Charlotte Hardwick

Charlotte Hardwick

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Head of People, Talent & Business Operations
England, United Kingdom

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    Co-Founder
    Londons Supper Club
    Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)
    > Co-founded and host a private dinner series for founders, operators and investors across London's startup scene, hosted at The Salad Project - guests from OpenAI, DeepMind and leading VC funds. > Secured sponsorship to keep every edition free to guests - The Salad Project (venue and food discount) and Eka Ventures (talent access and positioning) - both closed directly; currently expanding the sponsor base. > Built a curated format rather than a networking dinner: optional pre-reading circulated ahead of each edition and a hosted discussion on the night. > Seven editions to date, rooms capped at c.12 by design; 90 inbound requests to attend, every guest selected. > Own curation, venue partnership, programm
  • Ballymaloe Cookery School
    Chef in training
    Ballymaloe Cookery School
    Apr 2026 - Jul 2026 (4 months)
    > 12-week full-time residential certificate on a working organic farm: daily production cooking, butchery, baking and preservation, from 6am service onwards. > One of 66 students on the course; assessed by practical and written exams. > Extra-Curricular: Built a food Instagram from a standing start, shooting and editing reels around the full-time course timetable - 184k views in three months.
  • Healf
    Head of People & Business Operations
    Healf
    Aug 2025 - Apr 2026 (9 months)
    Led the people function for a £100m ARR (FT1000 #1), 200-person business, managing a team of 7 (6 remote talent, 1 UK). > Owned hiring across every function and close to zero regrettable attrition across the scale-up. > Held the talent bar by reviewing sourced candidates one-by-one with team leads before anyone entered the pipeline - deliberately slower at the top of the funnel to protect quality at volume. > Designed and delivered the 3-day annual company retreat for 90 people end-to-end: built the programme, managed 'on-brand' partners such as SANCTUM as external facilitator, and produced all event branding and materials with no brand team involvement (booklet, stickers, signage). > Planned and executed the London office relocation fr
  • Healf
    Head of People & Talent
    Healf
    Sep 2024 - Jul 2025 (11 months)
    First people hire; scaled the business from 45 to 200 people (+344%) in 11 months - 155+ net hires, majority sourced and closed in-house/our wider network. > Sole operator for the first two months - running full-cycle hiring alongside all-hands, culture and operating rhythm, office management and IT/laptop provisioning. > Built the talent function from there: moved the CEO's EA (Philippines) onto the team as a remote recruiter and, as a team of two, filled every open role across the company for 8 consecutive months, later adding a contractor for capacity. >Selected and implemented the company's first HRIS (Humaans) and ATS (Teamtailor), replacing spreadsheets with a single source of truth for people data and hiring pipeline; scoped and r
  • Prime Video  Amazon MGM Studios
    Commercial Manager (UK), Prime Video
    Prime Video Amazon MGM Studios
    Sep 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 1 month)
    Managed a multi-million-pound portfolio of four major studios, from deal analysis to negotiation and joint business planning, delivering $MM+ in revenue and $XXK in incremental profit for the UK transactional video on demand (TVOD) business. Extra-Curricular: > International Women's Day (IWD) Volunteer – co-produced Prime Video IWD Campaign involving Gabby Logan on ‘How women are changing the game in sport’ > Social Shifters x Amazon Global Refugee Challenge Judge, assessing +10 young people’s entrepreneurial ideas with a positive social/environmental impact
  • TikTok Shop
    Strategy and Growth Lead (Driving merchant growth)
    TikTok Shop
    Feb 2022 - Aug 2022 (7 months)
    Asked to move onto this part of the business given my Amazon background managing vendors at scale. At TikTok Shop UK, I led the mass-merchant growth strategy at launch - supporting thousands of sellers, from large brands to smaller vendors. Partnered with product teams to design and roll out seller lifecycle strategies that rapidly scaled the number of active merchants
  • TikTok Shop
    Senior Operations Manager
    TikTok Shop
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 (2 months)
    Headhunted from Amazon. Tasked with adapting TikTok Shop’s global partner model to the UK market, where dynamics were very different - took initiative to explore local ecosystems and design an approach suited to the UK market - huge degree of ambiguity.
  • Amazon
    Team Lead (Commercial), EU Retail
    Amazon
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 1 month)
    Managed a team of Vendor Managers (VM), led on high profile EU projects across a team of 54 and worked with a cohort of strategic/holdout vendors.
  • Amazon
    Vendor Manager (Commercial), EU Retail
    Amazon
    May 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 10 months)
    Exceeded sales targets for EOY 2020: Placed #1 in EU for revenue within my team (out of 54 VMs) (+705% vs target) and am a fast-track promotion (average tenure is 26 months; I was promoted in 20 months). Signed the highest performing vendor across the EU team generating $XXM in revenue.
  • Monzo Bank
    Customer Operations
    Monzo Bank
    Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 (7 months)
    Customer operations; consistently a top-5 performer company-wide. Left for the Amazon graduate scheme.
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    Press Assistant - Music PR (Final Year University)
    FAMILY PR LIMITED
    Jul 2017 - Aug 2017 (2 months)
    Press team for Wilderness Festival
  • Khadi London
    Intern - Communications Lead (Final Year University)
    Khadi London
    Jan 2017
    • Reviewed potential partnerships with local NGOs to enhance community engagement • Designed and implemented online communication strategy improvements for client growth, awarded 1st in consultancy report (80%) • Achieved a month-on-month growth in online audience by 39% through strategic initiatives
  • UCL
    Campaign Caller - Manager (2nd Year University)
    UCL
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2015 (3 months)
    • Persuaded UCL alumni to donate to the university with strong interpersonal skills • Achieved top caller status in first week with a 100% conversion rate • Promoted to manager for summer campaign due to outstanding performance
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    First year Representative/Marketing Officer (1st and 2nd Year University)
    UCL Law for All Society
    Sep 2014 - Jun 2016 (1 year 10 months)
    Successfully secured the society's first magic circle sponsor, resulting in a 200% increase in society membership.
  • UCLU
    Chairperson of Ramsay and Ian Baker Hall Social Events Committee (1st Year University)
    UCLU
    Sep 2014 - Jan 2015 (5 months)
    • Organised UCL's first fresher summer ball at Café de Paris, creating an on-going legacy along-studies. • Managed a budget of £15,000 through 500 ticket sales for the ball. • Organised regular social events for 500+ students in student accommodation.
  • Debate Mate
    Debating Mentor (1st Year University)
    Debate Mate
    Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)
    • Mentored year 6 students at Flagship School sponsoring the programme Debate Mate in London, teaching public speaking skills with passion. • Developed curriculum and lesson plans to enhance students' debating abilities. • Organised and facilitated debates, fostering critical thinking and communication skills.
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  • Ballymaloe Cookery School
    12-week Certificate
    Ballymaloe Cookery School
    Apr 2026 - Jul 2026 (4 months)
  • University College Maastricht
    ERASMUS Exchange Year, The Netherlands
    University College Maastricht
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2017 (11 months)
  • UCL
    Bachelors of Arts and Sciences (BASc Hons) (Liberal Arts, Final year modules focusing on on Business and Organisational
    UCL
    Sep 2014 - Jul 2018 (3 years 11 months)
    interdisciplinary studies: Digital Business (73%), Digital Marketing (77%), The Knowledge Economy (78%), Quantitative Methods (72%); Qualitative Thinking (71%) - 1st in dissertation - on menstrual-product advertisements and their effects on women's perceptions/experiences of menstruation via primary research - organised UCL's first ever fresher summer ball for 10k students, a legacy which remains today
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