Location: London, UK (Hybrid)
Salary: £90,000 + Benefits
Industry: Fast-Casual Dining Group | multi-site | High-Growth
Fast-growing, well-backed restaurant group with a clear mission: to deliver quality, craveable food at speed, while building a workplace where people thrive. With multiple successful brands under their belt and a strong leadership team in place, the guys are entering the next stage of growth, and we need a Head of People & Culture who can help us scale with purpose.
This isn’t a start-up. It’s a structured, strategically led business with momentum, and the ambition to double in size over the next 24 months. We’re now looking for a people leader who understands how to balance culture, compliance, and commercial thinking in a multi-site, fast-paced hospitality environment.
Key Responsibilities of the Head of People
- Develop and deliver a clear, people-first strategy aligned with our growth goals and operational realities
- Lead all core HR functions across the employee lifecycle — recruitment, onboarding, learning & development, engagement, ER, and retention
- Partner closely with operations leadership to ensure that people policies support service excellence and performance
- Design and roll out scalable, consistent frameworks for performance management, training, and internal comms
- Drive a proactive and pragmatic approach to employee relations, wellbeing, and inclusion
- Act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team, helping shape culture through periods of growth and change
- Champion a values-led approach to leadership while ensuring compliance with employment law and best practice
The Head of People
- A senior People/HR professional with experience in hospitality, food & beverage, or retail
- Commercially astute, with a strong understanding of how people strategy impacts business performance
- Demonstrated success building or leading HR functions in growing or transitioning businesses
- A confident communicator who can engage credibly with teams at every level — from restaurant crew to boardroom
- Resilient and solution-oriented, with the ability to balance structure with flexibility
- Passionate about developing people, building culture, and making the workplace somewhere people want to stay and grow
