Head of HR & L&D in Leeds

The UK & Europe HR team delivers coordinated HR support across the region, translating business and global HR priorities into clear regional plans. The multidisciplinary team covers HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, working closely with HR Centres of Excellence and shared-service teams to provide a high-quality colleague and manager experience. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate HR activities across the UK and Europe, ensuring that business and global HR priorities are delivered effectively and consistently.
• Lead the regional HR team across HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and alignment.
• Oversee annual HR cycles, including performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession-planning processes.
• Partner with business leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, organisational change, and people-related transformation and integration activities.
• Maintain oversight of complex employee relations matters, employment law developments, regulatory requirements, policy updates, audits, and wider people-related risks.
• Oversee immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Coordinate regional benefits, recognition, wellbeing, and employee-experience programmes.
• Collaborate with the global HR Business Partner community, Centres of Excellence, and shared-service teams to implement enterprise programmes while meeting local legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Maintain effective service relationships with People Services, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, and other HR delivery teams, using governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor performance, escalate issues, and support continuous improvement.
• Manage regional HR projects, budgets, risks, dependencies, and governance activities while acting as a trusted HR partner to leaders and supporting the CHRO's strategic priorities.

Knowledge And Experiences

• Significant HR generalist experience gained within an international environment, with the ability to coordinate HR activity across multiple countries and stakeholder groups.
• Broad HR expertise spanning business partnering, employee relations, talent management, benefits, organisational change, and employee experience.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, regulatory, audit, and people-risk matters.
• Experience working with HR Centres of Excellence, People Services, and shared-service delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing regional and global priorities.

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of UK employment law and the legal, regulatory, and operational considerations affecting HR delivery.
• Experience overseeing immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Strong programme and project-management capabilities, including managing budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, and multiple workstreams.
• Ability to support annual HR processes covering performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession planning.
• Ability to use governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor service performance, escalate issues, and drive continuous improvement.

At TransUnion, we're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual's talents and perspectives are valued. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting ukrecruitment@transunion.

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you'll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. We do not accept any unsolicited CV's from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL, our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

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