights into action.
• Deep knowledge of UK employment law and strong commercial awareness.
• Comfortable balancing strategic influence with operational delivery, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
• Inclusive, values-led leadership style with a genuine passion for people and culture.

📢 Our interview process:

• Application review
• Initial call (45 minutes): Introductory chat with our Talent Partner
• Technical interview (60 minutes): Remote interview where you’ll be asked a number of scenario and competency based questions.
• Chief People Officer interview (45 minutes): In person interview in our office in White City where you’ll meet our CPO who will be looking to learn more about your commercial knowledge and alignment to our values.
• Final interviews (60 minutes) : In person interview with our Co-Founder where you’ll be asked a blend of competency and values based questions.

ℹ️ Logistics:

• This team works 3 days per week from our West London office (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) and 2 days from home. This is non negotiable, so please only apply if you’re within a reasonable commute of London.
• We reserve the right to close the position if we receive a lot of applications.We’re a small recruitment team so do bear with us - we aim to respond to all applicants personally.
• We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
• We are not looking for recruitment agency support for this role.

🐶 A bit about us. 

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 

 🙌 A bit about what we offer.

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service 
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget 
• Butternut Box employee discount 
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Co-working office space. 
• Flexible working hours and work from home options 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

❗️A few things to note: 

• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

#LI-Hybrid