HR Director - Maternity cover

Location: UK based, supporting global teams 
Job status: Maternity cover – 12 months 
Reports to: SVP, HR

JOB PURPOSE
The HR Director is a senior people leader and trusted partner to the leadership teams across two key areas of Hyve’s business.
Working closely with senior leaders you will help shape and deliver the people strategy needed to achieve ambitious business goals. You will bring a global mindset, strong commercial judgement and a clear focus on culture, leadership, talent and high performance.
You will challenge and support leaders to build brilliant teams, make great people decisions and create environments where our people can do their best work – ensuring that as our businesses grow and evolve, our culture remains a real competitive advantage.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic People Leadership

• Act  as a trusted adviser, coach and constructive challenger to senior leaders
• Translate  business priorities and growth ambitions into focused people strategies  that drive performance.
• Bring  commercial judgement, people insight and a strong organisational  perspective to senior-level decision-making.

Culture & High Performance

• Champion  Hyve’s culture, aligning our people to the ‘why’ and ensuring our values  are reflected in how we lead, work and make decisions.
• Partner  with leaders to create high-performing environments with clear  expectations, strong accountability and a growth mindset.
• Use  employee insight and organisational data to identify opportunities to  strengthen engagement, culture and performance.

Leadership, Talent & Organisation

• Build  leadership capability, coaching senior leaders to lead their people and  teams with clarity, confidence and impact.
• Lead  talent and succession planning, ensuring strong pipelines for critical  roles and opportunities for our best people to grow.
• Shape  organisation design and workforce capability to ensure the businesses have  the right structure, talent and skills for the future.

Change & Growth

• Lead  the people agenda through growth, transformation and organisational  change, anticipating implications and opportunities early.
• Support  leaders to bring their teams through change with clarity, pace and  effective communication.
• Ensure  organisational change is commercially sound, well executed and balances  business outcomes, employee experience and risk.

People Leadership & Partnership

• Provide  senior-level judgement on complex people matters, balancing commercial  priorities, culture, employee experience and risk.
• Partner across the wider People team to deliver a joined-up, high-quality  experience for leaders and employees across our global teams.
• Play  an active leadership role within the Hyve People team, contributing to  Group-wide priorities and continually raising the impact of the function.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Significant  experience operating as an HR Director, senior HR Business Partner or  equivalent within a fast-paced, commercially driven global organisation.
• A  strong track record of partnering with and influencing senior leaders,  with the confidence to coach, challenge and shape decision-making.
• Strong  experience across culture, leadership, talent, succession, organisation  design and complex organisational change.
• Commercially  astute and pragmatic, with the ability to translate business strategy into  clear people priorities and outcomes.
• Experience  supporting international or geographically dispersed teams, alongside  strong UK employment law knowledge.
• An  engaging, credible leader who combines strategic thinking with the energy and drive to make things happen.
• CIPD qualified or equivalent senior-level HR experience.