HR Director

Hays Business Support • Temporary • Telford, Telford and Wrekin, England, United Kingdom • £500 - £550 / day • 4d ago

Your new company
You will be joining a leading, global professional services organisation supporting one of its most strategically important market units. This business operates within a complex, fast-paced environment, delivering large-scale services to major public sector clients.With a strong focus on transformation, innovation, and people-led growth, this organisation offers the opportunity to work at senior leadership level, influencing both business strategy and workforce direction in a highly visible role.

Your New role
As HR Director, you will play a pivotal leadership role, reporting into the UK HR Director and working closely with senior business leaders. You will be responsible for shaping and delivering the people strategy for a large and complex business unit of 2,000+ employees.This is a hybrid, hands-on and strategic position where you will:

Lead future workforce planning, aligning capability with client demand, digital trends, and business growth
Drive talent attraction, retention and succession planning across critical roles
Own employee engagement, culture, and inclusion, improving morale within a hybrid workforce
Act as a strategic HR partner across major client engagements, bids, and transitions
Partner with senior leaders to support business growth, performance, and transformation
Provide coaching and challenge to leadership teams navigating change and complexity
Lead across employee relations and industrial relations, including union engagement
Champion D&I initiatives across the workforce
Embed data-driven decision making using people analytics and reporting

This role is based in Shropshire with an expectation of on-site presence 3 days per week, alongside flexibility to travel between office, home, and client sites.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful, you will bring strong, recent experience operating at HR Director or People Director level (typically 3-5 years), ideally within a complex, matrix organisation.You will also demonstrate:

Proven experience managing large-scale populations (2,000+ employees)
Strong background in transformation, workforce planning, and organisational design
Ability to influence and coach senior stakeholders at executive level
Deep expertise in talent management, engagement, and culture building
Experience navigating complex employee relations environments, including unions
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link people strategy to business outcomes
Experience using HR data and analytics to inform strategic decisions
Exposure to regulated or public sector environments (advantageous)

What you'll get in return

Day rate of £400-£550 (PAYE only)
Initial 6-month contract with potential for extension
Opportunity to work in a high-impact, senior leadership role
Exposure to large-scale transformation programmes and major client engagements
A hybrid working model offering flexibility and variety

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