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

Strong 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.