HR Director

HR Director | UK & ROI | Retail | Salary: Competitive + Benefits

We're supporting a high-profile, global retail & consumer brand in their search for an exceptional HR Director to lead the UK & ROI people strategy. This is a senior leadership role, partnering closely with the Regional Leadership Team to shape and deliver the HR agenda - driving a culture of inclusion, high performance, and engagement across a complex, fast-moving, multi-site environment.

The role
As HR Director, you'll be a strategic partner to senior leaders and the wider global HR community, ensuring people initiatives are aligned with both business priorities and global HR strategy. You'll lead and develop a talented regional HR team, working in partnership with global Centres of Excellence to deliver best-in-class HR services across Talent, Learning, Reward, and HR Operations.

You'll have full responsibility for cultural and organisational transformation - supporting growth, enabling change, and building organisational capability to meet future challenges. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion will be at the heart of your approach, ensuring every colleague has the opportunity to thrive.

HR Director Key responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver the UK & ROI people strategy in line with global objectives

• Partner with senior business leaders on workforce planning, organisational design, and transformation

• Lead, coach, and inspire the regional HR team, ensuring engagement and high performance

• Oversee complex, cross-border HR issues and navigate cultural diversity

• Champion DEI initiatives, ensuring they are embedded in all people practices

• Act as a trusted advisor to the senior leadership team and influence at board level

About you:

• Proven Senior HR leadership experience, ideally within a global or matrix retail/consumer environment

• Strong commercial acumen and a track record of influencing and coaching senior leaders

• Experience delivering complex change and organisational transformation

• In-depth knowledge of UK employment law and best practice

• Skilled at building high-performing teams and a collaborative, inclusive culture

• Strategic thinker with the agility to adapt to changing business needs

• CIPD Level 7 qualified (or equivalent experience)

This is a high-impact role for a dynamic, commercially minded HR leader who thrives in a fast-paced, people-first environment. If you're passionate about shaping strategy, enabling change, and delivering results, we'd love to hear from you.

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