We are on an ambitious growth trajectory, not only scaling our organic operations in France and Germany, but also preparing for significant growth through strategic acquisitions. This is a critical time for our People function, which must evolve from reactive support to a proactive, strategic enabler of international growth.

We are looking for a VP of People to be the architect of our future organization, ensuring we build a scalable, high-performing, and empowering employee experience globally.

As the VP People, you will be a strategic member of the Executive Team, reporting directly to the CEO. You will be responsible for driving scalable people practices, organizational clarity, and leadership capability across a growing international team (France & Germany) to enable Matera’s strategic growth and foster an empowering employee experience.

You will lead, coach, and develop a dedicated, international People team: 6 People team members in France and 3 People team members in Germany.

Beyond leading the People function, you will serve as a key leadership coach and strategic advisor to your executive peers (VPs and Heads of), contributing directly to the collective strength and effectiveness of the entire leadership team.

What you will achieve (Key Outcomes in 12–18 Months)

Your success will be measured by your ability to deliver measurable, scalable impact across these four critical areas:

1. Organizational Effectiveness & Manager Capability

• Data-Driven Reviews: Implement regular People Business Reviews across all functions, utilizing actionable data to proactively identify and address key organizational and team-level challenges.

• Manager Empowerment: Equip 100% of our managers with effective routines for feedback, compensation conversations, and goal-setting, resulting in a measurable improvement in manager confidence and employee perception scores.

• Effectiveness Metrics: Achieve a measurable increase in overall manager effectiveness scores (e.g., as measured through our employee surveys).

2. Talent Acquisition & Onboarding

• Scalable Processes: Establish scalable, consistent, and high-quality talent acquisition processes that demonstrably reduce time-to-hire while maintaining a high bar for candidate quality across both France and Germany.

• Cultural Integration: Implement a robust and scalable onboarding program that ensures role clarity and cultural integration for new hires in all countries, leading to improved new hire retention rates.

3. Core HR Programs & Data-Driven Insights

• Global Consistency: Design, implement, and own core HR programs (e.g., global compensation frameworks, unified performance management cycles) that are consistent globally while allowing for necessary local nuance, showing clear adoption rates and positive feedback.

• Strategic Reporting: Establish a comprehensive data-driven HR dashboard that provides actionable insights to the Executive Team, leading to at least 3 org-wide strategic priorities being influenced and driven by People data.

4. People Team Development & Strategic Impact

• Team Capability: Build the People team’s capability to operate as a true strategic partner-acting globally while partnering locally-resulting in measurable improvements in People team efficiency and internal stakeholder satisfaction.

• Future Foundation: Lay the foundation for a comprehensive leadership development program and strategic workforce planning initiatives, with clear roadmaps and initial implementations in place.

Skills & Behaviors required for success

We are looking for a leader who is both strategic and deeply hands-on: an operator who can set the vision and execute the implementation.

Core expertise & acumen:

• Strategic & Operational HR Expertise: You have a deep understanding of HR fundamentals (talent acquisition, onboarding, reward, feedback culture) combined with the ability to translate strategic vision into hands-on, executable plans.

• Scalable Process & Program Builder: Proven experience in designing and implementing HR processes and programs from scratch that can effectively scale with rapid international growth.

• International & Multicultural Acumen: Operates comfortably and effectively in multicultural and multi-country contexts, understanding local legal and cultural nuances while driving global consistency (direct experience with France and/or Germany is a strong asset).

• Manager Enablement & Development: Strong ability to coach, support, and empower managers, particularly in critical areas like performance management, feedback, and team development.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Highly analytical, comfortable turning data into actionable insights and using reporting to drive prioritization and strategic discussions.

Leadership traits & cultural fit:

• Pragmatic, Hands-on, and Execution-focused: A “doer” who drives results and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves to ensure execution.

• Strategic Partner & Confident Advisor: Able to sit at the executive table, challenge constructively, and build trust and credibility with the CEO, leadership team, and managers.

• Change Leadership & Ambiguity Navigation: Deep understanding of change dynamics, with the ability to provide clarity, stability, and guidance during periods of organizational growth and ambiguity, especially during M&A integration.

• Balanced Empathy: Possesses deep empathy for both the employee experience and the critical business challenges and objectives.

• Growth Mindset: Enthusiastic about building, learning, and adapting in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Compensation & benefits

Perks:

• Salary/Compensation: Based on profile and experience (Package +130k) + BSPCE

• Onboarding: A two-week comprehensive onboarding to understand Matera’s operations and values, followed by job-specific training

• Parental support policy: A phased return to work for 4 weeks (80% time paid at 100%), plus 5 extra paid days off per year for sick children

• Sustainable Commuting Day (TTR - Temps de Trajet Responsable): 1 extra paid day off per year (divisible into two half-days) to encourage choosing sustainable transportation methods

• Menstrual Leave: 1 extra paid day off per month to better manage painful or debilitating menstrual periods

• Sport: Gymlib subscription for discounted fitness and sports activities

• Cultural perks: Access to the Leeto platform for cultural discounts (cinema, museums, amusement parks, etc.)

Statutory and standard benefits:

• Paid Time Off: Paid holidays and RTT days

• Health Coverage: Health insurance covered at 50%

• Insurance: 100% coverage of Death and Disability Insurance (Prévoyance)

• Holiday Bonus: Provided according to the SYNTEC collective bargaining agreement

• Transportation: Public transportation costs covered at 50%

• Equipment: A company laptop and necessary equipment will be provided

Practical information:

• Location: Paris

• Remote Work Policy: Favorable policy with 2 days per week of mandatory office presence

• Contract Type: CDI (Permanent Contract)

• Status: “Cadre” (Executive/Managerial status)

Please note:

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☝️ At Matera, we’re committed to equal opportunity and diversity, which is why all our positions are open to people with disabilities. Only your skills and motivation will make the difference!

🙋‍♂️ If you need any particular predispositions to carry out interviews in the best conditions, you can notify this when you apply and inform the Recruitment team.

1. 1st call with Raphaël (CEO)

2. 1st round with Gaïane (Head of HR France) + Cindy (HR TL Germany)

3. 2nd round with our executive team (other VPs)

4. Reference check & offer 🥳