People Operations Specialist, QuantSpark
£55-65k
+ EMI Share Options
2-3 days a week in office
Data analytics services consultancy
Posted today
Data analytics services consultancy
21-100 employees
Posted today
£55-65k
+ EMI Share Options
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
QuantSpark's mission is to help governments and businesses solve critical strategic problems using data-driven processes, including understanding and analysing data from disparate systems, and building decision-support tools on the basis of those insights.
Role
Who you are
- People Operations Expertise
- 4+ years of progressive experience in people operations, HR business partnering, or similar roles, ideally in tech, consulting, or professional services environments
- Hands-on experience with HRIS systems, people analytics, and process automation
- Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable people processes
- Experience managing employee lifecycle from onboarding through to alumni relations
- Strategic Partnership
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to partner effectively with teams
- Experience supporting high-growth organisations through scaling challenges
- Strong project management capabilities with ability to manage multiple people initiatives simultaneously
- Proven ability to translate business needs into effective people solutions
- Culture & Development Focus
- Understanding of modern workplace trends including hybrid working, employee engagement, and AI
- Experience with performance management systems and employee feedback mechanisms
- Strong facilitation skills for workshops, training sessions, and culture-building activities
- Proven ability to create and embed culture playbooks, ways of working frameworks, and organisational rituals that scale
- Technical Understanding
- Familiarity with tech industry practices and the unique needs of technical talent
- Understanding of consulting environments and client-facing professional development
- Experience with security clearance processes and government sector requirements is advantageous
- Comfort with data analysis and using metrics to drive people decisions
What the job involves
- As we scale our team to meet growing demand across private equity, retail, asset management, and public sector clients, we're seeking a People Operations Specialist who shares our mission and can build the people infrastructure that enables our exceptional talent to thrive
- Shape Our People Experience: Design and implement people processes that support our mission-driven culture while scaling from strength to strength
- Work That Matters: Create an environment where brilliant minds can do their best work solving meaningful problems for society
- Scale-Up Impact: Your people operations will define how we attract, develop, and retain world-class talent in a fast-growing organisation
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with engineering, consulting, and leadership teams to understand evolving people needs across diverse disciplines
- Innovation in HR: Implement cutting-edge people practices that reflect our commitment to using technology for positive change
- Scaling Culture: Enhance our collaborative, innovation-focused culture
- People Process Excellence: Transform our HR practices into streamlined, automated systems that reduce administrative burden and enhance employee experience at every touchpoint
- Creating an Exceptional Workplace: Design and implement workplace initiatives that make QuantSpark a destination employer where brilliant minds actively choose to build their careers
- Hybrid Working Optimisation: Perfect our hybrid working model by creating seamless processes, policies, and cultural practices that support both office and remote collaboration
- Employee Engagement & Retention: Develop data-driven strategies to maintain high engagement and reduce turnover in a highly competitive market for technical and consulting talent
- Compliance & Risk Management: Navigate complex security clearance processes, employment law requirements, and regulatory compliance while maintaining operational efficiency
- People Analytics Implementation: Establish meaningful metrics and analytics frameworks that provide actionable insights for leadership decision-making and continuous improvement
- Build Scalable People Systems: Design and implement HR processes, policies, and systems that support rapid growth while maintaining our collaborative culture
- Own Employee Lifecycle Management: Oversee onboarding, performance management, career development, and off-boarding processes to ensure exceptional employee experiences
- Drive Learning & Development: Partner with teams to identify skill gaps and coordinate our £6,000 annual training budget, managing conference attendance and professional development initiatives
- Champion Culture & Engagement: Lead initiatives that strengthen our purpose-driven culture, including team socials, recognition programmes, and employee feedback mechanisms
- Ensure Compliance Excellence: Maintain robust HR compliance across employment law, security clearance requirements, and regulatory obligations
- Lead People Analytics: Use data to inform people decisions, tracking key metrics like retention, engagement, and performance to drive continuous improvement
- Drive Innovation and Change: Manage change and drive innovation in People Operations to ensure continuous improvement and drive organisational change
- What Success Looks Like
- Seamless Employee Experience: Deliver exceptional onboarding, development, and lifecycle experiences that exceed employee expectations
- Cultural Excellence: Maintain high employee engagement and cultural alignment scores while scaling the organisation
- Process Efficiency: Implement streamlined people processes that reduce administrative burden and improve manager effectiveness
Salary benchmarks
Our take
QuantSpark helps governments and businesses to strategically apply data science through the development of complex decision-making software. Primarily, their work involves analysing large datasets and systems in order to understand customer behaviour and help clients make informed decisions for strategic planning in sales and marketing.
In recent years, big data has become central to the operation of businesses large and small, and this has led to great demand for data scientists fluent in sophisticated modelling and analysis. QuantSpark seeks to go a step further, providing a service which combines data science with commercial insight- effectively providing both services through one transaction. By doing this, QuantSpark hopes to offer clients a more meaningful insight into their data than a standard consultancy could.
They already have an impressive client list, including the UK Government, the Australian Government and Bain Capital. QuantSpark's tools and solutions are developed to become embedded in their clients' operations, ensuring a long-lasting relationship between them, and meaning that, as QuantSpark continues to expand its client base, its model should allow it to see continued success in the future.
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Company benefits
- £6000 yearly training budget
- Opportunity to work from abroad for 20 days per year
- Flexible working between our core hours of 10am - 5pm
- EMI Share Options Scheme
- Generous pension contributions
- Top tier Private Healthcare with Vitality
- Optional monthly socials, dinners, and fun nights out
- Opportunity to work on social impact & pro bono strategy projects
- A fully stocked supply of breakfast, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office
- 33 days total holiday
Company values
- Diversity
- Analytical Rigour
- Teamwork
- Entrepreneurialism
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Adam Hadley
(CEO & Co-Founder)With Master's degrees from Oxford and KCL, Adam divides their time between running QuantSpark and Tech Against Terrorism- the world's preeminent NGO helping to tackle terrorists' use of the internet.
People progressing
Anastasia is our Head of People and Operations. Anastasia joined the business as EA to Adam, our CEO, and quickly built out a department of her own which continues to expand.
After 1.5 years, Sophie was promoted to a Lead role and then established a Product department, expanded to 5 PMs, 2 new specialist skillsets, and fostered promotions within her team.
Daniel joined us as a Data Analyst in 2019 and now leads the Analytics Engineering Team and is an integral part of the business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at QuantSpark
- QuantSpark is an equal opportunities employer committed to fair and equitable treatment for all potential employees, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, or disability.
- We utilise diversity and inclusion data to pinpoint areas of improvement to our hiring process.
- We are transparent with our salary bandings to encourage everyone to feel empowered in their negotiations, and to ensure parity with our existing teams.
- We have a flexible approach to our interview process, utilising video interviews and take-home assessments. We aim to increase the variety of our assessment styles, to offer fair opportunity to all types of candidates.
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