HR Director / Director of People & Culture

I am currently recruiting for an experienced HR Director / Director of People & Culture to join my client based in the Midlands in a senior executive leadership role, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

This is an opportunity for a strategic, commercially aware and values-led people professional to shape organisational culture, strengthen workforce capability and lead a broad People function across a multi-site operational environment.

The Role

You will lead the development and delivery of my clients people strategy, ensuring that recruitment, learning and development, HR operations and payroll work together to support organisational growth and long-term success.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the People & Culture strategy and embedding organisational values throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Overseeing recruitment, talent acquisition, onboarding and workforce planning.
• Developing learning and development strategies, leadership programmes and career pathways.
• Leading HR operations, payroll oversight, systems and process improvement.
• Providing senior guidance on complex employee relations matters and employment law compliance.
• Driving employee engagement, inclusion, wellbeing, performance and retention.
• Using people analytics and workforce data to inform strategic decision-making.
• Leading and developing the People & Culture team.
• Working collaboratively with Operations, Finance, Quality and Commercial teams.
• Representing the People function at Executive and Board level.