Lead People Partner - Europe

About the role

The People Partnering team at Tide plays a pivotal role in driving business success by acting as strategic advisors and coaches to leaders at all levels. We provide expert guidance on organisational design, talent development, employee relations, and engagement, ensuring a positive and high-performance culture. Embedded within the business, we use data-driven insights to shape policies, pre-empt workforce challenges, and lead high-impact initiatives that enable Tideans to do work they love. We are looking for an experienced and highly strategic HR professional to take on a dual role, serving as a Lead People Partner for our UK/Europe region while simultaneously acting as the HR Country Lead across our European operating countries. You will act as a strategic advisor to some of our most senior leaders, driving organisational effectiveness, talent development, and culture, while ensuring the business maintains rigorous compliance with labour law across multiple jurisdictions. You will be instrumental in enabling Tide's growth journey, building capability in our People Partnering team, owning our country-level policies. Strategic People Partnering & Leadership Strategic Advisor: Serve as a trusted strategic partner to several VP/SVP leaders and their leadership teams (potentially including a customer operations client group), providing expert guidance on organisational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and performance management. Team Coaching & Development: Coach and mentor the People Partnering team for the UK/Europe region, fostering a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and professional growth through knowledge sharing and best practice adoption. Driving Engagement: Partner with leaders and managers to continuously improve employee engagement and satisfaction, including owning and managing the end-to-end bi-annual employee engagement survey process and action tracking. Talent & Culture: Develop and implement plans for talent development and retention. Influence effective change management and serve as an ambassador for all DEI initiatives, ensuring diversity and inclusion are at the forefront of all people discussions. Country-Level Employee Relations & Compliance Project Leadership: Lead ER workstreams for new entity launches, ensuring readiness on policy, compliance, and consultation requirements, including the setup and oversight of works councils where needed. Policy Ownership: Develop, maintain, and update all country-specific ER policies, processes, templates, and guidance materials in line with changing legislation and best practice, including preparing for new entity launches. Legal Monitoring & Compliance: Proactively monitor and communicate employment law developments across all European operating countries. Partner with Legal and Risk & Compliance to ensure we have appropriate programs for human rights, labour rights, and modern slavery. Capability Building: Identify knowledge gaps in the People Partner team regarding ER and design and deliver (or source) training on high-impact ER topics, including consultation processes and works council engagement.

Requirements

• Experience & Knowledge
• 8-10+ years of progressive HR experience, with a strong Employee Relations focus/specialism along with broad generalist experience.
• Proven track record of direct partnership with senior leaders and experience leading HR for a client group, ideally in a sales & marketing or similar fast-paced environment.
• Expert understanding of employment law and consultation frameworks across Germany
• Strong understanding / awareness of employment law

Additional Information

A BOUT TIDE At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love. Tide facts: Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs Over 2 million members: 900,000 UK and 1,100,000 in India and growing rapidly Over $300 million raised in funding Over 2,800 Tideans globally Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India's Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026 We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg

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