🌍 UK, Hybrid

⭐️ Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

🙌 Drive your own experience 

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows

✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self 

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
•  Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

People Director at SO ENERGY

As People Director (Maternity Cover), you will lead So Energy’s people strategy during a critical period of business growth. You will champion the company’s cultural roadmap, ensuring a resilient, engaged, and talented workforce that is well-supported and motivated to achieve their best. You will enable a leadership population that is people-oriented, compliant, and committed to best practices and continuous development.

This role also involves steering change and engagement programmes, fostering cultural alignment, and delivering people-focused initiatives to support the company’s ambitious growth goals.

If you’re an accomplished leader with a passion for people and culture and thrive in dynamic environments, we’d love to hear from you!

Reporting into our CEO, Simon Oscroft 👋

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Lead well-managed people-focused change programmes, supporting employees in navigating change and adapting to new ways of working.
• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team spanning the whole employee lifecycle inclusive of talent, people partners, people operations, internal communications, L&D (including QA), facilities, and people experience ensuring a consistent and progressive approach to all people services and operations.
• Develop a strong commercial understanding of the business
  
• Lead the execution of the company’s 2025 People Strategy and oversee strategic planning for the 2026 People and Culture Roadmap ensuring that the people strategy integrates psychological safety, wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion as core principles.
  
• Align people initiatives and strategic resource plans with commercial priorities to support So Energy’s growth ambitions.
• Act as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, contributing to business strategy and operational priorities including monthly Board and RemCo presentations.
• Role model the right behaviours in respect of governance, security and compliance and continuously evolve company policies to remain relevant as the organisation scales.
• Build strong relationships across the ESB Group and with external partners, including initiatives like POWERful Women.
• Hold business leaders accountable for supporting the implementation of the people strategy effectively.
• Drive talent development, succession planning, and recruitment to meet future needs and support So Energy’s ambition.
• Ensure robust performance management and promote a high-performing, customer-focused, and values-driven team culture that fosters continuous improvement.

This role will be a great fit if:

• Proven experience in leading people strategies within a fast-paced, scaling organisation.
• Demonstrated expertise in cultural alignment, change management, and building high-performing, diverse teams.
• Strong track record in stakeholder management, including senior leadership and external partnerships.
• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to mentor and develop teams, drive accountability, and inspire collaboration.
• Passionate about diversity, wellbeing, and creating an environment where employees thrive.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON 31/01/25

Want to tailor your application? 

Hiring Process

1.  Talent Interview with a member of the Talent team
2.  People Team interview with our People Director and member of the people team
3.  Technical and Culture Interview with our CEO, and members of our Senior Leadership

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.