Director of People & Performance

Zagreb, Croatia

About Polleo Sport

Polleo Sport is one of the leading sports nutrition, fitness, and wellness companies in the region, operating through retail, e-commerce, wholesale, FMCG, and international markets.

Over the years, we have evolved from a supplement retailer into a multi-channel fitness and wellness platform with our own brands, growing international presence, and strong focus on innovation, execution, and customer experience.

As the company continues to scale, we believe organizational quality, leadership quality, and talent density will become one of our biggest competitive advantages.

That is why we are building this role.

About role

This is not a traditional HR role. This role combines:

  • talent acquisition,
  • leadership development,
  • organizational design,
  • performance management,
  • and implementation of management systems and accountability culture across the company.

The goal is simple:
ensure Polleo has the right people, leaders, structure, and management discipline for the next phase of growth.

This is currently a lean, hands-on leadership role with a small core team consisting of 1 HR Recruiter and 1 Payroll Specialist.

The expectation is not to manage a large HR department, but to build organizational capability, leadership quality, accountability, and scalable people systems across the company.

Key Responsibilities:

Talent Acquisition & Hiring

  • Build and improve proactive recruitment strategies and hiring quality across departments
  • Develop structured hiring, interview, and leadership hiring processes
  • Build pipelines for key positions and reduce dependency on founders/executives in hiring
  • Implement hiring KPIs, employer branding, and referral initiatives

Performance & Leadership

  • Strengthen leadership quality and accountability across the organization
  • Standardize performance evaluation, talent reviews, and feedback processes
  • Support managers in difficult people decisions and performance conversations
  • Identify high performers, talent gaps, and organizational bottlenecks

Organizational Effectiveness

  • Improve organizational design, role clarity, and accountability structures to support scaling
  • Implement and maintain effective management systems, including scorecards, meeting rhythms, feedback loops, and quarterly execution discipline
  • Ensure leadership teams consistently execute agreed priorities and processes

Culture & Values

  • Protect and strengthen Polleo’s core values: Innovation, Teamwork & Honesty, Accountability, Fighter Mentality & Humility
  • Ensure values-based hiring, promotion, onboarding, and people decisions
  • Help maintain a high-performance, low-politics culture

Who We’re Looking For

We are looking for a highly business-oriented people leader who understands that organizational quality directly impacts company performance.

Must have:

  • Strong experience in talent acquisition and leadership hiring
  • Experience in performance management and organizational development
  • Strong business understanding (not only HR administration)
  • High ownership and execution mindset
  • Confidence in difficult conversations and decision-making
  • Analytical and KPI-driven mindset
  • Strong communication and leadership presence

Ideal background:

  • Scale-up or growth environments
  • Retail, FMCG, e-commerce, or fast-paced businesses
  • Consulting or organizational transformation
  • Experience working closely with leadership teams during scaling

Why Join Polleo Sport?

We offer:

  • A key leadership role with direct impact on organizational development
  • A fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment
  • Close collaboration with the leadership team and real organizational influence
  • Up to 3 work-from-home days per month
  • Comprehensive health check-up every 2 years
  • Access to the PassSport application
  • Employee discount on Polleo Sport products
  • Family benefits (day off for a child’s first school day & newborn bonus)
  • A dynamic, ambitious, and sports-oriented environment

If you want to build a high-performance organization and shape the future of one of the industry’s most ambitious companies — we’d love to meet you.

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