Human Resources Director

Location: London

£140,000 + package

Are you a true business partner, not just a facilitator who can drive meaningful change through people, culture and performance? We are seeking an exceptional Human Resources Diretcor to partner directly with a President and its leadership team.

This is a high impact, commercially focused role for a visible and vocal leader who thrives on transformation, challenges the status quo, and turns people strategy into measurable business results.

The role:

Act as a strategic business partner to senior leadership coaching, constructively challenging and aligning people strategy to commercial goals including revenue, profit, cashflow and growth

Lead enterprise wide change and transformation, including restructures, organisational design and cultural evolution, while managing works councils, trade unions and employee representative bodies where required

Drive talent and performance outcomes through robust succession planning, talent development, learning strategy and performance management, leveraging analytics and AI-driven insight to anticipate workforce needs

Champion a high performance, values led culture, leading engagement surveys and embedding actionable plans that strengthen engagement, retention and organisational effectiveness

Lead and develop a high performing People function, fostering a collaborative culture across regional and central teams while ensuring full compliance across multiple countries

Deliver a differentiated employee value proposition and seamless employee experience, partnering with shared services and centres of excellence to provide consistent, high quality people support

Experience:

10+ years progressive people experience across multi-country environments

Expertise in business partnering and employee relations

Must have proven success leading large scale transformation and organisational change

Experience in complex, matrixed corporate environments

Strong commercial acumen and resilience in fast paced settings

Confident influencer who can challenge senior leaders constructively

Must have strong cultural awareness across Northern Europe

CIPD qualified (or equivalent professional body)