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As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.

We are seeking an exceptional Head of People(VP) to support the transformation and growth of our Parking business, across North America and European markets. This is a senior, high-impact role for a people leader who thrives in a fast-moving, high-performing, product-led environment and can operate confidently across regions, cultures, and regulatory environments. This role requires someone who can influence, challenge, and align senior leaders across a complex, multi-brand environment.

You will partner closely with the Parking leadership team and CPO to shape and deliver a People & Culture strategy that enables our teams to grow, perform, and thrive. You will champion our values — Arrive Curious, Arrive Focused, Arrive Together — ensuring they show up in how we hire, develop, engage, reward, and lead.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic People Leadership

• Partner with the CPO and Parking ELT to build and deliver a people plan that supports rapid growth in North America and multiple European markets.

• Provide strategic counsel on organisational design, operating model clarity, leadership effectiveness, and cross-functional execution.

• Diagnose and remove structural and behavioural barriers to product delivery, performance, and customer impact.

• Bring clarity and structure in a multi-brand, mobility-centric environment, helping teams prioritise, focus, and execute.

• Inspire teams and leaders to embrace and embody our purpose and culture, ensuring alignment with values in everything we do.

• Partner closely with leadership, ensuring the organisation, behaviours, and ways of working support delivery velocity, roadmap clarity, and customer impact.
  
  

Parking and People Transformation

• Lead organisational design work across Parking, ensuring clarity of roles, spans, layers, decision rights, and cross-functional operating rhythms that support product delivery, customer impact, and integration across legacy brands.

• Champion and support the implementation of Workday across all Parking markets, ensuring readiness, adoption, and great user experience.

• Contribute to broader P&C transformation initiatives, shaping foundations for a frictionless, AI-ready people platform, including scalable systems, processes, and ways of working.
  
  

Talent, Growth & Performance

• Develop and execute talent strategies to attract, grow, and retain exceptional people across all markets, partnering with the Culture & Talent Team

• Lead the implementation of the new Arrive Performance process throughout Parking

• Raise leadership talent density, ensuring strong succession pipelines and capability uplift.

Culture & Engagement

• Champion the evolution of our culture, supporting embedding our values and engaging people into Arrive’s purpose and mission

• Strengthen belonging, collaboration, and connection across countries and teams.
  
  

Leadership & Influence

• Lead with clarity, empathy, and commercial awareness.

• Build strong relationships across the organisation and influence at all levels, including senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

• Thrive in ambiguity and operate at pace, bringing stability, structure, and focus where it’s needed most.

• Lead team of People Business partners
  
  

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Capability

• A senior People/HR leader with a background in mobility, transport tech, EV charging, parking, micromobility, connected car, smart mobility, or similarly complex operational/product ecosystems.

• Proven ability to support growth at scale in fast-paced, complex, or customer-led businesses.

• Strong understanding of European and US employment environments and cultural nuances.

• A track record of leading people-related transformation and implementing systems such as Workday (highly desirable).

• Strategic range and judgement to engage at an enterprise level, with potential to grow into broader executive People leadership
  
  

Leadership & Mindset

• Thrives working at pace and navigating ambiguity with confidence and calm.

• Someone who enjoys bringing order, clarity, and structure in dynamic and evolving environments.

• Deeply people-first, with a belief that culture and talent drive business success.

• Curious, adaptable, and values-led, aligned with Arrive Curious, Arrive Focused, ArriveTogether

• Able to quickly build trust and collaborate effectively across borders and teams.