This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a newly formed team and establish our clients change & consultancy practice that will be embraced across our clients organisation. Your contributions will be crucial in providing a new capability and driving a high-performing, inclusive culture that puts people at the heart of decision making and aligns with our ambitious business strategy.
- Salary: 80-95K (DOE).
- Potential hybrid work options x days per week in office
- Private Medical Insurance after probation period
- Excellent perks/benefits package
- Flexible hours (School run etc)
- BUPA Cashback plan
- Annual professional study fees paid
- Holiday 25 days, plus Public Holidays and Birthday Day
- Free daily parking
- Company Social Events
- Life Assurance 3X Annual salary after probation
- Pension
As the People Director, you will play a crucial role in crafting our clients HR and people strategies. Reporting to the CEO/MD, you will be an integral member of the People Leadership team and wider Extended Leadership team.
The People Director is a professional who is responsible for developing HR strategies, overseeing operations, and ensuring compliance. They support the human factor, lead HR initiatives, develop culture and provide guidance.
The role:
- Setting and driving a people strategy.
- You will develop people growth plans that sit perfectly alongside our business growth strategy.
- You will oversee great quality performance conversations and promote a high performing culture across the business.
- You will develop effective succession planning and a well-resourced talent pipeline meeting current and future needs of the business.
- You will champion employee engagement, evaluating, identifying, and addressing engagement trends and measure successful implementation
- Working closely with business leaders and line management you provide expert guidance on a variety of people matters.
- Developing and improving rewards.
What you will be doing:
- Leading a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring all plans are aligned and delivered flawlessly while articulating risks and dependencies.
- You will develop people growth plans that sit perfectly alongside our business growth strategy.
- Partnering with senior directors to implement the strategic People, culture, and capability plan.
- You will collaborate with our central People & Culture team, department heads, managers, and employees to provide guidance, support, and solutions to HR-related challenges, driving initiatives that enhance HR processes, policies, and systems to ensure efficiency and compliance.
- You will oversee great quality performance conversations and promote a high performing culture across the business.
- Supporting management teams hands-on, driving initiatives, and resolving grievances.
- Ensuring seamless hiring and high talent retention with the talent acquisition team.
- You will champion employee engagement.
- Executing end-of-year reviews, supporting performance plans, onboarding, and exits.
- Working closely with business leaders and line management you provide expert guidance on a variety of people matters.
- Building strong relationships with the leadership team to ensure People plan progress.
- Promoting change in line with standard methodologies, identifying process improvements, and implementing colleague-centric practices to drive business outcomes.
- Enhancing leadership and people manager capability through coaching.
- Designing and implementing programs for employee engagement and well-being.
- Resolving complex employee issues while maintaining a positive work environment.
What our client is looking for:
- Proven experience in strategic HR leadership with a minimum 4 year experience in a similar role.
- Diligent and firm with high ethical standards.
- Senior HR experience at a People Director level
- Evidence of people culture development and transformation projects.
- Experience managing change and transformation, building culture, and focusing on competencies and behaviours.
- Creativity in everything that you do. You think outside the box in the day to day.
- Experience in people practices that can be adapted to my clients environment.
- A true believer in people potential and business culture.
- A track record of making tough decisions assertively yet humanely.
- Ability to think strategically and deliver operationally.
- Experience working in cross-cultural, and interdependent teams
- Proactive in leading this team and strategy to the next level.
- Strategic thinking and operational skills to support both the People agenda and overall company strategy.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to establish trust and respect at all levels.
- Excellent analytical, planning, and organisational skills.
- Ideally have an CIPD Level 7 qualification.