Lean
People Partner
Lean is building its People Partnering function for the first time, and this role is where it starts. As our first People Partner, you will be the strategic bridge between the business and our People team, embedded across departments, trusted by leaders, and accountable for turning people challenges into scalable solutions. You will own our performance management cycle, build our manager enablement programme from the ground up, and serve as the go-to advisor for high-trust people matters. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at a company that is scaling fast and needs its people infrastructure to keep up.
What you’ll own
- Act as a trusted People advisor to department heads across all functions, from engineering to finance to commercial
- Own performance review cycles end-to-end: timeline, calibration, and execution across a ~170-person organisation
- Design and deliver Lean’s manager enablement programme, including toolkits, training, and ongoing coaching
- Advise on high-trust people matters including ER cases, terminations, and policy interpretation
- Drive promotion processes, growth planning, and succession strategies
- Design org structures, team models, and job architecture to support Lean’s continued growth
- Own engagement survey execution and follow-up, ensuring action at the manager level
- Identify people-related risks across the organisation and propose clear, data-informed solutions
- Collaborate cross-functionally to build scalable, repeatable People frameworks
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