Head of People Success

**About Systemiq**

Systemiq, the system-change company, was founded to drive the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, by transforming markets and business models in five key systems: nature and food, materials and circularity, energy, urban areas, and sustainable finance.

This means re-imagining our industries, re-configuring the world of energy, and regenerating the ecosystems around us. By addressing systemic failures in these areas, Systemiq aims to unlock economic opportunities that benefit business, society, and the environment.

A certified B Corp, Systemiq combines strategic advisory with high-impact, on-the-ground work, and partners with business, finance, policy-makers and civil society to deliver system change.

Since our start in 2016, we have grown to more than 390 people working across locations in Brazil, Germany, France, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the UK.

**Position**:
**Do you want to be part of the change?**

As part of the Systemiq global People team, this new Head of People Success is pivotal to the global talent team's successful growth strategy. You will need to care about the Systemiq vision and employees' careers. Find creative solutions to your challenges to provide an environment where our people can thrive. Collaborate internally and externally to increase Systemiq’s employer brand and employee experience. Look for opportunities to change, develop and continuously improve our global talent development offering.

**Who is leading our Head of People Success**

As Chief People Officer, Fernanda Alonso-Gautrais works to ensure a safe, supportive and challenging work environment to attract and nurture diverse system change leaders at Systemiq. She is an international leader with great experience in delivering impactful and performance-driven people strategies for B-Corp, mission-driven and tech scale-ups.

**Primary Responsibilities**

From day one, you’ll hit the ground running as the Head of People Success

to ensure our people remain our competitive advantage.

**Performance**
- Associate performance review and development action planning
- Evolving our performance management practices and process to align Systemiq’s vision and culture
- Work in close collaboration Systemiq’s Academy to ensure all development actions are delivered in line with the People strategy and the company’s strategic anchors
- Lead a global holistic approach for performance which is linked to career planning and mobility
- Manage the continuous evolution of the performance framework to ensure it effectively embeds the Systemiq Leadership Capability framework to meet the demands of the business
- Communications strategy for the global performance cycle

**Employee Relations**
- Develop and implement strategies to maintain a positive work environment, promote employee engagement, and enhance overall employee satisfaction
- Act as a trusted advisor offering guidance and support on a wide range of employee relations matters, including conflict resolution, performance

**Project Development Managers**
- Design and continuously improve the allocation and development of the Development Managers, including coaching capability and framework, education for the transition to a continuous actionable feedback culture
- Toolkit to support the Project Development Managers to coach on employee resilience and wellbeing

**Succession, Career Planning & Promotion**
- Partner succession planning and the senior leadership team talent pool to contribute to Systemiq’s human-centred leadership bench; including advising on opportunities, risks, and barriers
- Lead the bi-annual promotion review of high-potential talent and post-promotion induction
- Measures to ensure that succession, talent pipelines, talent pools, and career planning is inclusive and free of bias
- Develop future-focused career planning criteria and development plans for each job band/specialism, which is evident to our employees how they can progress in Systemiq

**DEIB**
- The opportunity to deploy one of our most important strategic business initiatives, in partnership with the Global Talent Director and Global HR Director to evolve the design of our DEIB strategy and ensure that it is aligned to the Systemiq vision, culture, and global reputation
- Data analytics and reporting to ensure that we are evolving and delivering and our future-focused

**Requirements**:
**About You**

**Are excited. **About contributing to the Global Talent strategy to provide products and services to ensure high-quality human-centered leadership, where our employees can reach their potential and thrive

**Have a Plan.** And know how to get buy-in and support for the deployment, embedding, and sustainable utilisation of any operations intervention

**People in Numbers.** You use data-driven techniques to solve people problems

**Understand that change can be hard.** You have a working knowledge of change management and the people