Europe HR Projects Leader

The Role

This is a 9-12 Month FTC.

This is a high impact opportunity to lead strategic, cross-country People & Culture projects and transformation initiatives across Chart’s European region. 

Working closely with the VP HR Chart Europe, regional leaders, P&C colleagues and functional stakeholders, you will turn key people priorities into well-governed programmes that deliver measurable outcomes. Your portfolio will span organisational transformation, people strategy, operational excellence, acquisition integration, employee experience and change adoption. 

You will bring structure to complex work, connect stakeholders across countries and functions, and ensure initiatives are delivered with pace, clarity and alignment to business needs.

About Us

What Will You Do?

• Lead and deliver regional People & Culture projects across Europe, translating business priorities into clear plans and success measures. 


• Drive organisational transformation programmes, including organisation design, restructuring, workforce optimisation and change management. 


• Coordinate cross-functional and geographically dispersed stakeholders, creating alignment across countries, businesses and functions. 


• Support acquisition and integration activity through effective due diligence, planning, execution and stakeholder engagement. 


• Use people analytics and business insight to inform decisions, monitor outcomes and demonstrate benefits realisation. 


• Develop communication, engagement and adoption plans, while providing clear progress reporting and facilitating leadership workshops and decision-making. 

Your Experience Should Be

• Significant experience leading complex HR or P&C projects, transformation programmes and organisational change in a multinational environment. 


• A strong track record of delivering large-scale, multi-country people initiatives involving senior leaders and varied stakeholder groups. 


• Excellent project management capability across planning, governance, resource management, risk, budgets, interdependencies and benefits tracking. 


• Broad understanding of people processes, with experience of areas such as organisational development, strategic workforce planning, talent, reward, engagement or HR operating-model improvement. 


• Confident influencing, challenging and engaging senior stakeholders in a complex, matrixed organisation, including facilitating workshops and leadership sessions. 


• Strong change management, analytical and communication skills, with fluent written and verbal English and the ability to travel across Europe when required. 

We’ve put together some criteria that we think are important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise are not an exact match. If you feel you can add value to this opportunity and to Howden more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you. 

Our Benefits Package

• A flexible, hybrid working environment


• Generous holiday entitlement package totalling 33 days annual leave


• Howden Pension Plan with a maximum employer contribution of 7%


• Company electric vehicle scheme through salary sacrifice


• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay


• Free onsite parking


• Healthcare cash plan


• Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary


• Group Income Protection plan


• Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal - Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, employee assistance programme, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing


• Dedicated Spark Service - free counselling, physiotherapy, financial support, medical second opinion, remote GP, personal training, nutrition consultations etc


• Financial planning & mortgage support


• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG ‘Bright Future’ initiatives - STEM ambassador & volunteering