Associate Director, People and Culture

Pratt & Whitney; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking an Associate Director People & Culture to shape and implement their People Strategy. This hybrid role involves collaborating across functions and ensuring alignment to an inclusive corporate culture. Candidates should possess strong business acumen and a deep understanding of talent strategies. The position is based in various UK locations including Gloucester, Harlow and Livingston.

Qualifications

• Ability to analyze data to influence key decision-making.
• Experience building talent strategies including assessment and succession planning.
• Comfortable challenging ingrained cultures and behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Shape and embed the People Strategy to drive business growth.
• Collaborate across functions regarding Talent Acquisition and Management.
• Support People & Culture Partners in aligning culture and behavior.

Skills

Strong business acumen

Data analysis proficiency

Experience in evolving talent strategies

Change management skills

Project management experience

Coaching and influencing skills

Knowledge of UK employment legislation

Problem-solving ability

Experience in a matrix environment

Job description

Date Posted:

2025-08-22

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Role: Associate Director People & Culture

Location (s): Hybrid – associated with these UK locations – Harlow, Livingston, Gloucester, Glenrothes, Livingston

Role:

Raytheon UK, aims to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, to enable us to meet our customer needs which in turn helps drive business growth and innovation. We base this on creating an inclusive environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do the best work of their lives.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director People & Culture to shape and embed our enterprise-wide strategy to enable business growth as part of our People Strategy.

We are looking for a leader who can understand our matrix business, move with agility between strategy and delivery, with a focus on moving our organisation forward. This role will work across our matrix structure to deliver across our employee life cycle (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership development, Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Organisational Design, Organisational Effectiveness) collaborating across our Centres of Expertise (COE’s). Aligning it to a common culture and expectation of inclusive behaviour, and support People & Culture Partners being the face of it to their functions.

The fun part of this role; you will be part of a team who are dedicated to alignment and enablement of our inclusive culture and connection to our mission.

This role will report to the People & Culture Director.

What you can bring to the team will be deep subject matter expertise in all aspects of people consulting to advise and support colleagues and business leaders. This exciting new role covers two main clients groups: products and operations. We are looking for a candidate who is motivated and energised to shape the future of our organisation

Skills:

• Strong business acumen for understanding business priorities, opportunities and challenges, and external influencing factors.
• Ability to understand and analyse data to influence key decision making.
• Experience evolving a talent strategy, through diagnostic thinking, needs analyses and data analysis, managing expectations, building collaborative relationships, and challenging constructively with a point of view.
• Experience building talent strategies, including high potential identification and acceleration, assessment, succession planning, career development planning and talent movement.
• Change management skills to help the business plan and lead change effectively by using consulting skills and providing relevant change frameworks and tools.
• Strong project management skills to ensure completion and implementation of projects or programs on time and within budget.
• Strong coaching skills and influencing skills.
• Ability to recognise where senior leaders need challenged and be comfortable to challenge the status quo, engrained cultures and behaviours.
• Ability to problem solve effectively, using data and other means to present business cases to a broad client group.
• Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment legislation and its application, particularly around TUPE regulations.
• Comfortable working in a matrix environment.

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