Group HR Director - Global Manufacturing

Group HR Director – Global Manufacturing Salary: GBP135 153k + 25% Bonus + Executive Benefits Location: Hybrid / South London with International Travel

We are recruiting a Group HR Director on behalf of a highly successful international manufacturing and industrial business operating across the UK, Europe, USA and Asia.

This is a senior, hands–on Group HR leadership role with responsibility for developing and embedding the people infrastructure required to support continued international growth, organisational development and operational transformation across a complex global organisation.

Reporting directly to the Group CEO, the role will play a key part in strengthening organisational capability, improving consistency and execution across international operations, and supporting the business through a significant period of growth and change.

This role will particularly suit commercially grounded HR leaders with experience operating within international manufacturing, engineering, industrial, chemicals, process manufacturing or similarly complex operational environments.

The role:
• Lead the development and implementation of scalable HR frameworks across international operations
• Build and standardise global HR policies, processes and organisational structures
• Design and implement job architecture, grading and reward frameworks
• Lead organisation design and workforce planning activity across multiple regions
• Develop scalable recruitment, talent and succession frameworks
• Embed performance management processes that drive accountability and organisational effectiveness
• Support senior stakeholders through organisational change, restructuring and transformation activity
• Strengthen HR systems, people data capability and reporting infrastructure
• Support and influence senior leadership teams across the UK, Europe, USA and Asia
• Help build a high–performance culture aligned to business growth objectives

Candidate requirements:
• Proven experience operating in a senior HR leadership role within an international manufacturing, industrial or engineering environment
• Strong experience supporting complex, multi–site and international operations
• Demonstrated experience building scalable HR infrastructure and organisational frameworks
• Strong organisational design, workforce planning, reward and performance management experience
• Experience leading organisational change, restructuring and transformation programmes
• Commercially minded with the ability to align people strategy to operational and business performance
• Comfortable operating within matrix and internationally distributed organisations
• Strong stakeholder management and executive–level influencing capability
• Pragmatic, resilient and hands–on leadership style with the ability to operate at pace
• Experience supporting operations across Asia would be highly advantageous

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been looking for then please apply by attaching your CV.

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