Executive Leader, People, Culture & Traded Services

Kirklees Metropolitan Council; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kirklees Council is seeking an exceptional leader to join our Corporate Leadership Team as Service Director - People, Culture & Traded Services. This newly configured role places strategic people leadership at the heart of the organisation, while providing leadership across a diverse portfolio that supports our communities and the borough's future success.

You will shape a modern, high-performing workforce, overseeing culture, venues, tourism and traded services, ensuring financial

Qualifications

• Senior leader with a track record of leading organisational change.
• Strong strategic HR expertise with credibility to operate across a broad corporate portfolio.
• Experience in local government or the wider public sector preferred.
• Politically aware, commercially astute and able to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of a modern, high‑performing workforce.
• Oversee culture, venues, tourism, markets, bereavement services and traded services.
• Ensure services remain financially sustainable, customer‑focused and clear about their future purpose and direction.
• Collaborate with Heads of Service to drive workforce transformation, organisational design and terms and conditions reform.

Job description

Kirklees Council is seeking an exceptional leader to join our Corporate Leadership Team as Service Director - People, Culture & Traded Services. This newly configured role places strategic people leadership at the heart of the organisation, while providing leadership across a diverse portfolio that supports our communities and the borough's future success.

You will shape a modern, high-performing workforce, overseeing culture, venues, tourism and traded services, ensuring financial