Chief People Officer

We’re partnering with a fast-paced and global business with a turnover around £1 billion – and expanding. They’re looking for an experienced Chief People Officer to lead their people strategy at a pivotal time in their expansion. If you’re passionate about people, performance, and bringing out the best in a global workforce, this could be the role for you.

As the Chief People Officer, you’ll play a central role in driving the people agenda across the business, reporting directly to the CEO. You will be instrumental in shaping and executing a people strategy that aligns with business goals and supports sustainable growth across all divisions. This is a cradle-to-grave HR role, offering you the opportunity to influence and improve the entire employee lifecycle.

• People Strategy Development & Execution: Lead the people strategy globally, aligning it with business goals and objectives. Ensure the strategy supports growth, performance, and employee engagement at every level.
• Compensation & Benefits: Oversee the development and implementation of competitive compensation and benefits programs that attract, retain, and motivate talent. Partner with finance to ensure alignment with budget and market trends.
• Employee Life Cycle Management: From talent acquisition and onboarding to development, retention, and offboarding – you’ll drive best practices and innovation in every stage of the employee journey.
• Onboarding & Talent Acquisition: Lead and enhance the recruitment process, ensuring we attract the best talent. Oversee a seamless onboarding experience that sets new hires up for success.
• Employee Relations & Legal Compliance: Be the primary escalation point for complex employee relations issues, disputes, and legal matters. Work with internal and external counsel to manage employment issues and mitigate risk.
• HR Systems & Technology: Lead the implementation and optimization of Workday to enhance HR operational efficiency, ensuring seamless integration with business processes.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I): Drive DE&I strategies to ensure a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment. Champion cultural change to reflect and support the company's values.
• Leadership Development & People Leadership: Provide leadership to the global HR team, mentoring and developing senior HR professionals. Ensure the HR team is empowered to be strategic partners to business leaders at all levels.
• Change Management & Commercial Support: Lead HR through organizational change, ensuring smooth transitions. Partner with senior leadership to drive change initiatives, providing commercial insights and support to meet business objectives.
• Performance Management & Culture: Develop and drive high-performance culture initiatives across the business. Oversee the design and execution of performance management frameworks that promote accountability and growth.

We’re looking for a fun, people-centric leader – someone who loves what they do, and that energy translates to those around them. Ideally, we want an HR leader who is comfortable making decisions at board level and working in a large global business, with experience across multiple time zones, cultures, and ways of working. This is exactly what you’d expect from a CPO role – cradle to grave, covering every aspect of the employee lifecycle and everything in between.

• Work in a stunning office environment in Surrey, with easy access to major transport links.
• This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing global business that’s growing fast.
• Lead the people function and shape the culture of a market-leading organization.
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including a 30% bonus, 10% pension, and a fantastic working environment.
• You’ll have the chance to work with talented people across the globe in an organization that values personal and professional growth.

If you’re a senior HR leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, loves solving complex problems, and is passionate about creating an inclusive, high-performance culture, we want to hear from you. It is very unlikely that we will be able to get back to people immediately on this. Please be patient whilst we review all applications and conduct our search. Those who are unsuccessful will be notified. Apply today to be part of an exciting future.