# Head of People

**Company:** [Utopia](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/fFJPmKEutKxpNBtuVxQEiX.md)
**Location:** Budapest, Hungary
**Workplace:** on site
**Department:** Core

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## Description

We are looking for a Head of People to lead and transform our international HR and Recruitment function. You will improve talent quality, performance, and retention; strengthen organisational culture; and implement scalable people processes across a diverse international business.

You will systematically assess HR processes and recruitment funnels, identify gaps and root causes, and deliver data-driven improvements. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build processes from the ground up, lead change in a low-process-maturity environment, and deliver measurable results with a lean team.

## Requirements

-   Senior HR leadership experience with strong recruitment and organisational development expertise.
-   Proven results improving quality of hire, retention, probation outcomes, and performance.
-   Hands-on experience auditing end-to-end HR processes, recruitment funnels, and process deviations.
-   Strong capability in HR / Recruitment analytics, KPIs, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
-   Experience in performance management, engagement, culture, organisational design, and workforce planning.
-   Ability to build practical processes and lead their adoption across different business functions.
-   Experience with distributed international teams and awareness of contractor / employment arrangements.
-   Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, ownership, and fluent English.

-   **Plus to have:**
-   Russian fluency
-   In-house recruitment or HR experience within the construction, real estate, architecture, design, or hospitality industries. Experience hiring for or working directly within these sectors is preferred.

### **Responsibilities:**

-   Develop and execute People strategy aligned with business needs.
-   Lead a lean HR and Recruitment team and improve its effectiveness.
-   Strengthen sourcing, candidate assessments, hiring standards, and quality of hire.
-   Analyse recruitment funnels and the entire HR lifecycle; track deviations, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
-   Build onboarding, performance management, feedback, retention, and development processes.
-   Build a sustainable culture of engagement, accountability, and high performance.
-   Establish and continuously improve People dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.
-   Adapt people practices to corporate functions, site teams, and potentially hospitality operations.
-   Partner with leadership on organisational effectiveness, headcount planning, and employee performance.
-   Oversee international People operations and partner with Legal and Finance on compliance.
-   Personally drive implementation and adoption of improvements.

## Benefits

-   Opportunity to build and shape the People function of an international luxury hospitality business.
-   Direct involvement in strategic organisational decisions and meaningful transformation.
-   High autonomy, ownership, and visibility with senior leadership.
-   International exposure, remote work, and occasional travel.
-   Entrepreneurial environment with a lean, collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

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