Global People Manager in City of London

IPC is a global fintech company that puts people at the center of innovation. With a strong global footprint, we empower financial institutions and capital markets with advanced cloud-based trading communications and managed connectivity solutions. Through our portfolio of communications and connectivity solutions, we focus on solving business challenges and adapting to regulatory changes in the fast-paced global financial markets. This enables our clients to maintain consistent market access, a strong competitive advantage, and enhanced operational efficiency.

Join a team that is dedicated to delivering groundbreaking products and making a significant impact on our clients' success.

Overview of the Team

You will lead IPC’s Regional People Partnering team, a globally distributed group of HR generalists based across NY, London, Madrid, and Kuala Lumpur. This team plays a critical role in delivering employee experience, ensuring compliance, and executing people programs across regions. As part of IPC’s evolving People function, this role sits at the intersection of People Operations, HR Business Partnering, and Talent Development. You will work closely with Global HR Business Partners, People Analytics, Talent Acquisition & Talent Development, Legal, Payroll, and IT. This role is key to ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability in how IPC delivers people support globally.

Role Overview

As the Global People Manager, you will lead IPC’s Regional People Partnering function, managing a team of five based across New York, Madrid, France, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and owning the delivery, quality, and consistency of employee-facing HR support across regions. This role bridges global People strategy and local execution, ensuring that programs, policies, and priorities are translated into practical, compliant, and high-quality outcomes across locations. You will bring strong HR Business Partnering experience, particularly in employee relations and complex people matters, and apply it to elevate team capability, strengthening judgment, consistency, and confidence in decision-making. Acting as a central point of coordination and alignment, you will bring structure and operational rigor across employee relations, compliance, performance processes, and local program execution, while contributing to the design and continuous improvement of global People programs. This role requires a strong global mindset, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively in complexity and ambiguity, with solid exposure to employment law and the ability to navigate and apply local requirements across different jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Capability Building: Lead and develop a globally distributed team of Regional People Partners, strengthening their capability in employee relations, judgment, and execution. Ensure consistent standards and high-quality delivery across all regions.
• Employee Relations & Case Oversight: Act as an escalation point for complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair, compliant, and well-judged outcomes. Guide the team in managing day-to-day employee issues with confidence and consistency.
• Compliance & Employment Law Coordination: Ensure the identification and application of local labor law requirements across regions, ensuring policies and practices remain compliant. Apply a strong global mindset to navigate different jurisdictions, even where deep local expertise is not required.
• Global Program Execution & Localization: Ensure global People programs (e.g., performance management, benefits, talent development, career growth) are effectively translated and executed at the local level. Contribute to program design by providing practical input to ensure scalability and real-world application.
• Location Unification & Employee Experience: Drive consistency in how HR support is delivered within each location, balancing global standards with local needs. Strengthen the employee experience by ensuring clarity, alignment, and cohesion across regional teams.
• Regional Coordination & Operational Excellence: Act as the central point of coordination for regional HR delivery, bringing structure, clarity, and discipline to processes and ways of working. Improve efficiency and consistency across employee-facing HR activities.
• Stakeholder People Partnership: Support managers and business leaders on employee-related topics, providing practical, balanced guidance. Reinforce consistent application of policies and processes like recruitment and onboarding ensuring that new hires are integrated smoothly into the company.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Elevate the quality and consistency of HR delivery across regions.
• Strengthen employee relations capability and decision-making.
• Ensure seamless execution of global people programs locally.
• Improve employee experience through structured, high-quality support.
• Build a scalable regional partnering model aligned with business needs.
• Act as a go-to expert on compliance and local HR execution.

Essential Skills and Experience to be Successful in this Role:

• Strong experience as an HR Business Partner in a global or multi-country environment.
• Strong leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.
• Solid knowledge of employment law and compliance in at least one region, with exposure to multi-country environments.
• Proven project management skills, managing and delivering People and Culture Programs.
• Strong judgment and ability to navigate complex people situations.
• Experience delivering HR programs and supporting business leaders.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving, and international environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficiency in English language.
• Bachelor's degree in HR management, business administration, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in fintech, technology, or high-growth environments.
• Exposure to HR transformation or operating model evolution.
• Experience working across EMEA and APAC.
• Strong collaboration mindset with ability to influence across functions.
• Other languages would be positively valued.

What’s in It for You?

At IPC, your compensation is only part of the package. We are committed to investing in a range of programs and initiatives to improve the overall experience of our employees. In addition to a collaborative, high-performing team environment, we’re pleased to offer benefits including:

• Competitive Base Salaries
• Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance and Optical Reimbursement
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• 25 Holidays per Year Plus Public Holidays
• Additional Time off for Charity Work and Volunteering
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Certification Bonus Program
• Access to “IPC University” our Internal E-Learning Platform
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Wellness Program
• Fitness Membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Employee Referral Scheme

Further information about your benefits will be provided during your onboarding process.

Additional Information:

At IPC, we believe that hybrid working creates an inclusive, flexible environment where employees can perform at their best, and teams can collaborate, innovate, and celebrate successes together. We spend around 60% of our time in the office and around 40% of our time working remotely. Some employees may be required to work from the office or client sites more than 60% of the time, if required by their role and/or client needs. Your precise work schedule will be determined by you and your Line Manager before commencement of employment with IPC.

You can explore more about our culture, offerings and commitment on our website.

IPC’s Work Culture:

The IPC work culture is one that fosters inclusion, prioritizes innovation, and maximizes potential. We are a global ecosystem, full of diverse people that together made IPC what it is today. Our strength as an organization is the sum of our different backgrounds, perspectives, skills and geographies; supported by an ironclad commitment to constructive dialogue and open-mindedness. We live and breathe our commitment to innovation by embracing bold ideas, seizing new opportunities and striving for excellence. Our people have continued to deliver ground-breaking solutions to our clients for over 50 years.