MARYANNE NYANGORI

Spearheading the full spectrum of people operations across the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, driving excellence in people practices, building scalable frameworks, and enabling business success through streamlined HR operations.

• People Operations Leadership: Own and continuously optimise all core HR operations, including policy development, compliance, employee lifecycle, onboarding, HRIS management, compensation processes, payroll coordination (including EOR), and immigration.
• HR Partnering: Advise and coach leaders on employee matters and performance management.
• Employee Experience & Culture: Champion a people-first culture by driving inclusive policies, engagement initiatives, and feedback mechanisms
• Systems & Data Excellence: Lead HR systems optimisation, data reporting, and payroll processes.
• Project Delivery & Change Management: Deliver high-impact HR initiatives aligned with business goals, including reward reviews, performance cycles, and continuous improvement in people processes.

Owned and delivered end-to-end HR operations in a regulated healthcare environment, driving compliance, process excellence, and high-impact employee experiences.

• Acted as the first point of contact for HR, resolving 50+ monthly queries across contracts, onboarding, systems, and policies with consistency and efficiency.
• Led a full policy and template review, updating 10+ documents to align with UK employment law and CQC standards.
• Managed BambooHR data integrity and delivered insights on attrition, retention, and engagement to leadership.
• Streamlined onboarding processes, enabling hiring managers to confidently manage new starter workflows and improve day-one readiness.
• Coordinated monthly payroll inputs and collaborated with finance to ensure 100% accuracy and timely delivery.
• Ran a full HR file audit, closing compliance gaps and ensuring regulatory readiness.
• Supported delivery of cyclical people programmes, including performance reviews, engagement surveys, restructures, and exits.

Built the HR function from the ground up to enable scale-up operations across Africa and India, leading both strategic people initiatives and operational excellence in a high-growth tech environment.

• Designed and embedded scalable HR processes across the full employee lifecycle, aligning with business goals and local compliance.
• Advised and coached managers on performance, team growth, engagement, and change management, building leadership capability at all levels.
• Developed and implemented frameworks for onboarding, performance reviews, compensation reviews, and feedback culture, improving talent retention and employee experience.
• Owned HR systems, reporting, and people data analytics to support strategic workforce planning and leadership decision-making.
• Championed a culture of accountability, inclusion, and high performance by integrating people strategies with business outcomes.
• Managed a cross-functional HR and support team of 5, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement in delivery.

• As HR Business Partner at JUMO, a high-growth fintech, I partnered with senior tech and business leaders to scale people operations and strategy across six African markets, working closely with the global HQ in Cape Town. I led the full spectrum of HR initiatives—combining operational rigour with strategic foresight to embed scalable, compliant people practices in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia. I delivered inclusive, data-informed recruitment campaigns, drove leadership transitions, managed ER cases, and implemented people analytics to inform workforce planning. My experience navigating complex employment environments across diverse geographies sharpened my ability to lead HR at pace—building adaptable, compliant processes and aligning people strategy with business growth. This international grounding complements my UK-based HR work, where I continue to apply a commercial, agile, and inclusive lens to HR delivery.

• I launched my HR career at OnMobile, a dynamic telecoms company where I built a strong operational foundation across the full employee lifecycle. From coordinating recruitment and onboarding to supporting payroll, compliance, and employee engagement, I quickly became adept at managing core HR functions in fast-paced, multicultural environments across Kenya and India. These formative years sharpened my attention to detail, stakeholder management skills, and resilience—skills that have remained central to my work. More importantly, they instilled in me a deep understanding of the business value of HR, laying the groundwork for my growth into a strategic and operationally-excellent HR leader.