People Director

Tate Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Tate Recruitment is recruiting for a People Director to lead the next phase of workforce, talent and employee experience strategy for a large multi-site organisation in the North West. The role requires reshaping traditional HR with a strong focus on workforce capability and leadership development.

Key duties include workforce planning, rostering strategy, talent acquisition, succession planning, and employer branding across a significant national workforce, with emphasis on creating a Centre of

Qualifications

• Lead the next phase of the workforce, talent and employee experience strategy.
• Newly reshaped role with a mandate far broader than traditional HR.
• Experience shaping workforce capability across a large, dispersed operation.

Responsibilities

• Own workforce planning, rostering strategy, talent acquisition and leadership development.
• Drive succession planning, employee engagement and employer brand for a national workforce.
• Create and lead a Workforce Planning and Rostering Centre of Excellence to bring consistency and long-term planning capability.

Job description

North West Ideally | Hybrid £100,000 + Benefits

A large, complex multi-site organisation is seeking a People Director to lead the next phase of its workforce, talent and employee experience strategy.

This is a newly reshaped role with a mandate far broader than traditional HR.

The organisation has recognised that its future success will be driven by workforce capability, leadership strength and employee experience. As a result, this appointment will take ownership of workforce planning, rostering strategy, talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning, employee engagement and employer brand across a significant national workforce.

A particular focus will be the creation of a Workforce Planning and Rostering Centre of Excellence, bringing greater consistency, visibility and long-term planning capability to a complex operational environment. Working closely with executive and operational leaders, you will help ensure that workforce demand, deployment, capability and future talent pipelines are aligned to organisational priorities and growth plans.

This role would suit an experienced People Director, HR Director, Workforce Director or Talent leader who has operated within a large, dispersed and operationally intensive organisation.

Whilst healthcare experience would be valuable, we are equally interested in leaders from sectors where workforce planning, scheduling, deployment and organisational capability play a critical role in operational performance. This might include healthcare, social care, retail, transport, hospitality, logistics, outsourcing or other large-scale service environments.

The successful candidate will bring experience of building organisational capability through workforce planning, talent and leadership development rather than simply leading traditional HR operations. They will be commercially minded, highly credible with senior stakeholders and able to translate strategic ambition into practical delivery.

This is an opportunity to shape the future workforce strategy of a major organisation and create a lasting impact on how it attracts, develops and retains talent.