Strategic HR Director | Europe Travel | Exeter

Cathedral Appointments Ltd; Exeter; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £90k

Permanent role

Board-level influence

European travel

Job summary

Cathedral Appointments Ltd in Exeter is recruiting an HR Director for a globally operating organisation. The role blends strategic people leadership with practical HR execution, reporting to the CEO and the Executive Leadership Team, and will shape capability, leadership effectiveness and growth.

Based in Exeter with regular travel across Europe, you will manage an Exeter-based HR Manager and a team in Europe, directing organisational design, talent management and reward across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree requirement or equivalent experience.
• Significant HR leadership experience in senior roles.
• Experience in government contracting or similarly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success in organisational design and large-scale change initiatives.
• Strong commercial acumen aligning people strategy to business performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as commercial partner and trusted advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, shaping strategy through people, and providing commercially focused HR advice that supports business performance and decision-making.
• Develop, own and implement the organisation's People Strategy, ensuring workforce capability, succession, culture and organisational effectiveness directly support business objectives.
• Define and lead the organisation's leadership, learning and development strategy, and implement an enterprise talent and succession strategy to build sustainable leadership pipelines and future organisational capability.
• Define and implement the organisation's reward strategy, including salary structures, market benchmarking and pay review processes, and lead the organisation's recruitment and talent acquisition strategy.
• Provide line management to an Exeter-based HR Manager and a team based in Europe, ensuring consistent HR delivery and standards across locations.
• Provide strategic oversight of employee relations and workforce risk, including restructures, organisational change and policy exceptions, ensuring commercially balanced outcomes.
• Oversee the alignment of HR programmes, policies, systems and governance frameworks across business units and jurisdictions, ensuring full compliance with employment legislation and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Strategic HR leadership

Executive partnering

Change management

Talent management

Leadership development

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Job description

Cathedral Appointments Ltd in Exeter is recruiting an HR Director for a globally operating organisation. The role blends strategic people leadership with practical HR execution, reporting to the CEO and the Executive Leadership Team, and will shape capability, leadership effectiveness and growth.

Based in Exeter with regular travel across Europe, you will manage an Exeter-based HR Manager and a team in Europe, directing organisational design, talent management and reward across jurisdictions.