People Operations Lead

Job Title: People Operations Lead

Salary: £50,000 - £50,000 + Benefits

Location: Leeds - Hybrid

As People Operations Lead, you'll lead the delivery of a first-class People function, that directly enables Fruition and Enablis to achieve their strategic priorities. This is an exciting time to join the business as you will have the opportunity to shape our People function and work in collaboration with senior leaders to deliver an engaging, high performance workplace where people thrive.

You will be the main point of contact to our teams across the entire employee life cycle, partnering with leaders to provide pragmatic, commercially focused support in a fast paced, PE-backed environment. This is a busy and varied role and you will be comfortable with regular context switching, enjoying getting stuck into day to day operational responsibilities and simultaneously leading on the delivery of strategic projects.

Key Responsibilities

People experience

• You will take the day to day lead on developing and delivering end to end, seamless People experiences that reflect the culture of our organisations. This is a broad role covering all aspects of the employee journey, including, but not limited to:
• Embedding an engaging, structured and individualised onboarding journey for all new hires focused on supporting them to feel supported, engaged and productive from their first week.
• Optimise the People tech stack to build efficiency in operations, removing friction and automating actions where possible.
• Working in partnership with our Marketing team, deliver effective internal communications and engagement activity.
• Use People data to inform decisions and to continuously improve processes and systems.

People roadmap

• You will play a key role in our Enablis People working group responsible for delivering our strategic roadmap.

With support from senior leadership colleagues, you will ensure tangible outcomes are realised each quarter, focused on initiatives such as:

• Maximising the impact and effectiveness of our learning and development approach.
• Establishing a performance enablement framework including the appropriate touchpoints throughout the year to ensure regular and effective feedback.
• Building and routinising a listening strategy across the business, providing different channels for feedback and ensuring follow up activities are planned.

Compliance and risk

• You will ensure that the People function runs with good governance, is legally compliant and aligned with our company values.

Specifically, this will include:

• Leading on policy development and regular review.
• Confident handling of any employee relations issues that arise, working in partnership with managers to support proactive management.
• Maintain accurate records and ensure appropriate confidentiality controls are in place.
• Take the lead on the People aspects of external accreditation eg ISO.
• Support risk identification and mitigation.

About You

• Experienced People professional with a strong record of success, including process improvement and developing People functions to support organisational growth.
• Results focused, able to prioritise initiatives that deliver maximum impact.
• Strong understanding of, and experience working with, UK employment law and People Operations across the full employee life cycle.
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience leading People Operations delivery, including complex ER cases, building manager capability, process development and change projects.
• Experience of working successfully in partnership with senior leaders and ability to influence with confidence and credibility.
• Proactive, organised and commercially minded.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Confident using HR systems and digital tools.
• Passion for building environments where people perform and grow long term.

We're a technology consultancy where people talk like humans.

We help organisations make technology work - faster, smarter, and with less stress.

Enablis began with a simple belief; consultancy doesn't need to be complicated. In fact, it shouldn't be. From the start, we've set out to cut through the noise. No jargon. No over-engineered processes. Just clear, focused work that drives meaningful results.

We're here to embed excellence. That means building long-term capability, not just delivering short-term fixes. Whether we're augmenting a team with niche expertise, guiding strategy on a complex transformation, or leading delivery from the front - our role is to empower, not to take over.

We provide innovative talent solutions for high-growth markets, connecting exceptional people with ambitious companies to drive success.

Pride: We deliver high-quality work and take ownership of our impact - both internally and for our clients.

Energy: We maintain a positive, high-performance culture where passion and momentum drive success.

Perseverance: We embrace challenges with determination and resilience to achieve exceptional outcomes.

We're an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.