Operations Specialist (12-Month FTC)

HSPG

HSPG is a social impact real estate company. Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities. There is a critical shortage of affordable housing across the UK. We partner with Local Authorities and institutional investors to acquire and manage high-quality, demand-driven homes across multiple tenures. Across our Living Sector platforms, we are on track to acquire 12,000 homes by 2030. These homes are grouped into portfolios, professionally managed by our team, and funded by long-term institutional capital. We deliver this through two specialist operating platforms: Seahorse and PPHA. Seahorse acquires, develops and manages homes for homeless residents across England through its Homeless Affordable Rent product, meeting urgent housing need with professionally managed, high-quality accommodation. North Star: creating over 5,000 homes by 2029. PPHA, the Group’s Registered Provider, partners with local authorities, housebuilders and investors to deliver Section 106 and grant-funded Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership homes, expanding supply and creating lasting social value. North Star: creating homes for over 8,000 families or individuals by 2030. Together, these platforms enable HSPG to meet housing need at scale, creating meaningful social impact for customers and residents, while delivering sustainable, long-term returns for our partners. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core behaviours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core Mission Your core mission is to protect the CEO’s time and thinking bandwidth by owning the detail, follow-up and exploratory work beneath current and future-facing ideas. You turn early-stage thinking into structured decisions, fast experiments or clear no-go conclusions, working with the internal teams, without slowing the wider business down. This role exists so the CEO can focus on strategy, capital and impact, while nothing slips underneath. This is a high-trust, high-standards leverage role. Not a yes-person, not a shadow executive, but a force multiplier. Make it your mission to make it fun. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obsess You obsess over: * Clarity from ambiguity: turning half-formed ideas into structured thinking. * High-leverage output: outcomes over activity. * Relentless follow-up: nothing dropped, nothing drifting. * Commercial, mission-driven judgement: balancing impact and financial reality. * Speed from idea to action: reducing friction between thinking and execution. * If you are not obsessed with these, this role is not for you. Excel You excel at: * End-to-end ownership: taking workstreams from first question to final decision. * BLUF communication: bottom line up front, concise summary followed by relevant detail. * Sharp questioning: joining dots quickly and challenging constructively. * Operating at pace: progressing work without constant prompting or supervision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accountability You are accountable for: * Early-stage research. * Meeting preparation, action capture and structured follow-through. * Delegating and tracking actions across internal and external stakeholders. * Owning CEO-adjacent project workstreams. You are not accountable for: * Platform P&L ownership. * People management. * Culture leadership. * Brand or marketing direction. * Operational process design across platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specific experience * Experience in investment, consulting, real estate, corporate strategy or similar high-intensity environments. * Proven experience working closely with senior decision-makers. * Strong analytical and financial modelling capability welcomed, but not essential. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Progression * This is a high-leverage launchpad role. * There is no fixed progression path, which is deliberate. * If you crush this role, you will outgrow it. * Strong performance can lead into multiple areas of the business including investment, development, capital, operations or platform leadership. * Progression is not time-based. It is impact-based. * As you demonstrate sustained leverage, ownership and judgement, wewill work with you to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90 day wins * Early traction and proof of control. * CEO time is materially protected from research, admin and follow-up. * 100 percent of relevant meetings captured with actions owned, delegated and tracked. * At least one initiative delivered end-to-end without CEO involvement. 12 month impact outcomes * Material impact and results within first 12 months. * CEO consistently operating at strategy, capital and impact level. * Clear track record of disciplined experimentation, ideas launched, tested, iterated or intentionally killed. * Time from idea to model to decision materially reduced across projects (utilising skills internally). * SLT confidence in leverage, reliability and execution speed materially increased. * Demonstrable business impact directly accelerated by ownership and structured follow-through These outcomes are bonus-linked and reviewed monthly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Moonpig Group

We’re the Moonpig Group – home to Moonpig, Greetz, Red Letter Days and Buyagift – and we’re on a mission to make people feel loved, celebrated and remembered. Whether it’s a card that gets them laughing out loud or a gift that makes their day, we help people stay close, no matter the miles. We’re proud to be leading the online gifting revolution, with brilliant products, clever tech and a whole lot of heart. Our platform makes it easy to create moments that matter – packed with personal touches and delivered with care. We’re not just about selling cards or gifts – we’re here to spread joy, spark smiles and make every celebration feel extra special. And with values that guide how we work and support one another, we’ve built a place where people (and ideas) can truly thrive. If you’re looking to make an impact, bring your spark and be part of something meaningful – we’d love to have you on the team. 🌙🐷 We’re looking for a Group Financial Controller to lead a broad portfolio across Group reporting, governance, compliance, and finance operations within a listed business environment. This is a high-impact role with significant visibility across senior leadership, the Audit Committee, and Board, offering the opportunity to influence how Finance supports the wider business as we continue to scale. This role offers a unique opportunity to step into a broad leadership position with exposure across multiple specialist areas including external reporting, tax, treasury, sustainability reporting, controls, compliance, risk management, and finance transformation. You’ll join a fast-paced, collaborative environment where curiosity, commercial thinking, and adaptability are highly valued. There’s plenty of scope to shape the role over time as priorities evolve and new regulatory requirements emerge. We would be open to candidates that would like to take this role on a permanent or a 12 month Fixed Term Contract basis. This is a hybrid role in our London Head Office (2 days a week -Tuesdays and Thursdays) 

GoCardless

About us GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking.  GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions. We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States. At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!  And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for a Global Performance Marketing Manager to own paid media strategy and execution across our global demand generation campaigns (UK&I, Europe and North America). Reporting to the Director of Global Demand Generation and working in close partnership with the Senior Global Campaign Manager, you will be responsible for how we reach our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) - translating campaign narratives and messaging into high-performing paid media programmes that drive pipeline and closed-won bookings.  You will define how we show up in-market: architecting campaigns in-platform, shaping audience segmentation, setting the testing framework, and leading the relationship with our paid media agency.  This is a specialist role operating within a sales-led GTM motion and an ABM framework. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Own and scale paid acquisition across channels - including LinkedIn, Meta, and Demandbase - bringing deep platform expertise and a proven track record of scaling paid social to efficiently reach target accounts. * Lead media planning and budget allocation, owning paid social budget decisions globally and using data to inform campaign architectures that reach target accounts efficiently and predictably. * Architect campaigns in-platform, translating briefs and messaging frameworks into effective campaign structures. * Lead audience segmentation, mapping the SAM into platform audiences and ensuring targeting precision across business segments and personas. * Define creative requirements and ad formats for each channel, working with the wider DG team (Campaigns, Content, Design, Regional managers) to ensure assets are fit for purpose. * Own the testing framework, running structured experiments across creative, audiences, and channels, and feeding performance insights back to inform future campaign strategy and messaging. * Manage our paid media agency partnership, overseeing in-platform execution, defining the guardrails they operate within, and driving continuous performance improvement. * Deliver channel performance reporting, providing insights needed to assess campaign effectiveness. * Build robust attribution and measurement, partnering with Marketing Operations to establish accurate cross-channel attribution - connecting in-platform performance data to commercial metrics that matter to the business. * Collaborate with Regional Demand Generation Managers on local market strategy, audience priorities and budget allocation to ensure global campaigns land effectively. * Proactively identify opportunities to improve campaign processes, platform performance, and testing rigour. SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS * You have a minimum of 3–4 years of solid paid media or performance marketing experience, ideally within B2B FinTech, payments, or SaaS. * You have proven experience executing within a sales-led go-to-market engine rather than self-serve, with familiarity of ABM and enterprise buying cycles. * You have hands-on expertise with paid media platforms and are comfortable owning campaign architecture end-to-end in-platform. * You are analytically strong, with the ability to interpret performance data, run structured tests, and turn insights into clear recommendations for both media optimisation and creative direction. * You have experience managing agency relationships, setting clear expectations, and holding partners accountable to performance. * You are proficient in campaign-related technologies including CRM, MAP, and ABM platforms. Base salary range: £63,200 - £94,800 Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work. (SOME OF) THE GOOD STUFF * Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover * Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period * Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle * Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution * Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure * Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget * Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’) LIFE AT GOCARDLESS   We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.  DIVERSITY & INCLUSION As of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices. To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as: Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25%  Neurodiverse — 9%  LGBTQIA+ — 9%  Disabled — 1%  Average age — 33 Female — 45% Male —  55%  We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support. If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here Sustainability We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here. Find out more about Life at GoCardless via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.