Head of HR

TransUnion LLC; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days leave

Wellness days & birthday off

Contributory pension

Stock Purchase Plan

Private health care

Diversity forums

Job summary

TransUnion in the UK & Europe is seeking an accomplished HR leader to coordinate business partnering, employee relations, benefits, and employee experience across the region. This hybrid role requires regular in-person presence at a TU office for at least two days weekly.

You will oversee annual HR cycles, partner with business leaders on organisational design and workforce planning, manage complex employee relations matters, and drive governance with People Services, Payroll, and Talent

Qualifications

• Significant HR generalist experience in an international environment.
• Broad HR expertise across business partnering, employee relations, benefits, and employee experience.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, regulatory, audit, and people-risk matters.
• Experience with HR Centres of Excellence, People Services, and shared-service delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate HR activities across the UK and Europe, ensuring regional priorities are delivered.
• Lead the regional HR team across HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience.
• Oversee annual HR cycles including performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession planning.
• Partner with business leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives.
• Maintain oversight of employment-law developments, policy updates, audits, and wider people-risk matters.
• Coordinate immigration, right-to-work compliance, and contingent-worker governance.
• Coordinate regional benefits, recognition, and wellbeing programmes.
• Collaborate with global HR and shared-service teams to implement enterprise programmes while meeting local requirements.

Skills

HR generalist

Stakeholder management

Cross-country coordination

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

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Team Overview

The UK & Europe HR team delivers coordinated HR support across the region, translating business and global HR priorities into clear regional plans. The multidisciplinary team covers HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, working closely with HR Centres of Excellence and shared-service teams to provide a high-quality colleague and manager experience.

This role reports into the CHRO for UK & Europe.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate HR activities across the UK and Europe, ensuring that business and global HR priorities are delivered effectively and consistently.
• Lead the regional HR team across HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and alignment.
• Oversee annual HR cycles, including performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession-planning processes.
• Partner with business leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, organisational change, and people-related transformation and integration activities.
• Maintain oversight of complex employee relations matters, employment law developments, regulatory requirements, policy updates, audits, and wider people-related risks.
• Oversee immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Coordinate regional benefits, recognition, wellbeing, and employee-experience programmes.
• Collaborate with the global HR Business Partner community, Centres of Excellence, and shared-service teams to implement enterprise programmes while meeting local legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Maintain effective service relationships with People Services, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, and other HR delivery teams, using governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor performance, elevate issues, and support continuous improvement.
• Manage regional HR projects, budgets, risks, dependencies, and governance activities while acting as a trusted HR partner to leaders and supporting the CHRO's strategic priorities.

Required Knowledge And Experiences

• Significant HR generalist experience gained within an international environment, with the ability to coordinate HR activity across multiple countries and stakeholder groups.
• Broad HR expertise spanning business partnering, employee relations, talent management, benefits, organisational change, and employee experience.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, regulatory, audit, and people-risk matters.
• Experience working with HR Centres of Excellence, People Services, and shared-service delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing regional and global priorities.

Required Technical Skills

• Knowledge of UK employment law and the legal, regulatory, and operational considerations affecting HR delivery.
• Experience overseeing immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Strong programme and project-management capabilities, including managing budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, and multiple workstreams.
• Ability to support annual HR processes covering performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession planning.
• Ability to use governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor service performance, elevate issues, and drive continuous improvement.

We're also looking for the preferred skills below.

• Experience working in a matrixed and regulated organisation.
• Knowledge of or experience supporting employment matters across European jurisdictions.
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualification or an equivalent professional qualification.

What's in it for you?

• 26 days annual leave and bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off and a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme and access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care and a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

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