Leads the EMEA Field HR Business Partner team supporting over 3,000 employees across 22+ countries. Partners with senior leaders on workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, talent development, succession planning, employee and labour relations, organisational design, change management, and business transformation. Uses workforce insights to guide decisions, manages organisational risk, and drives a consistent employee experience while developing HR professionals and supporting enterprise-wide initiatives.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an experienced HR leader to head our EMEA Field HR Business Partner team. Reporting to the Global HR Director, you will partner with senior business leaders across the region to shape and deliver people strategies that drive organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent development, and business transformation.
This is a highly visible leadership role with responsibility for leading a team of HR Business Partners supporting more than 3,000 employees across 22+ countries. You will play a key role in influencing regional business strategy, developing leadership capability, and ensuring a consistent, high-quality people experience across the EMEA region. This is a hybrid position based in Basingstoke, with an expectation of working from the office three days per week.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead, coach and develop a team of HR Business Partners across EMEA, building a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement and high performance.• Partner with senior business leaders in the region to shape and deliver people strategies that support business growth, organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and workforce planning across multiple countries and functions.• Drive talent initiatives across the region, including succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, retention and organisational capability, ensuring the organisation is well positioned for future success.• Act as a trusted partner on complex organisational, employee and labour relations matters, providing strategic guidance on change management, workforce transitions, organisational design and business transformation initiatives.• Leverage workforce insights and data to identify opportunities, manage organisational risk and influence decisions that improve employee experience, business performance and long-term organisational effectiveness.• Collaborate closely with HR Centres of Excellence, People Operations, Employee Relations, Compliance and business leadership teams to deliver a consistent, high-quality people experience across the EMEA region and support enterprise-wide initiatives.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organisational Development, Psychology, or a related field. • Extensive HR experience, including significant HR Business Partner experience supporting multiple business units, regions, or complex organisational environments, along with experience leading and developing HR professionals. • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, and business transformation initiatives. • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business priorities into effective people strategies that deliver measurable outcomes. • Expertise in employee and labour relations, organisational design, change management, workforce risk management, and employment law within a complex, matrixed, and international environment. • Excellent consulting, coaching, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence at all levels of the organisation. • Strong analytical capability, using workforce data and insights to inform decisions, identify opportunities, and improve organisational performance. • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and balancing strategic priorities with operational execution. • Fluent in English; additional European language skills are an advantage. • Willingness to travel, as required.
Total Rewards: We understand that rewards are an important consideration as you plan the next step in your career. In addition to a competitive salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus with a target pay-out of 20% of base salary. You'll also enjoy annual paid leave, access to our ULS University to support continuous learning and career growth, two volunteering days each year to participate in community activities, and flexible working arrangements designed to support work-life balance.
What you'll experience working for ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we're still leading the way. From day one, we've blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That's where you come in - because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It's a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today - and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you'll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we're also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future - one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the centre of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
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Disclaimer: This role is gender-neutral and open to all qualified applicants, regardless of gender identity or expression.
ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Advancing our mission of working for a safer world starts with our people. We have over 15,000 team members around the world, each making a valuable and essential contribution to creating a safer future. Whether it's hiring top talent, empowering our people to learn new skills or providing critical hands-on support, we are always finding new ways to deliver a better employee experience. We're looking for people to share their ideas and help us create a diverse, engaged culture that's united by a passion for safety and sustainability. Join our team, shape our culture and support our global community of experts.
We are looking for an experienced HR leader to head our EMEA Field HR Business Partner team. Reporting to the Global HR Director, you will partner with senior business leaders across the region to shape and deliver people strategies that drive organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent development, and business transformation.
This is a highly visible leadership role with responsibility for leading a team of HR Business Partners supporting more than 3,000 employees across 22+ countries. You will play a key role in influencing regional business strategy, developing leadership capability, and ensuring a consistent, high-quality people experience across the EMEA region. This is a hybrid position based in Basingstoke, with an expectation of working from the office three days per week.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead, coach and develop a team of HR Business Partners across EMEA, building a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement and high performance.• Partner with senior business leaders in the region to shape and deliver people strategies that support business growth, organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and workforce planning across multiple countries and functions.• Drive talent initiatives across the region, including succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, retention and organisational capability, ensuring the organisation is well positioned for future success.• Act as a trusted partner on complex organisational, employee and labour relations matters, providing strategic guidance on change management, workforce transitions, organisational design and business transformation initiatives.• Leverage workforce insights and data to identify opportunities, manage organisational risk and influence decisions that improve employee experience, business performance and long-term organisational effectiveness.• Collaborate closely with HR Centres of Excellence, People Operations, Employee Relations, Compliance and business leadership teams to deliver a consistent, high-quality people experience across the EMEA region and support enterprise-wide initiatives.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organisational Development, Psychology, or a related field. • Extensive HR experience, including significant HR Business Partner experience supporting multiple business units, regions, or complex organisational environments, along with experience leading and developing HR professionals. • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, and business transformation initiatives. • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business priorities into effective people strategies that deliver measurable outcomes. • Expertise in employee and labour relations, organisational design, change management, workforce risk management, and employment law within a complex, matrixed, and international environment. • Excellent consulting, coaching, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence at all levels of the organisation. • Strong analytical capability, using workforce data and insights to inform decisions, identify opportunities, and improve organisational performance. • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and balancing strategic priorities with operational execution. • Fluent in English; additional European language skills are an advantage. • Willingness to travel, as required.
Total Rewards: We understand that rewards are an important consideration as you plan the next step in your career. In addition to a competitive salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus with a target pay-out of 20% of base salary. You'll also enjoy annual paid leave, access to our ULS University to support continuous learning and career growth, two volunteering days each year to participate in community activities, and flexible working arrangements designed to support work-life balance.
What you'll experience working for ULS
UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we're still leading the way. From day one, we've blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.
That's where you come in - because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.
This is more than a job. It's a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today - and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you'll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.
Everyone here is unique. But we're also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.
Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, we help build a better future - one where everyone benefits.
Join UL Solutions to be at the centre of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com
#LI-Hybrid
#LI-SG1
Disclaimer: This role is gender-neutral and open to all qualified applicants, regardless of gender identity or expression.
ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Advancing our mission of working for a safer world starts with our people. We have over 15,000 team members around the world, each making a valuable and essential contribution to creating a safer future. Whether it's hiring top talent, empowering our people to learn new skills or providing critical hands-on support, we are always finding new ways to deliver a better employee experience. We're looking for people to share their ideas and help us create a diverse, engaged culture that's united by a passion for safety and sustainability. Join our team, shape our culture and support our global community of experts.
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