About this role
I am working with my ambitious high growth professional service client who are headquartered in London but have a truly global reach who are looking to recruit a Head of People and Culture.
Due to their next 5 year business strategy this is an exciting newly created role where you will play a key integral part of shaping and delivering on people experience and culture to allow high performance growth bringing together specialist HR teams such as Culture, Diversity, Inclusion and belonging, Wellbeing, engagement and people communications.
Your duties will include
- Develop and Improve employee experience which includes leading the creation and delivery of the employee experience across the employee lifecycle
- Grow and develop culture and engagement and lead & deliver initiatives that support the company culture, employee engagement and alignment with the business values, behaviours and strategy.
- Lead the DEIB agenda including translate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging plans into practical programmes and measurable outcomes.
- Strengthen wellbeing and to Lead the wellbeing strategy, using business and people insights to understand pressures and shape practical responses.
- Supporting employee voices into decision-making and to help develop effective ways to listen to people population and turn feedback and insight into actions.
- Lead employee experience communications and engagement plus working with people teams on communications that help the workforce understand, access and contribute to initiatives covering culture, DEIB, wellbeing and the wider employee experience.
- Support people & culture change including working with business leaders and the wider People function to translate organisational values and culture priorities into practical activity across the employee experience.
- Use relevant people data, employee feedback and engagement measures to understand what is working, identify priorities and assess the impact of initiatives.
- Build brilliant relationships across HR, communications, DEIB, wellbeing and business leadership, connecting related activity and creating a more collaborative employee experience.
- Set clear priorities and objectives for the People & Culture team, supporting effective delivery while maintaining momentum through change.
Experience and capabilities
- Senior HR experience with a strong focus on areas such as employee experience, culture, engagement, DEIB, wellbeing & people communications.
- Designing and delivering organisation-wide people initiatives that support employee experience, inclusion, engagement and organisational performance.
- Understanding of the employee lifecycle and how different policies, programmes and interactions collectively shape the employee experience.
- Experience leading on change activity in partnership with senior leaders and business stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to make complex people priorities clear, relevant and accessible to different audiences.
- Credibility and Senior Stakeholder influencing skills to work effectively with senior leaders and stakeholders in a complex organisation.
- Ability to turn priorities, employee insight and data into practical actions and measurable outcomes
- A CIPD qualification, relevant postgraduate qualification, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience working within professional services, a partnership, matrix organisation or another complex organisational environment.