People and Culture Partner

People and Culture Partner

The IN Group

City of London, Hybrid

Basic Salary + Bonus

About The In Group:

We’re all about people - especially our own, which is where the Culture team plays a huge part. We’re all very different, but we’re all experts at what we do. We share a desire to make meaningful connections with clients, with candidates and with each other. We work together to make things happen – and of course, we make time for plenty of fun along the way!

The In Group is comprised of our 6 brands within the recruitment and talent space: Investigo, Definia, Caraffi, InX, BioTalent and Sigma Labs. Each business is a leader in its’ field – Investigo in Recruitment, Definia in Consultancy, Caraffi in Talent Solutions, InX in Executive Search, BioTalent in Life Sciences Recruitment, and Sigma Labs in Graduate Train-to- Deploy Software and Data solutions.

The ingredients that make us a success story lies in hiring ambitious, commercially-minded and talented people, and in return we offer a fun, professional environment and a platform to be brilliant in their chosen career path.

About the Culture team:

Passion, integrity, and inclusiveness are core to how we work, as experts in our chosen specialisms. The Culture team sits within the People and Culture Team (PACT) and is made up of four teams; HR, Learning, Talent Acquisition and of course Culture. We’re passionate about our people, and work in an incredibly high performing, fun and supportive environment.

We have boundless ideas, energy and pace, fuelled by one another, which creates a brilliant and inspiring workplace.

We made a promise to our ambitious people; to create a game-changing employee experience that empowers them to build extraordinary careers. We do this by continuously reviewing and enhancing our people-experience at every point, for all roles, in all teams, and at all levels.

Experience needed:

We operate within an environment that has a fair degree of change and ambiguity. We know that if you can demonstrate the following attributes, you will be hugely successful, and we’d love to chat to you:

• Experience of internal communications organisation & delivery is key to this position
• Interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to work confidently with multiple stakeholders.
• Emotional intelligence – connecting people impact on complex pieces of work.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail and ability to think laterally whilst focused on delivering a result.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for content creation to deliver internal communications pieces with accuracy & flair.
• Data analysis and presentation to gather data from multiple sources and present it in a succinct and compelling way, that paints a broad and accurate picture for HoC, to aid decision making.
• Working at pace – a completer with the ability to prioritise by understanding the bigger picture impact.
• Employee experience realisation – ability to walk through the employee experience ahead of time, to design the right solution that is inclusive and speaks to everyone.
• Direct accountability & ownership to deliver interventions and engagement pieces; and through influencing and holding stakeholders to account where applicable, at all levels.
• Solution-led - identify issues ahead and relish problem solving to create alternative solutions
• Strong innovation and creativity, capability to design, develop, implement and evaluate engagement solutions, working with forums and committees to champion.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and make positive use of the opportunities that arise from that
• Integrity to engage, communicate, and work with transparency, honesty and humility.
• Supportive, team focused attitude – working as a team not as an individual to support each other in challenge and celebrate together in successes, learning from each other

About the role:

There are three main areas of focus for the Culture team and this position:

1. Continually enhance our game-changing employee experience across the whole employee lifecycle; enhancing wellbeing and engagement for all.
2. Delivery of Internal Communications, Events & People Engagement initiatives.
3. Delivery of our ESG framework (Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity, Charity & Community, Environment & Sustainability and Wellbeing & Engagement) that underpins our business.

The People and Culture Partner role is pivotal to the success of this function, and is hugely varied, influential and exciting. You will, under the guidance of the Head of Culture:

• Forge strong and credible relationships with people across The IN Group and really understand what our Culture stands for, so you can challenge, influence and enhance what is required
• Execute our Internal Communications strategy, with an organised and considered approach to audience, brands and group, in an efficient and structured way.
• Work in partnership with the other key people across the business such as: the People and Culture team, ESG Committee leads and forums, using thought leadership, to help push the boundaries of thinking.
• Identify, review and evolve all the things that influence and shape our culture, and how we can maximise their effectiveness.
• Collaborate as a thought partner to the Head of Culture, providing compelling insight and data to support recommendations and challenge.
• Creation of data summaries across benefits usage and workplace utilisation to recommend enhancements and interventions for the benefit of our People experience and ROI.
• Deliver CMI (competitive market intelligence) insights in partnership with Talent Acquisition to recommend cultural enhancements that seek to stay ahead of industry competition and support our Employee Value Proposition.
• End to end delivery of the Group-wide employee engagement survey.
• Engage external speakers spanning wellbeing, L&D, DEI, and Performance Culture in partnership with committees and HoC.
• Design and deliver people experiences across all stages of the People Experience in partnership with key stakeholders, including the presentation and delivery of the group wide induction.
• Work in partnership with our group Head of Facilities to support our carbon reduction plan as well as mandatory regulatory reporting requirements, such as ESOS, SECR and Ecovadis.
• Provide counsel to HoC on Environmental & Sustainability strategy to create a sustainable, realistic and measurable 10 year plan.

What you will get in return:

• We offer free private healthcare via Vitality, eye tests, discounted gym memberships and more
• A fun, supportive, caring, collaborative environment
• Christmas close without using your annual leave - time for you to spend with your loved ones!
• Flexible working, we follow a hybrid model of a minimum 3 days in the office
• High achievers’ rewards, family days, various weekly, quarterly, yearly fun events, and more
• Opportunity to get involved in different communities in the business like, our Wellness committee and DEI committee
• We have a generous referral scheme for talent you recommend to us
• Wellbeing and Engagement committee
• We love to give back - last year we raised £92,000 for charity through our Big Investigo Give initiative