CDI - VP People (Paris)
Job Overview
We are on an ambitious growth trajectory, not only scaling our organic operations in France and Germany but also preparing for significant growth through strategic acquisitions. This is a critical time for our People function, which must evolve from reactive support to a proactive, strategic enabler of international growth. We are looking for a VP of People to be the architect of our future organization, ensuring we build a scalable, high-performing, and empowering employee experience globally.
As the VP People, you will be a strategic member of the Executive Team, reporting directly to the CEO. You will be responsible for driving scalable people practices, organizational clarity, and leadership capability across a growing international team (France & Germany) to enable Matera's strategic growth and foster an empowering employee experience.
You will lead, coach, and develop a dedicated, international People team: 6 People team members in France and 3 People team members in Germany.
Beyond leading the People function, you will serve as a key leadership coach and strategic advisor to your executive peers (VPs and Heads of), contributing directly to the collective strength and effectiveness of the entire leadership team.
Key Leadership Challenges:
International Scaling: Establishing a globally consistent, yet locally compliant, People strategy to support our current headcount of ~300 employees in France and ~80 employees in Germany, while building the foundation for our next stage of international expansion.
Acquisition Integration: Play a leadership role in multiple upcoming acquisitions. This includes ensuring the seamless integration of new employees, establishing local compliance (especially in new markets), and unifying HR practices to create a cohesive and consistent international employee experience.
What You Will Achieve (Key Outcomes in 12–18 Months)
Your success will be measured by your ability to deliver measurable, scalable impact across these four critical areas:
1. Organizational Effectiveness & Manager Capability
Data-Driven Reviews: Implement regular People Business Reviews across all functions, utilizing actionable data to proactively identify and address key organizational and team-level challenges.
Manager Empowerment: Equip 100% of our managers with effective routines for feedback, compensation conversations, and goal-setting, resulting in a measurable improvement in manager confidence and employee perception scores.
Effectiveness Metrics: Achieve a measurable increase in overall manager effectiveness scores (e.g., as measured through our employee surveys).
2. Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
Scalable Processes: Establish scalable, consistent, and high-quality talent acquisition processes that demonstrably reduce time-to-hire while maintaining a high bar for candidate quality across both France and Germany.
Cultural Integration: Implement a robust and scalable onboarding program that ensures role clarity and cultural integration for new hires in all countries, leading to improved new hire retention rates.
3. Core HR Programs & Data-Driven Insights
Global Consistency: Design, implement, and own core HR programs (e.g., global compensation frameworks, unified performance management cycles) that are consistent globally while allowing for necessary local nuance, showing clear adoption rates and positive feedback.
Strategic Reporting: Establish a comprehensive data-driven HR dashboard that provides actionable insights to the Executive Team, leading to at least 3 org-wide strategic priorities being influenced and driven by People data.
4. People Team Development & Strategic Impact
Team Capability: Build the People team's capability to operate as a true strategic partner- acting globally while partnering locally-resulting in measurable improvements in People team efficiency and internal stakeholder satisfaction.
Future Foundation: Lay the foundation for a comprehensive leadership development program and strategic workforce planning initiatives, with clear roadmaps and initial implementations in place.