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E.L.F. BEAUTY

Interim Associate Director, People

E.L.F. BEAUTY

Associate Director, People shaping HR strategy and supporting growth in high-performance beauty company. Collaborating with senior leadership across people-related matters in a hybrid working environment.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Play a critical leadership role in shaping and driving the people agenda.
  • Deliver a scalable people strategy aligned to business growth objectives.
  • Partner closely with senior leadership to support organisational design, workforce planning, and change management initiatives.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to managers and leadership teams on all people-related matters.
  • Lead and support the business through periods of rapid growth, transformation, and continuous change.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture across the organisation.
  • Champion employee engagement, wellbeing, and a positive working environment.
  • Drive initiatives that enhance employee experience, communication, and team connectivity.
  • Promote company values and behaviours that support innovation, accountability, and teamwork.
  • Lead recruitment strategy to attract and retain high-performing talent.
  • Oversee onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and talent development initiatives.
  • Build leadership capability through coaching and development programmes.
  • Manage all employee relations matters with professionalism and fairness.
  • Ensure HR policies, procedures, and practices remain compliant with UK employment legislation.
  • Develop and improve HR processes, systems, and infrastructure to support business scalability.
  • Lead HR support through periods of organisational change and business transformation.
  • Support compensation and benefits reviews to ensure market competitiveness.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Proven experience in a senior HR leadership role within a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Strong HR generalist background across the full employee lifecycle.
  • Demonstrable experience managing within high-change and evolving business environments.
  • Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice.
  • Commercial mindset with the ability to align people strategy to business objectives.
  • Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery.
  • Experience building and improving HR frameworks, processes, and culture.
  • Experience within beauty, fashion, retail, e-commerce, or consumer sectors preferred.
  • CIPD qualification preferred.
  • Experience supporting multi-site or international teams advantageous.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • annual company-based performance bonus up to 200%
  • equity
  • medical insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • retirement savings plan
  • gender neutral parental leave
  • unlimited paid time off
  • flexible time off
  • year-round half-day Fridays

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Hard Skills & Tools
HR generalistemployee lifecycle managementrecruitment strategyonboardingperformance managementsuccession planningtalent developmentHR frameworksHR processescompliance with UK employment law
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencingstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingoperational deliverycollaborationemployee engagementcoachingchange management
Certifications
CIPD qualification