Director, People Partnering
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
19 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, People Partnering
Fourth
• Act as a key partner to executive and senior leadership teams to shape and deliver business strategy through people initiatives • Translate commercial priorities into workforce, capability, and organisational plans • Drive alignment between regional people strategies (primarily US, UK, Bulgaria) and global business objectives • Provide thought leadership on organisational effectiveness, productivity, and performance • Lead the development and execution of global people programmes • Ensure consistency while allowing for local market adaptation • Lead, develop, and mentor a team of HR Business Partners across regions • Build capability within the HRBP team to operate as high-impact business advisors • Coach senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, and organisational health • Foster a strong, inclusive, and high-performing People function • Act as the senior escalation point for complex employee relations issues across jurisdictions • Ensure compliance with local employment law (US, UK, Bulgaria) and mitigate organisational risk • Establish consistent principles while navigating regional differences • Partner with leadership to design and implement talent strategies including workforce planning, succession, and leadership development • Drive performance management practices aligned to business outcomes • Own and evolve approaches to engagement, retention, and development • Ensure robust pipelines of future leaders across regions • Lead organisational design initiatives across functions and geographies • Drive data-led workforce planning and capability shaping • Ensure alignment to job architecture, career pathways, and workforce strategy • Responsible for shaping pay and performance philosophies, ensuring market competitiveness and internal equity • Leverage data and analytics to inform decision-making and provide actionable insights • Monitor trends across regions (attrition, engagement, productivity) and drive interventions
Job Requirements
- Essential: Significant experience in senior HR Business Partnering / People leadership roles (Director or equivalent)
- Global experience with strong knowledge of US/ UK and Bulgarian employment practices
- Demonstrated experience supporting operating in multi region environments
- Proven ability to operate at executive leadership level and influence decision-making
- Strong track record of leading global or multi-country HR initiatives
- Deep expertise across employee lifecycle: organisational design, talent, ER, performance, and change
- Desirable: Experience in international SaaS organisations
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to link people strategy to financial outcomes
- Experience leading global HRBP teams
- HR qualification (e.g., SHRM, CIPD or equivalent)
Benefits
- 🏖 Holidays. We all need to rest so you get 25 basic holidays with the option to grow up to 30 with service + your birthday off + bank holidays!
- ⌚️ ️Flexible working! Use our flexible working hours and hybrid working environments to manage it.
- 🧘♀️ Wellness activities and a lot of pampering included. On top of that, you can add gym subscription discounts.
- 💻 Laptop and equipment.
- 🏥 Healthcare expense claim tools!
- 📔 Like in life, at work we also want you to grow with certifications.
- 🎉 Annual meet ups!
- 👥 Enhanced parenting scheme!
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan provided.
- 🏦 Pension and life insurance? Several, for you to choose what looks convenient.
- 💷 On demand pay tools for you to be able to access salary even before the end of the month!
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