People Partner - Consumer Tribe

People Partner - SumUp Pay

Team description

SumUp is building a full-featured personal account for consumers across Europe- making it easy to spend globally, manage money, and get rewarded for everyday spending.

As our dedicated People Partner for SumUp Pay, you'll work closely with the Tribe Lead and senior leaders to build and execute a people agenda that's genuinely fit for an incubation-stage team, not a copy-paste of company-wide processes. This is a rare opportunity to shape how a fast-moving, high-priority team hires, develops, and grows its people from the ground up, with real ownership and direct influence from day one.

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What you'll do

Design and implement a people strategy for the Consumer tribe that covers engagement, career development, manager capability, and workforce planning — tailored to where the team is today and where it's heading

Adapt existing SumUp people programmes (including leadership development, and career frameworks) to fit the teams current size, pace, and stage

Partner closely with Talent Acquisition to keep SumUp Pay’s hiring plan on track setting cadence, unblocking issues, tracking metrics, and reporting progress back to leaders

Act as the trusted go-to person for people decisions across the tribe, supporting leaders with performance, development, and team health

Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve and scale key people processes. We expect this person to experiment, iterate, and bring new ways of working to the team

You'll be great for this role if…

Experience working as a People Partner or HRBP in a fast-growing organisation, with a track record of balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution

Strong knowledge of talent and performance management processes, career development frameworks, and employment law, particularly across the UK

Ability to build trust and credibility quickly with senior stakeholders, and to influence decisions without direct authority

Comfort adapting company-w