People & Talent Manager

About Eden
Buying or selling a home is one of life’s biggest milestones - yet conveyancing can still feel complicated, slow and unclear. Eden is changing that. We’re building a digital-first experience powered by exceptional people, designed to make everything simple, clear and fast. We're at an exciting stage in our journey. Today we're a team of around 30 people. Over the next two years we expect to double in size as we continue to scale our technology, operations and customer experience functions. To support that growth, we're looking for a commercially-minded People & Talent Manager to own and evolve our people agenda.

The Opportunity
This is a high-impact standalone role at a pivotal stage in Eden's growth. Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll lead all aspects of people, talent and culture across the business. You'll be responsible for attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people while building the structures, processes and ways of working that will support Eden as we scale.

This is not a role for someone who wants to specialise in one area of HR. Nor is it a role for someone who relies on a large HR team to deliver. We're looking for someone who enjoys operating independently, taking ownership and driving outcomes.

You'll need to be equally comfortable discussing organisational priorities with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team as you are personally delivering recruitment campaigns, supporting with people issues, improving systems and building scalable processes.

The successful candidate will combine strong HR fundamentals with excellent recruitment capability, commercial judgement and a builder operator mindset. You'll enjoy creating structure where needed, solving problems pragmatically and helping a growing business navigate the opportunities and challenges that come with scaling. This role offers significant visibility, influence and autonomy, alongside the opportunity to grow with the business as Eden continues its ambitious expansion.

What Success Looks Like
Over the next 24 months you'll:

Help scale the business from approximately 30 to 60+ employees

Build a people function that supports growth without creating unnecessary bureaucracy

Strengthen Eden's ability to attract and hire exceptional talent

Establish robust people processes and systems that scale with the business

Develop leadership capability across the management team

Create a high-performance culture aligned to Eden's ambitions

Become a trusted advisor to the CEO and Senior Leadership Team

Why Join Eden?

Direct partnership with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team

Significant autonomy, ownership and influence

Opportunity to shape the people function and culture of a growing business

Broad role spanning talent, people, culture and organisational development

Fast-paced, ambitious and collaborative environment

Opportunity to make a visible impact on business performance and growth

Genuine scope to grow with the organisation as Eden continues to scale

Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition & Employer Brand

Own and deliver recruitment across the business, from workforce planning and sourcing through to offer management and onboarding

Partner with hiring managers to identify talent requirements and define effective hiring strategies

Personally drive sourcing and headhunting activity for key and hard-to-fill roles

Build talent pipelines to support planned business growth

Ensure a high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment process

Develop Eden's employer brand and employee value proposition

Manage relationships with recruitment partners where required

Own and continually improve the applicant tracking system

People Operations

Act as Eden's trusted people lead, supporting leaders and managers across the full employee lifecycle

Maintain and develop people policies, processes and frameworks that are fit for a scaling business

Ensure compliance with employment legislation and HR best practice

Oversee onboarding and offboarding processes

Manage HR systems, employee records and people data

Coordinate payroll activities alongside Finance

Drive automation and continuous improvement across people processes

Leadership, Performance & Culture

Partner closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team on organisational priorities and business challenges

Use people metrics and insight to identify risks and opportunities, providing the CEO and SLT with insight from people reporting

Coach and support managers on leadership, performance and employee relations matters

Lead and evolve performance management processes

Lead employee engagement initiatives and action planning

Support organisational change and business transformation activity

Strengthen internal communications and employee experience

Learning, Development & Growth

Introduce scalable learning and development initiatives that support business growth

Support career development and progression across the organisation

Contribute to succession planning and leadership development

Essential

Strong generalist HR experience across the full employee lifecycle

Experience operating as the lead HR contact for a business, division or business unit

Strong recruitment and talent acquisition experience, including direct sourcing, headhunting and end-to-end hiring

Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing decision-making

Strong employee relations experience and confidence managing complex people matters

Experience building or significantly improving people processes, frameworks and ways of working

Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice

Experience working within a growing, changing or entrepreneurial environment

Comfortable operating as a standalone contributor without a supporting HR team

Strong organisational and project management skills

Experience using people data and insight to support business decisions

CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

Experience within a scale-up, technology, professional services or private equity-backed business

Experience implementing HR systems, ATS platforms or people technology

Experience developing employer branding and employee value proposition initiatives

Working at Eden is different - we invest heavily in culture, wellbeing and support. You'll enjoy:

Financial & Career

Salary - £55k to £60k (dependent on experience)

Bonus: up to 17% of base salary based on performance metrics

Significant investment in your learning and development

Home working setup

Flexibility & Wellbeing

Hybrid working - at least 2 days per week in office

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Option to buy or sell 5 days of annual leave

3-day company shutdown between Christmas and New Year (reserved from annual leave)

Private health insurance

Group life assurance

Wellbeing fund that contributes £25 per month towards an activity that promotes your mental or physical wellbeing

Monthly pastoral 1:1 support

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