Group Head of Human Resources

Group Head of Human Resources The Group Head of Human Resources will hold full accountability for shaping and delivering the organisation’s people strategy across a multi-entity structure. Operating at executive level, this role will act as a strategic partner to senior leadership, driving organisational design, workforce planning, leadership capability, and cultural alignment. The position requires a commercially focused HR leader who can translate people strategy into measurable business outcomes, ensuring scalability, governance, and long-term sustainability.

* Strategic Leadership: Define and execute a forward-thinking HR strategy aligned with growth objectives, advising executive leadership on organisational structure, succession risks, and workforce planning while strengthening overall organisational capability and leadership effectiveness. * Organisational Change & Transformation: Lead structured change initiatives linked to expansion, transformation, and redesign, ensuring continuity, engagement, and stability across the business during periods of change. * Executive Talent & Succession Planning: Oversee senior-level recruitment, build robust succession pipelines for critical roles, and proactively identify and develop high-potential talent to support future leadership needs. * Culture, Performance & Capability Development: Establish and embed a high-performance culture aligned with business values, own the performance management framework, and implement group-wide training, competency, and capability structures across leadership, technical, and professional disciplines. * Compensation & Workforce Economics: Develop and maintain a competitive reward strategy aligned with market conditions and financial targets, providing insight into labour cost structures, productivity, and organisational efficiency, while ensuring incentive frameworks support performance and retention. * Governance, Risk & Compliance: Ensure adherence to employment legislation and regulatory requirements, manage complex employee relations matters, and safeguard the organisation from legal and reputational risks through strong governance and policy frameworks. * HR Operating Model & Digitalisation: Design and implement a scalable HR operating model supported by effective systems and workforce analytics, enabling data-driven decision-making and reducing reliance on purely operational reporting. * Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration: Lead people-related due diligence activities during acquisitions, assess cultural alignment and leadership capability, and oversee structured integration processes to ensure business continuity and engagement. * Board & Executive Reporting: Deliver high-level workforce insights, predictive analytics, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership and shareholders, supporting proactive and informed decision-making. * HR Function Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing HR team with clear accountability, strong service delivery standards, and a focus on execution, commercial awareness, and measurable outcomes.