Employee Experience & Development Associate

Description

Our Company

We’re on a mission to re-invent the fundamentals of e-commerce. As a reseller, with more than 10 years of experience in the beauty industry, we’re expanding into new categories and market places, aiming to make it possible to buy and sell anything, anywhere.  

If you’re ready for the ride of your life, we’re in hypergrowth, growing more than 200%, 3 years in a row.

We’re a fully remote team (except for our warehouse in Barcelona), with 65+ team members from more than 20 countries. Our core values are Efficiency, Initiative, Teamwork, Lifelong Learning and Best Life Architect. 

In fact, part of our purpose is to enable our people to live their best lives: our dream is to foster an environment where you can thrive in all aspects of your life. We encourage you to pursue your passions, nurture your relationships, and prioritize your well-being.

Get to know our team and culture here: https://www.ultimatebeautycompany.com/

Your Team: People & Culture

We believe the modern way of work is broken. The People & Culture Department’s mission is to redefine work and create an environment where our people can thrive both within and outside of work. We experiment with cutting-edge philosophies like remote work, unique ability, and coaching to enable our people to live their best lives.

Our Guiding Principles Are: 

• People First

• Progress Over Perfection

• Accountability & Ownership

• Learning & Experimentation 

• Simplification & Automation

Your Role: Employee Experience & Development Associate 

Overview:

The Employee Experience & Development Associate is accountable for driving a culture of growth, engagement and learning. You are meticulous in your planning, coordinating and implementing, ensuring that our learning and development, engagement and culture initiatives run smoothly. You play a key role in facilitating, supporting and promoting company-wide engagements such as retreats and town halls as well as smaller, personal engagements like coffee chats and recognition programs. 

Your Role’s Impact 

Employee Experience & Development is central in driving engagement and continuous learning throughout the organisation, ensuring our people have the right capabilities (soft skills and hard skills) to be successful at work and in life.

Engaged people with the right skillset is critical to ongoing success for a fast growing company like ours.

Responsibilities

• Drive a culture of learning and engagement through various initiatives, like recognition programs, annual retreats, L&D and growth plans

• Coordinate and implement learning and development programmes, ensuring wide adoption

• Plan, facilitate and support company-wide team initiatives like our annual retreat and monthly retreats 

• Monitor and report on L&D participation rates and experiences

• Assist with onboarding and off-boarding 

• Be a go-to person for our team’s queries 

Requirements

Your Skills & Attributes 

Required for your role: 

• Passionate and about enabling others to grow 

• Experience with learning and development in a People Team, ideally in a fast-growing start up or scale up environment

• Experience with utilising technology to streamline, report and improve processes and experiences, ideally using people tech such as LMS and HRIS

• Experience working with a diverse, remote team 

• Comfortable and effective in addressing and facilitating large groups 

• Meticulous and cares about getting it right 

• Effective communicator who connects easily with people 

• Organized and effective time-management skills

• Proactive and solution-driven problem-solver

Nice to haves (Not Mandatory)

• Experience in events or community management will be an advantage

Required for the whole company: 

We are led by our five values: 

• Efficiency: We achieve results by being efficient with our time and resources. We’re resourceful. We are output-driven and data-based decision makers who constantly strive to optimize processes and tools. 

• Initiative: We assess, initiate and execute things independently in order to achieve the common goal and improve our work. We are self-sufficient, impact-driven and proactive, taking ownership of our work and motivated to make a positive impact on our team, customers and the company. 

• Teamwork: We're better together, collaborating with empathy, respect and positivity. We communicate in a friendly, positive and clear way, collaborate and we’re open-minded. We consider new ideas with an unbiased attitude and are able to reevaluate our perspective and behaviors. 

• Lifelong Learner: We take responsibility for our personal and professional development. We have curious mindsets, actively seek to grow in our professional and personal lives and, we engage in reflective practices, taking time to reflect on our experiences and learnings. 

• Best-life Architect: We take proactive steps toward improving our lives and habits. We are self-aware and communicate our preferences, unique abilities and core needs while taking action towards living our best lives. We are aware of others’ values and needs and support each other.