Head of People and Culture UK & Ireland Head of People and Culture UK & Ireland

Head of People and Culture UK & Ireland Head of People and Culture UK & Ireland

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Oatly, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 16 Jul | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 40e5d510cd594d8e981e4ca119dc8311

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On this site, we always set cookies that are strictly necessary, meaning they are necessary for the site to function properly. If you consent to it, we will also set other types of cookies. You can provide or withdraw your consent to the different types of cookies using the toggles below. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time, by clicking the link "Manage Cookies", which is always available at the bottom of the site. To learn more about what the different types of cookies do, how your data is used when they are set etc, see our Cookie Policy. Strictly necessary These cookies are necessary to make the site work properly, and are always set when you visit the site. Vendors Teamtailor Analytics These cookies collect information to help us understand how the site is being used. Vendors Teamtailor Marketing These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. In some cases, they also deliver additional functions on the site. Vendors Youtube, Linkedin, Meta People & Transformation · London, We have an exciting opportunity for a strategic, values-driven Head of People and Culture for the UK and Ireland arm of the Swedish Oat Milk company - Oatly. This role holds end-to-end accountability for shaping and delivering an exceptional employee experience, from talent planning and culture to operations and reward, ensuring that our people practices support business growth, inclusion, and purpose. You'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, partnering closely with our leadership team and people managers to build a healthy, high-performing and human-centred organisation.Key responsibilities:People Strategy & Leadership: Drive and lead the People strategy in line with business goals, acting as a key member of the UK & Ireland Core Leadership Team with a people-first mindset.Engagement and culture: Define and run initiatives that build on our strong, inclusive, high-performance culture rooted in our behaviours and guiding principles.Talent Management & Development: Own and lead workforce planning and performance management, alongside delivering learning and development programmes that support growth and succession at every level.Reward & Recognition: Partner with our central reward specialists to localise the reward strategy-covering salary frameworks, benefits, benchmarking, and incentives-while implementing recognition initiatives that celebrate values and performance.Business Partnering & Change: Act as a trusted advisor to leaders and managers on team effectiveness, structure, and leadership development, while supporting change management through clear communication, planning, and stakeholder engagement. Serve as the escalation point for employee relations, partnering with legal as needed, and build manager capability across performance, development, conflict resolution, and engagement.Wellbeing: Drive strategic wellbeing initiatives and infrastructure to support employee health and sustainability.Manage our Culture and Talent Partner: One direct report who has ownership across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding and offboarding. He also ensures our HR admin is in top shape and manages our office and facilities.Global partner: Work with the global People and Culture partners in our central team and in other markets, to collaborate and align the people function.

  • You have a generalist HR background, with demonstrable experience leading a People/ HR function in a fast paced business.
  • You can operate at a high level, but are also happy to roll your sleeves up and get stuck into the day to day.
  • You know how to turn a business strategy into a people strategy into initiatives that actually work (and stick), with an ability to think on short-term and long-term time horizons.
  • Company culture is your jam-you've got experience building it, shaped it, and kept it thriving, even when things get messy.
  • You're a trusted advisor to leaders, with the kind of calm, practical people-wisdom and expertise they'll listen to.
  • You're a pro at (and enjoy) wearing multiple hats, so you can go from coaching a colleague to a performance management meeting to running a workshop to leading a social to updating a spreadsheet… and repeat.
  • Change doesn't scare you-you've helped teams navigate it with clarity, empathy, and solid planning.
  • You have expertise in talent management, employee development, and performance management in dynamic environments.
  • You're a pro in showing and balancing care and candour in your messaging.
  • Whilst we don't mandate office use, we need someone who's able to commute to Farringdon and be present in the office.
  • Bonus points for…
  • Experience working in/ with Ireland.
  • Any people focused qualifications, such as a CIPD.
  • Finally, we hope that you share our values and have a great interest to carry out our mission in order to make the world a little bit better.

    Oatly AB and our selected partners use cookies and similar technologies (together "cookies") that are necessary to present this website, and to ensure you get the best experience of it. If you consent to it, we will also use cookies for analytics and marketing purposes., Phew! Well done if you've got this far. We're glad we've still got your attention because we've got one last super important point to make., Oatly is a company built on the idea of change. Our mission is to make it easy for people to eat better and live healthier lives without recklessly taxing the planet's resources. It's why we come to work every day. With head office in Malmö and production in Sweden, Netherlands, China and the US, our products are available in almost 30 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia.

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