HR Director

HR Director, Up to £150,000 + Strong Benefits, Remote Working with some travel (UK & Internationally)

Overview of the HR Director:

This role requires a skilled senior HR Director, with a high growth mindset, and strong regional knowledge and experience, to support our clients global businesses. Partnering with Group Leaders, Senior stakeholders, other HR Leaders and HR Leadership counterparts in the Rest of the World (Rest of the World defined as UK, Ireland, Europe, Africa and APAC). The HR Director defines the needs, implements the regional strategy, co-creates talent solutions, and provides leadership and support for the Portfolio Manager, Group Leaders and HR Partners within the business units.

The HR Director will need to be the voice of the collective and individual businesses within the Region as required, providing input into the development of global HR strategies. Acting as a trusted consultant and partner to the Rest of the World client group, across all aspects of talent planning and management, you will also provide oversight, direction, and development for all HR teams across their Region and ensure compliance with all legislative and Portfolio practices.

HR Director Duties:

• Support the Management in the creation of the HR strategy; translate strategic plans into HR initiatives that achieve the end goal; and oversee the implementation within your Region to ensure all the key objectives are met.
• Be strategically minded and growth focused, anticipating business needs in advance of the growth of Region. This includes identifying high potential talent within the Region for future roles, having robust EDPs and succession plans in place; and providing opportunities for the HR team to get exposure to and training in relevant areas, enabling them to be developed and therefore considered as a candidate for future roles.
• Continually develop a strong business acumen, regularly keeping updated and aligned on, and understanding, the business strategy, goals, priorities, talent strengths and risks. Ensure you are keeping informed/aware of industry trends and market practices
• Build strong partnerships with your key Business Leaders/Stakeholders (including corporate function leaders within finance, legal, IT) and gain their support and buy-in to HR practices and initiatives.
• Develop future HR Leaders to support the anticipated growth for the Region
• Drive and support a high-performance culture within the business, whilst also providing thoughtful and effective coaching to leaders on all aspects of leadership to help grow, develop, and maximise their capabilities
• Partner with the Group HR Leader, the ROW HR Leader, HR Directors, HR Specialists to create mandatory and optional programmes, playbooks, policies, etc
• Develop and implement programmes such as career paths, identifying high potential performers, succession planning (incl. identifying external talent), gap analysis leadership development, technical development, DEI, etc.
• Partner with Rest of the World (ROW) to ensure a consistent approach operationally to L&D Programs, Talent Development, Succession planning, sharing when it makes best business practices.
• Be the expert on employment legislation; responsible for ensuring compliance with all legislative and Portfolio requirements and practices. Ensure you stay current/updated on all employment law and compliance for the region, and ensure effective plans are in operation to mitigate risk.
• When required, take the lead, or work as part, of the due diligence team to gather, review, and assess data/information on the business’s various HR practices, flagging any inconsistencies or areas of potential concern, and providing recommendation on how to address
• Acting as a true HR Business Partner to all Portfolio employees based in Rest of the World, supporting the full employee lifecycle (recruitment to offboarding) and ensuring all RoW-specific processes and communications take place.
• Partner with Senior Management and Group Leaders on a wide range of talent management and organisational business challenges. Provide strategic and operational advice and recommendations to both business leaders and HR partners (such as organisational design, workforce planning, leadership development, performance optimisation, talent assessment, succession planning, employee relations, change management, leadership coaching, retention, etc.)

Experience Needed:

• Able to think strategically and tactically execute on key initiatives/deliverables. Must be willing and able to be hands on and deliver.
• Experience working in a high-growth business and demonstrated ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and change in a fast-paced environment.
• Sound business acumen and able to understand commercial drivers.
• Strong sense of ownership and drive, with a proven track record of success within a regional director role.
• Expert/extensive, sound knowledge of employment law across the UK, Ireland, and Europe and at least a sound knowledge of employment law knowledge in Africa and APAC, with the ability to know when to seek out additional expertise when required.
• Flexibility to work across all of Rest of World (including UK, Ireland, Europe, and APAC), with confidence of what you do know and confident when to bring in other regional HR expertise, bring in 3rd party expertise.
• Previous experience working in Software/SaaS/technology and the Banking, Insurance or Professional Services industry, particularly in a high-growth business, is highly desirable.
• Ability and willingness to travel as and when needed, at times with short notice, is essential.