About this role
Explore your future career 🔭
As an integral member of our HR International team, you will serve as the trusted HR Business Partner for our UK, Belgium, Netherlands, and UAE locations (representing a total headcount of ~50 Malters). Partnering closely with local Country Representatives, your core mission will be to accompany, drive, and execute all HR-related processes to support business growth and reinforce our culture across these key regions.
Key Responsibilities ✨
- HR Strategy Execution & Data Application: Translate global HR strategies into actionable local initiatives. Partner with Centers of Excellence (TA, Rewards, People Ops, L&D) and Functional HR to deploy specialized people processes and compensation cycles across your scope.
- Talent & Performance Management: Act as the primary partner and coach to regional managers on team communication, high-performance management, talent mapping, and pipeline building. Own end-to-end local performance reviews and career progression frameworks.
- Legal Compliance & Employee Relations: Oversee all local labor law requirements, employee relations, and social benefits in coordination with the HR Director and external legal counsel, with a strong focus on UK regulations.
- Workplace Management & Culture Custodian: Take ownership of the local office environment and workplace management within budget, in partnership with local Country Reps. Drive initiatives that reinforce Malt’s core cultural pillars across your territories.
- Business Partnership & Market Intelligence: Advise local leaders on organizational design and budget management. Analyze employee data (attrition, job levels) to guide decision-making. Network within the local scale-up & Tech HR ecosystem to gather market intelligence that informs Malt’s strategic evolution.
About you 🧑🚀
- Experience: Proven experience as an HRBP / People Partner in a fast-paced scale-up, Tech/SaaS environment, or international matrix structure.
- Legal & HR Mastery: Excellent, deep knowledge of UK labor law regulations (exposure to Belgian, Dutch, or UAE labor frameworks is a strong plus).
- Business Acumen & Change Management: Strong understanding of financial and operational drivers, with a track record of guiding teams through organizational change and controlling people/workplace costs.
- People Coaching & Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to empower managers, guide leadership development, and handle sensitive employee relations confidently.
- Mindset & Values: Data-informed, pragmatic, and eager to balance strategic advisory with hands-on execution, while embodying Malt’s core values ( Simplicity, Dream big - Act big, Joy, Community driven ).
- Languages: Fluent in English (mandatory); fluency in French or Dutch is a plus.
How to join the mission? 🚀
- First call with our Talent Acquisition team to discuss your background, motivations, and answer your questions (45 minutes).
- Interview with our HR Director to dive deeper into your HR experience and operational scope (60 minutes).
- Home assignment / Business Case evaluated by our Chief Human Resources Officer, Barbara Marazia, to assess your technical expertise and strategic vision.
- Final interview with a member of the executive team / local leadership to discuss long-term alignment.
Life on planet Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫
🤝 Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other onboardees at our office in Paris.
💻 Remote work: Hybrid remote policy - 3 days office / 2 days home-office.
🏖️ Annual leave: 30 days/year.
📆 Sabbatical: 1 month paid sabbatical once you've been with Malt for 3 years.
📈 Stock options: Every Malter is entitled to stock options.
🩺 Private health insurance: Rewarded for healthy living by our UK provider Bupa.
🚴 Cycle to work scheme: Save on a bike and equipment.
🚊 Season ticket loan: Save on public transport.
💸 Pension: Malt contributes 5% through Aviva.
🐶 Dog friendly office: In the heart of London!
📚 Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to your career, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow.
Ready? Get your ticket to Malt 🪐
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