HR Director, MOTORS
+ Annual Bonus
3+ days a week in office (Waterloo, London)
Online used car marketplace
Job no longer available
Online used car marketplace
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Annual Bonus
3+ days a week in office (Waterloo, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To better connect buyers and sellers of vehicles and reduce consumer frustrations with the search process through smart, intuitive products.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a strategic HR Leader who also enjoys day to day hands on execution, we’d love to hear from you!
- You’ll have proven experience as a HR Director in a high growth tech or marketplace scale-up/start-up
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law, HR best practice, and compliance combined with CIPD qualification at level 5 or above
- Experience across all areas of HR from talent acquisition to organisational development and culture building
- You’ll be experienced in scaling HR functions in fast paced, ever changing, rapidly growing companies. Consequently, you competently navigate the big and the small rolling your sleeves up daily to get things done
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, working with founders, exec teams, and investors
- Experience in due diligence investment process
What the job involves
- We have an amazing opportunity for a skilled HR Director to join us at an exciting point of reset
- You’ll lead the People and Talent Strategy for a fast growth tech scale-up with circa 100FTE, acting as a strategic partner to the leadership team
- Our workforce planning strategy is a mix of Buy, Borrow and Build – your role will be to develop and execute plans to ensure scalability
- Our goal is to quadruple our revenue in the coming years, you’ll play a key role in ensuring Organisational Design, Culture, Talent Management and HR Operations support this
- With committed long-term investors, a new leadership team on board and a marketplace buzzing with opportunity it’s a fantastic time to join us!
- You’ll join us as a Gumtree’s first permanent HR hire, following a period of interim leadership to see us through the company buy-out
- You’ll own the full remit of HR and Talent, developing a strategy that is aligned to business goals and supports our company vision
- Your broad scope of responsibilities includes all the moments that matter within the Employee Lifecycle from Talent Acquisition and Onboarding to Talent Management, Organisational Development & Culture, HR Operations & Compliance, Compensation, Benefits & Reward, Employee Relations as well as HR Analytics
- To help you deliver, you’ll get to define the HR roadmap, including hiring a small but mighty team around you
- This is a fantastic opportunity to deliver organisational change and impact in a business with a huge amount of unlocked potential
Application process
- We usually respond within two weeks
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Used car marketplace MOTORS has had quite the journey, having been founded by a partnership between the Daily Mail and General Trust before its acquisition by Cox Automotive and, subsequently, Gumtree. Now, it’s an independent used car marketplace that hosts hundreds of thousands of used cars, as well as reviews, guides and advice.
With fifteen years of experience behind it, MOTORS has capitalised on its ownership journey to become the go-to used car marketplace for the UK. Operating within a challenging economy, MOTORS is in a strong position, even buying “household name” and competitor Cazoo, which went into administration in 2024. This suggests that MOTORS will continue to maintain its nation-leading position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Discretionary Bonus
- Pension Scheme (up to 9% Employer Contribution)
- Employee recognition scheme with great financial prizes ££
- 25 days holiday per year growing with length of service
- Hybrid and UK Remote working depending on role
- Generous Family Friendly Leave
- Free counseling and support (for when you might need it)
- Private Healthcare Insurance
- Private Dental insurance cover & Cashback
- Online private GP service
- Generous sick pay support
- Life assurance policy (x4 Life Assurance)
- Social & Inclusion Calendar - packed with events
- Free food and beverage in our office locations
Company HQ
Richmond, UK
Articles
Leadership
Barry Judge
(CEO)Former CEO & current Board Member at houza. They are also the former CEO of OLX, dubizzle, and dealglobber.com (which they Co-Founded).
People progressing
Head of Account Management.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at MOTORS
Mathew Dutton (People Director (Gumtree & Motors))
- Here at Gumtree & Motors, we’re striving to foster a culture of belonging and empowerment, a place where everyone can be celebrated for who they are, with equal opportunities for growth and career development.
- We understand that having diverse and inclusive teams fuels creativity and stronger performance. That’s why we’re committed to discovering new talent so that when you join us, you can be you! We know we’re not perfect, and true inclusion and belonging is a journey. As part of our commitment to create inclusion for all in 2023, listed below are a few of the things we’re up to. And that’s really just the start!
- Improve equitable hiring processes by removing bias from job applications
- Delivering training on Unconscious Bias, Culture And Identity Awareness, & Inclusive Leadership
- Celebrating diversity through our company-wide inclusion calendar
- Fostering Community Groups (ERGs) with investment for each group
- Continuing our People Ambassador Programme to have more representative voices involved in decision making
- Accelerating diverse talent through a mentoring programme
- Sponsorship to attend an external coaching programme to elevate women’s voices
- Partnering with charitable organisations to drive inclusion and belonging within wider communities
- Reviewing the accessibility of our workplace, practices and policies
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