About Manj
Senior Talent & People professional experienced in building and rebuilding teams in tech-led, high change environments. Proven track record of delivering through direct sourcing, inclusive hiring practices and strong stakeholder partnership across Product, Engineering, GTM, and Commercial and Corporate/Central functions.
Experienced operating as a trusted Senior IC, in a team or as a sole People person both refining or setting up TA and HR functions. Accomplished in people management, resource management, culture build, and building employer brand.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
London (up to 50km), Reading (up to 10km), Slough (up to 10km), Oxford (up to 10km)
Experience
- Rated PeopleHR & Talent Acquisition ManagerHUMAN RESOURCESFebruary 2022 - December 2025 (3 years and 10 months)London, United KingdomHR● ER work, inc:○ Individual and team redundancies○ Capability, underperformance and misconduct interventions○ Complaints and grievance conversations, mediations and investigations● Construction of and, continued rewriting and review of company policies○ including proactive Employment Rights Bill changes● Built performance/EoY process using 1-4 scoring system, and calibration process○ Running 9 box grid execution with managers and SLT● Succession planning, identification and development of next generation leaders● Constructed Company development frameworks● Working in 6 weekly focus groups, led the development of Ways of Working with high potential, high performance ICs, middle management, and Senior Leadership Team.● Learning & development: Learnerbly, shared books and free videos, and organised and hosted quarterly lunch n' learn sessions● Employment Engagement surveys. Consulted with business on findings and owned execution of changes across departments and made changes to departments working implemented per the feedback● All paperwork, and reporting.● Tracking, updating, and administration of HRIS (Bamboo), healthcare (BUPA & Vitality), life assurance (AIG), pensions (Royal London), EOR (Oyster).Talent Acquisition● Direct sourced and recruited roles across Sales/Salesforce/Java/Data/Product/RevOps/Customer Support/Finance/People hires○ Tools like LinkedIN Recruiter, Hackajob, Ota/WTTJ, Indeed. Joppy/OfferZen when recruiting internationally for remote engineers.● Designed, developed and embedded scorecarding, and process for a number of company hiring projects reducing bias● Delivered interview coaching for managers and leaders, increasing hiring manager capabilityMore● Company payroll using Xero● Social Committee lead and Office Manager from May 2024 onwards● Executed 3 office moves in 2024-2025● Brokered cheaper alternatives to business insurance, health insurance and life assurance.
- ZooplaRecruitment Business Partner PermanentHUMAN RESOURCESNovember 2014 - June 2021 (6 years and 7 months)Tower Bridge, London, England, United Kingdom
- Recruiter for varying positions across all functions/disciplines from Finance to Marketing to Technology to Sales.
- Phased out the RPO, and shrunk the number of agencies across the Zoopla brand
- Strong focus on direct recruitment (raising direct sourcing from 33% in FY14, to 53% in FY15, and then 65% in FY16)
- Previous Line Management of talented individuals to bolster our direct source strategy
- Arts Alliance Media Hammersmith & Kensington,Recruitment AdvisorHUMAN RESOURCESAugust 2013 - October 2014 (1 year and 2 months)London, United KingdomAccepted a position within the expanding HR team as the sole recruiter for the leader in digital cinema.
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Education
- BAHeston Community SchoolBA