PEOPLE PARTNER (Recruitment Focus)
HR DEPARTMENT
💷 £45k - £50k
🚆HYBRID - London Based (Victoria Station) & Remote 1 or 2 days per week.
WHO ARE WE?
#14 - Fastest Growing UK Tech Company (Sunday Times)
#31 - Fastest Growing UK Company (Sunday Times)
#77 - Fastest Growing Europe Company (Sifted)
Sessions is building the operating model for the future of restaurants, giving consumers instant access to the brands they love, wherever they live.
The Sessions distribution engine runs through 400+ delivery kitchens and 16 high street restaurants across the UK.
Founded in 2020 and led by ex-Deliveroo MD Dan Warne, Sessions has grown 7x in three years. Our platform has processed over 5 million orders and reaches 60% of the UK population. Our team brings experience from Deliveroo, Amazon, BrewDog, and Gousto.
We scale brands at a pace that redefines what's possible in food. Examples include Miko's Gyros, which went from launch to 100+ live sites in under two months and SoBe Burger, which is live in over 200 delivery locations and has opened 15 physical high street stores.
🏃♀️ We are Agile - Thrive in fast-pace. We sprint, adapt, and learn.
🌍 We are Ambitious - Contribute to something big. Watch your career grow bigger.
🤪 We are Fun - High performance, high fives. Join a team you'll love.
🤖We are Data-Driven - Turn insights into action. We lead with evidence.
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We have Initiative - Anticipate problems. Drive the solution.
About The Role
With
Sessions currently gearing up for Series B funding and preparing to launch into international markets, we are entering a high-velocity era of expansion. We aren’t looking for someone to join once the engine is already at full throttle; we want to bring you on board now so you can deeply embed yourself in our culture and processes before the storm.
Initially, your primary focus (roughly 70-80%) will be
Talent Acquisition. We need to find the best people, and we need your expertise to do it. The remaining 20-30% will be spent supporting the
Head of People on foundational HR projects and tasks.
As we grow and our hiring pace stabilises, your role will evolve. We are looking for someone who wants to eventually transition into a well-rounded
People Partner, managing employee relations, performance cycles, and culture initiatives amongst other topics.
Responsibilities
- Talent Acquisition
- End-to-End Ownership: Manage the full lifecycle of recruitment across various departments (Tech, Sales, Ops, etc.).
- Sourcing Strategy: Proactively hunt for passive talent and build a diverse pipeline - no "post and pray" mentalities here.
- Candidate Experience: Ensure every applicant has a world-class experience, regardless of the outcome.
- Employer Branding: Help us tell our story through LinkedIn, careers pages, and networking events.
- People Operations
- Onboarding: Partner with the Head of People to refine a seamless transition from "Candidate" to "Team Member."
- Learning & Development: Help identify skill gaps and coordinate and where appropriate, host training initiatives and courses to ensure our team grows as fast as the company does.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Assist on various D&I initiatives including work on hiring processes and supporting our employees with disabilities and adjustments.
- Performance Management: Support the processes surrounding performance cycles, and goal-setting frameworks (OKRs).
- Employee Relations: With guidance from the Head of People - manage the more junior but varied HR processes including disciplinaries, grievances, and conflict resolution with empathy and compliance.
- IT & Systems: In absence of an IT department, assist with answering queries or setting up tech for our teams.
- Health & Safety: Ensure we are providing a safe, compliant, and healthy work environment (physical or remote) as our headcount expands.
Requirements
- The Recruiter-Generalist: You have 2 years of experience in high-volume or startup recruitment. You’re comfortable on the phone and happy to reach out to people proactively on Linkedin.
- Series B Mindset: You are comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the challenge of building processes from scratch before the company doubles in size.
- Process-Driven: You enjoy the "unsexy" but vital parts of HR - systems, compliance, and documentation - knowing they are the backbone of a successful scale-up. Organisation is EVERYTHING.
- Resilient & Empathetic: You can navigate difficult conversations (grievances/disciplinaries) with a level head and a human-first approach.
- Charismatic and energetic with a passion for food
- Expert level of English language
- Right to work in the UK
Benefits & Perks
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Financial
Share Options - Receive an amount of share options for Sessions Market Ltd.
Pay day on demand - Access to pay whenever needed
Expense card - Company Card
Finance Platform - Access to 'Mintago', Financial Wellbeing Platform
🌴Social, Mental & Physical Wellbeing
Hybrid Working - up to 2 days working remotely per week
Holidays - 25 days + bank holidays + Birthday Off
Healthcare - Healthcare Cash Plan scheme
Employee Assistance Programme - Support for mental health and legal services
Socials - Monthly socials
Dog Friendly - We love our fluffy pals, they're welcome in the office!
Wear what you like - No suits and ties please, that's so 18th century....
💻Technology Perks
Laptop - Apple Mac
Phone - Apple iPhone and company sim provided
📈 Progression & Development
High Growth Start Up- This is a great chance to be part of a growing company with plenty of progression opportunities, responsibility from day 1
Be Inspired - Learn from a team that's scaled some of the UK's biggest consumer companies
Membership & Qualifications - Sessions have helped support a number of our employees by providing funds for work-based qualifications and memberships
Sessions are a living wage and equal opportunity employer.
all applicants are reviewed 'anonymously' where only work experience and education will be available for the hiring manager to view - all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
Sessions exists to help founder-led food brands grow. Led by ex-Deliveroo MD Dan Warne and built by a team with experience scaling brands at Deliveroo, Amazon, BrewDog and Gousto. Sessions delivers the technology, data and expertise to turn loved food brands into national franchises.
