People Strategy & Leadership:

• Together with the Leadership Team, create and execute the company-wide people strategy that underpins our strategic pillars and objectives.

• Act as a trusted Leadership Team member, coach, and thought partner, constructively challenging where needed and helping define clear people priorities and impactful initiatives.

• Develop a set of organisational KPIs to measure the impact of the people plan, with regular updates using our BI tooling and insights to support informed business decision-making.

People Expertise Ownership:

• Lead a team of people experts covering Talent Acquisition, People Operations, People Business Partnering and Workplace.

• Ensure strong execution, prioritisation and delivery across all people activities through half yearly people strategic goals and operational delivery plans.

• Continue to evolve Qualifyze people experience through ongoing improvements to existing processes, frameworks and tools, with the aim to automate and leverage AI to the fullest.

Company Operating Model:

• Support the transition to the target operating model by department, improving clarity on ownership, decision‑making and accountability.

• Partner with functional leaders to implement change incrementally over time pragmatically, without large‑scale restructuring.

• Collaborate closely with VP Finance to build workforce planning for the organisation, ensuring a focus on effective people and organisational investments that support sustainable growth.

• Use existing people frameworks including onboarding, careers ladders, values, performance, reward to maximise organisational impact.
  

People Leadership Capability:

• Create and execute a plan for enabling and supporting people leaders across the company.

• Embed our people leader tools and confidence across performance management, feedback, reward conversations and day‑to‑day leadership.

• Lead people leader onboarding and ongoing skill development, tracking results through team health, performance, employee relations and attrition metrics.

People Operations & Delivery:

• Ensure people processes are simple, scalable and executed to a consistently high standard across our people experience journey.

• Maintain a hands‑on approach, balancing strategic design with direct involvement where needed on core topics including payroll, labor laws and compliance, expansion, sales incentives

• Drive accountability for outcomes, not just activity. Continue to evolve how employees access support, optimising models based on self-serve, automation and AI.

Reward & Pay Transparency:

• Embed Qualifyze’s reward philosophy through hiring, compensation reviews, promotions and mandatory audits / reporting across each market.

• Manage the evolution of our compensation ranges, progression frameworks and reward governance, ensuring alignment with our reward philosophy.

• Ensure readiness and compliance with EU Pay Transparency requirements, taking the lead on our existing programme of work.

Experience:

• 10+ years in people, organisation and HR roles, with at least 3+ years leading team(s).

• Experience working in successful and outcome driven high growth, high change environments across Europe and beyond, especially in Spain, Germany, USA and India.

• Experience owning end to end people strategy and operational execution.

• Deep experience from having measurable impact across the technology industry, ideally with a software, platform or life sciences environments.
  

What we offer:

• 💰 Competitive, annually reviewed compensation package.

• 🌴 Country vacation package that increases with your tenure.

• 🏋️ Country specific benefits offering incl. private health care, fitness and meal allowances.

• 🚀 Annual personal development budget to increase your impact.

• 🌍 Hybrid working mode, plus up to 3 months of the year work from anywhere. 

• 💻 All the best kit and tools to work effectively. 

• 🎉 Annual in person all company event and celebration in Europe.

• 👫 Working with an exceptional team, doing some of the best work of your career.

At Qualifyze, we value diversity and inclusion, recognizing the strength that complementary talents and perspectives bring to our team. Join us and help drive innovation, tackle challenges, and create meaningful change.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, disability, or age.

Our hiring practices are rooted in fairness and respect, and we strive to create a culture where everyone feels valued and empowered.