People Partner

Job title: People Partner

Location: Paris - Hybrid 

Salary: €62,500 - €77,500

Team: People Partnering

Reporting To: Director of People Partnering 

Closing date for applications: Monday 13th April 

This role is based in Paris, France and requires existing right to work in the EU.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Leveraging Data, AI, and real-time decision-making we turn energy complexity into growth opportunities for our partners. 

By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable and affordable.

With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

You’ll be joining the People Team at Kaluza - a team spread across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Melbourne and now Paris!

You’ll report our Director of People Partnering but will have close relationships across the People & Tech functions as well as the wider business.

What will I be doing?

You will be a strategic partner to the Technology area of business, enabling our company’s vision and strategy to be realised, in partnership with our Technology Heads of Department and People Leaders.  Additionally, you will be the key People Partner for our France based employees. 

You will be a coach and advisor to that community, be a master at working with others across the People Team and the wider organisation to leverage the whole team’s expertise and get stuff done. 

Customer Success:

• Ensuring the Technology function and French employees have an excellent experience working with the People Team
• Delivering the People Strategy for Technology extended leadership, connecting with others in our People Team to successfully deliver the relevant areas (e.g. hiring, communications)
• Lead discussions and debate with data, formulating insights and recommendations to inform workforce strategy development 

People Strategy:

• Be a strategic people partner to our Technology function and French employees, delivering plans and approaches that support our business objectives. 
• Contribute to the People Experience roadmap, as well as broader People Strategy for Kaluza by providing your insight from your key stakeholders.

Organisational Design:

• Ensure that the functions you partner with have a future-proof yet adaptable organisational design that enables Kaluza to meet its goals. 
• Influence the career framework to optimise for internal mobility. 

Performance + Reward: 

• Facilitate local discussions for France and in partnership for Technology on performance in the form of ‘Team Health Checks’:
• Calibrating local performance expectations; 
• Working with leaders on a high quality of goal setting
• Using performance data to inform understanding about where our talent opportunities are in the business.
• Facilitate local discussions with leaders on how the Pay Review process applies to their area and how we best reward high performance.

Employee Relations:

• Act as the escalation point for complex employee relations issues within France and support the Technology function. 
• Spot opportunities to increase engagement and reduce employee relations issues wherever possible. 
• Role model great employee relations practices to the People Partnering Community. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Support our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy by designing tailored initiatives for the Technology function.
• Lead local succession planning conversations and coach leaders in ways to optimise for diversity in their talent pipelines. 
• Connect with our DE&I Communities on cross-functional initiatives

About You 

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Significant experience as a People Partner in France and ideally from a Technology function or a Technology focused business. 
• Strong personal impact, you connect with confidence and credibility across small or larger audiences. 
• Forward-thinking relationship builder, coach and advisor, willing to challenge the status quo. 
• Proven experience of being able to navigate organisational complexity.
• Ability to prevent or resolve complex employee relations issues with pragmatism. 
• Good commercial acumen and analytical skills to help you design and deliver people plans
• Preferably relevant HR degree, or equivalent work experience. 
• Fluency in French and English is a must

 What will set you apart 

• Experience of working in a global business
• Some experience of M&A activity, and/or launching a new business

Why might this role not suit me?

We are a small, but highly focused team which means we’re looking for someone who enjoys connection and collaboration, but can operate confidently to represent the People team in France and as part of the Technology People function. 

We are going through a period of significant evolution which is exciting and with it brings lots of opportunity and challenging work, which is not for everyone. To be successful in this role, you will be excellent at operating in ambiguous, changing environments and get enjoyment from making the complex, simple.

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

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