People Business Partner

What Do We Do?

The shift to electric mobility is happening. Electra is accelerating it.

Transportation is one of Europe's biggest sources of carbon emissions. Since 2021, Electra exists to make charging so simple that electric vehicles become the obvious choice for everyone.

In 5 years, we've built a team of 300+ talents from 21 nationalities in 10 countries.

We’ve grown into one of Europe's leading fast-charging operators by deploying fast, reliable infrastructure and user experiences across our own network, and we’re now expanding to thousands more charging points in Europe with our new eMSP.

We’re backed by over €1 billion in funding, and we’re looking for passionate, collaborative talents to drive Europe’s energy transition with boldness and simplicity. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

Your Mission

As Electra enables its leaders to deliver across Europe, our People Business Partnering model is evolving from geography-based scopes to a matrix model built around business growth stage.

Join us as Associate People Business Partner to:

• enable Team Leads across Electra to make the right day-to-day decisions so their teams deliver and thrive

• independently coach Team Leads and manage routine People topics across a transversal, international scope (9 countries)

• work closely with both Senior People Business Partners , bringing in the relevant Senior for complex cases, senior leadership decisions and vertical workforce planning

• identify patterns across teams and share practical insights that help Senior People Business Partners strengthen their respective verticals, and Talent Development to define develop and deploy used and useful solutions

• work closely with People Operations, who provide first-line support and own reliable employee processes, and Talent Acquisition who partner with leaders and managers on recruitment needs

Your Responsibilities

1) Strengthen leadership - 45%

The manager is responsible for making decisions and having conversations with their team.

You use data, business understanding and trusted relationships to help Team Leads build engaged, high-performing teams.

You independently coach managers through day-to-day People decisions while involving the relevant Senior People Business Partner when a topic affects a wider vertical or requires senior leadership alignment. This means:

• Understanding business priorities, performance challenges, capacity and ways of working so your guidance connects People decisions to delivery

• Coaching Team Leads to set clear expectations, give useful feedback, address performance concerns and lead change without taking accountability away from them

• Identifying risks and patterns across your transversal scope, challenging assumptions and sharing actionable insights with the relevant Senior People Business Partner

• Contributing team-level insights to vertical workforce planning, organisation decisions, engagement priorities and consistent pay or mobility decisions

• Knowing when to escalate complex cases, senior leadership decisions or cross-vertical questions while remaining accountable for clear follow-through with the Team Lead

2) Contribute to, and deploy People Experience projects - 35%

• Contribute to key company-wide processes including performance cycles, promotions and mobilities, and salary increases, ensuring Team Leads are equipped and submissions are consistent and timely

• Help improve these processes by leveraging tools such as AI, frameworks such as Agile, user research and design thinking principles, and skills such as feedback

• Contribute practical insights from Team Leads and employees to help the wider People team design solutions that address root-cause challenges

• Deploy People projects to Team Leads, such as salary bands, the Career Map and leadership training, so our work is used, useful and easy to apply

• Strengthen and streamline collaboration across People Business Partnering, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Office teams

3) Handle routine cases and escalate complex risks - 20%

• Coach and guide Team Leads through routine employee relations topics, such as feedback, early performance concerns, team tensions and straightforward changes, balancing business needs, employee experience and consistency

• Bring sharp legal reflexes : recognise when a situation requires deeper employment-law expertise and involve the relevant Senior People Business Partner, People Operations or external legal counsel

• Think global, act local : consider the relevant European legal and cultural context without making assumptions or giving definitive legal guidance beyond your expertise

• Look beyond individual cases to identify recurring patterns, improve manager capability and prevent issues from repeating as Electra scales

Current Toolstack : Teamtailor (ATS), Notion (wiki), Google suite (sheets), Lucca (HRIS), Slack (team comms), Pigment (financial planning & data), Claude (AI)

What Will Help You Succeed

If the role speaks to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box.

Competencies

French and English are needed for this role. You’ll likely thrive if you also:

• build strong relationships quickly. You communicate clearly, listen closely and create trust with Team Leads across different functions and countries

• coach rather than take over. You help managers think through options, make sound decisions and own the conversations that belong to them

• connect People topics to the business. You consider performance, growth, capacity, cost, risk and organisational health when making recommendations

• get to the root cause of challenges. You ask focused questions, test assumptions and use relevant data before jumping to solutions

• combine judgement with hands-on delivery. You can independently manage routine work while recognising when complexity or risk requires senior support

• prioritise and manage expectations confidently. You create structure without complexity and focus on impact over output

• are curious, humble, proactive and keen to learn. You translate challenges into opportunities and get energy from setting others up for success

• balance employee experience, operational efficiency and compliance. You have broad awareness of European employment law and sharp reflexes for bringing in the right internal expert or legal counsel

• spot patterns across a transversal scope. You turn recurring questions and team-level signals into useful insights for both Senior People Business Partners and the wider People team

Even better if

• You’re confident using several tools in our tech stack, such as Lucca, Teamtailor, Notion, sheets and Claude.

• You have applied Agile, user research or design thinking practices in the People space.

• You have contributed to company-wide performance, compensation, mobility or manager-enablement processes.

⚡️ What Electra Offers You

• A key role in a massive international rollout of Europe’s largest fast-charging network

• Opportunities to grow across engineering, operations, and strategy

• A collaborative and mission-driven environment

• Real impact on the energy transition and the future of mobility

• An attractive compensation package with fixed and variable components (evaluated and paid quarterly)

• Brand-new offices in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris

• 2 days of remote work per week

• Alan health insurance (50% covered by Electra)

• Meal vouchers via Swile card (€10/day, 50% covered by Electra)

• 25 paid vacation days + 12 RTT (reduction of working time) days

• SYNTEC collective agreement (including vacation bonus, additional leave for special occasions, etc.)

• A quarterly company-wide event with the entire Electra team

• Sustainable Mobility Package

• Access to the company benefits platform (CSE) with numerous perks (culture, sports, etc.)

• Access to a platform dedicated to mental health, supporting your well-being at work and beyond, including up to 4 sessions per year with certified practitioners, covered by Electra

Even if your profile doesn't match 100% of every criterion, we encourage you to apply. At Electra, we strive to create an environment where everyone feels comfortable, safe, and free to be themselves.

We are committed to equal opportunities and do not tolerate any discrimination based on religion, cultural background, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

We value potential, motivation, and a learning mindset just as much as experience.