3,841 People Director jobs in the United Kingdom

HR Director

Are you ready to shape and lead a people strategy that not only supports growth but also transforms culture across a dynamic, entrepreneurial group?

Can you balance board-level influence with a hands-on, pragmatic approach that keeps people at the heart of commercial success?

Do you have the vision, resilience, and leadership to integrate diverse teams and inspire a high-performance culture in a business at a pivotal stage of its journey?

MacGregor Black are looking for a HR Director for a global food and beverage manufacturing business . This is a permanent, London based role with some nation wide travel.

The Group HR Director will partner closely with the CEO and senior leadership team to shape and embed a culture of excellence, innovation, and engagement across a growing organisation. This leader will be responsible for building and guiding a confident, solutions-driven HR team, ensuring alignment between people strategies and the business’s commercial ambitions.

A key focus of the role will be leading integration initiatives across different business units, harmonising people processes, organisational structures, and cultural alignment to ensure consistency and operational efficiency.

This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished HR leader to join a fast-growing, entrepreneurial organisation at a pivotal stage in its journey, with scope to make a significant and lasting impact on its people and culture agenda.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive HR strategy aligned with business objectives and growth ambitions.
• Drive a high-performance culture that reflects company values and encourages innovation, collaboration, and engagement.
• Lead cultural transformation and change management initiatives to support business development and employee experience.
• Provide regular, data-driven reporting on people-related metrics including workforce planning, talent development, and organisational health.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team, offering insights and recommendations to support business objectives.
• Ensure all HR operations and policies comply with employment law and industry standards.
• Oversee HR systems and processes to improve efficiency and enable data-led decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate people-related risks to protect the business and ensure compliance.
• Design and implement recruitment strategies to attract and retain exceptional talent.
• Enhance employer branding to position the organisation as an employer of choice.
• Oversee workforce planning and integration projects to ensure seamless alignment of people strategies across the group.
• Develop and implement training and leadership development programmes.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, ensuring employees have access to professional growth opportunities.
• Lead the design of competitive compensation and benefits frameworks.
• Embed effective performance management processes that encourage accountability, continuous improvement, and recognition.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience in senior HR leadership roles, ideally within growth-focused or entrepreneurial organisations.
• Strong track record of scaling HR functions and adapting strategies to evolving business needs.
• Commercially astute with the ability to balance strategic objectives with pragmatic, people-focused solutions.
• Experienced in driving organisational change and building high-performance cultures.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire, develop, and hold teams accountable.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, with the credibility to operate at board level.
• Trusted advisor with high integrity, discretion, and ethical standards.
• Experience in founder-led or family-owned businesses is advantageous.

Salary: £150k+ plus benefits

For more information, please contact Alice Redmond .

HR Director – London Market Insurance Company

A leading London Market Insurance Company is seeking an experienced HR Director to play a central role in driving the people agenda across a dynamic and ambitious business. Reporting to the CPO , this role offers exclusive exposure to the executive team and requires strong stakeholder management skills to influence and deliver in a complex, fast-paced environment.

It is a prerequisite that the successful candidate comes from ideally the London Insurance Market, if not traditional Financial Services background. We will not be able to consider your profile if not.

The Role

As HR Director, you will:

• Support the delivery of a people strategy that aligns with the business’s growth and evolving needs.
• Oversee employee relations, recruitment, learning & development, and HR policy , ensuring plans are commercially relevant and aligned with business goals.
• Partner with senior leaders to provide insights and recommendations on workforce planning, people metrics and employee engagement.
• Navigate a demanding and highly commercial stakeholder group , balancing challenge with influence to achieve the best outcomes for the business and its people.
• Play an active role in supporting M&A activity, integration and change programmes.
• Lead and develop HR teams across business partnering, recruitment, L&D and operations, fostering a high-performance culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and implement people initiatives that attract, retain and engage talent.
• Deliver reward and recognition programmes that drive performance.
• Provide expert advice on employee relations, ensuring issues are resolved effectively.
• Support leadership with investment hiring and successful onboarding.
• Contribute to learning and development strategies that build long-term capability.
• Ensure HR practices meet governance, compliance and regulatory requirements, including FCA standards.

About You

We are looking for a resilient and commercially focused HR professional with:

• Broad HR leadership experience within financial services, ideally in insurance and the Lloyd’s Market .
• Strong knowledge of reward, talent management and employee relations.
• Experience supporting transformation, integration or change programmes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills , with the ability to operate confidently in a challenging, fast-moving, and commercially demanding environment.
• A pragmatic and solutions-focused approach, able to balance business priorities with people needs.
• Proven ability to motivate, develop and engage teams.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to present people data and insights effectively.

This is an excellent opportunity for a HR Director to step into a high-impact role within a market-leading London Lloyd’s Insurance Company , working closely with senior stakeholders to shape the future people strategy of a dynamic business.

People Director – Multi-Site Hospitality Business – London – Up to £135,000

We are working with a well-established and highly regarded multi-site hospitality business that is seeking to appoint a People Director to lead its people strategy across the UK.

This is a pivotal leadership role for someone with a strong track record in driving people-focused change, scaling teams, and building exceptional cultures in fast-paced, customer-centric environments.

The ideal candidate will combine strategic thinking with a hands-on, pragmatic approach, and bring a deep understanding of how to attract, retain, and develop top talent in hospitality.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the overall people strategy, ensuring alignment with the business’s commercial goals and brand values
• Oversee all aspects of HR, including talent acquisition, L&D, employee relations, engagement, DE&I, reward, and organisational design
• Act as a strategic partner to the executive team, providing insight, challenge, and direction on all people matters
• Drive initiatives that enhance employee engagement, retention, and performance across all sites
• Lead and develop a high-performing people team, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation
• Ensure compliance with employment law and industry best practice while supporting a progressive and inclusive working environment

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in a senior HR or People Director role within a multi-site hospitality, leisure, or retail environment
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with experience working at board or exec level
• A balance of strategic thinking and operational delivery – able to shape policy while staying close to the teams
• Commercial acumen and experience aligning people strategies with business growth and transformation
• Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management abilities

HR Director

Are you ready to shape and lead a people strategy that not only supports growth but also transforms culture across a dynamic, entrepreneurial group?

Can you balance board-level influence with a hands-on, pragmatic approach that keeps people at the heart of commercial success?

Do you have the vision, resilience, and leadership to integrate diverse teams and inspire a high-performance culture in a business at a pivotal stage of its journey?

MacGregor Black are looking for a HR Director for a global food and beverage manufacturing business . This is a permanent, London based role with some nation wide travel.

The Group HR Director will partner closely with the CEO and senior leadership team to shape and embed a culture of excellence, innovation, and engagement across a growing organisation. This leader will be responsible for building and guiding a confident, solutions-driven HR team, ensuring alignment between people strategies and the business’s commercial ambitions.

A key focus of the role will be leading integration initiatives across different business units, harmonising people processes, organisational structures, and cultural alignment to ensure consistency and operational efficiency.

This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished HR leader to join a fast-growing, entrepreneurial organisation at a pivotal stage in its journey, with scope to make a significant and lasting impact on its people and culture agenda.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive HR strategy aligned with business objectives and growth ambitions.
• Drive a high-performance culture that reflects company values and encourages innovation, collaboration, and engagement.
• Lead cultural transformation and change management initiatives to support business development and employee experience.
• Provide regular, data-driven reporting on people-related metrics including workforce planning, talent development, and organisational health.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team, offering insights and recommendations to support business objectives.
• Ensure all HR operations and policies comply with employment law and industry standards.
• Oversee HR systems and processes to improve efficiency and enable data-led decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate people-related risks to protect the business and ensure compliance.
• Design and implement recruitment strategies to attract and retain exceptional talent.
• Enhance employer branding to position the organisation as an employer of choice.
• Oversee workforce planning and integration projects to ensure seamless alignment of people strategies across the group.
• Develop and implement training and leadership development programmes.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, ensuring employees have access to professional growth opportunities.
• Lead the design of competitive compensation and benefits frameworks.
• Embed effective performance management processes that encourage accountability, continuous improvement, and recognition.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience in senior HR leadership roles, ideally within growth-focused or entrepreneurial organisations.
• Strong track record of scaling HR functions and adapting strategies to evolving business needs.
• Commercially astute with the ability to balance strategic objectives with pragmatic, people-focused solutions.
• Experienced in driving organisational change and building high-performance cultures.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire, develop, and hold teams accountable.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, with the credibility to operate at board level.
• Trusted advisor with high integrity, discretion, and ethical standards.
• Experience in founder-led or family-owned businesses is advantageous.

Salary: £150k+ plus benefits

For more information, please contact Alice Redmond .

People Director – Multi-Site Hospitality Business – London – Up to £135,000

We are working with a well-established and highly regarded multi-site hospitality business that is seeking to appoint a People Director to lead its people strategy across the UK.

This is a pivotal leadership role for someone with a strong track record in driving people-focused change, scaling teams, and building exceptional cultures in fast-paced, customer-centric environments.

The ideal candidate will combine strategic thinking with a hands-on, pragmatic approach, and bring a deep understanding of how to attract, retain, and develop top talent in hospitality.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the overall people strategy, ensuring alignment with the business’s commercial goals and brand values
• Oversee all aspects of HR, including talent acquisition, L&D, employee relations, engagement, DE&I, reward, and organisational design
• Act as a strategic partner to the executive team, providing insight, challenge, and direction on all people matters
• Drive initiatives that enhance employee engagement, retention, and performance across all sites
• Lead and develop a high-performing people team, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation
• Ensure compliance with employment law and industry best practice while supporting a progressive and inclusive working environment

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in a senior HR or People Director role within a multi-site hospitality, leisure, or retail environment
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with experience working at board or exec level
• A balance of strategic thinking and operational delivery – able to shape policy while staying close to the teams
• Commercial acumen and experience aligning people strategies with business growth and transformation
• Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management abilities

HR Director – London Market Insurance Company

A leading London Market Insurance Company is seeking an experienced HR Director to play a central role in driving the people agenda across a dynamic and ambitious business. Reporting to the CPO , this role offers exclusive exposure to the executive team and requires strong stakeholder management skills to influence and deliver in a complex, fast-paced environment.

It is a prerequisite that the successful candidate comes from ideally the London Insurance Market, if not traditional Financial Services background. We will not be able to consider your profile if not.

The Role

As HR Director, you will:

• Support the delivery of a people strategy that aligns with the business’s growth and evolving needs.
• Oversee employee relations, recruitment, learning & development, and HR policy , ensuring plans are commercially relevant and aligned with business goals.
• Partner with senior leaders to provide insights and recommendations on workforce planning, people metrics and employee engagement.
• Navigate a demanding and highly commercial stakeholder group , balancing challenge with influence to achieve the best outcomes for the business and its people.
• Play an active role in supporting M&A activity, integration and change programmes.
• Lead and develop HR teams across business partnering, recruitment, L&D and operations, fostering a high-performance culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and implement people initiatives that attract, retain and engage talent.
• Deliver reward and recognition programmes that drive performance.
• Provide expert advice on employee relations, ensuring issues are resolved effectively.
• Support leadership with investment hiring and successful onboarding.
• Contribute to learning and development strategies that build long-term capability.
• Ensure HR practices meet governance, compliance and regulatory requirements, including FCA standards.

About You

We are looking for a resilient and commercially focused HR professional with:

• Broad HR leadership experience within financial services, ideally in insurance and the Lloyd’s Market .
• Strong knowledge of reward, talent management and employee relations.
• Experience supporting transformation, integration or change programmes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills , with the ability to operate confidently in a challenging, fast-moving, and commercially demanding environment.
• A pragmatic and solutions-focused approach, able to balance business priorities with people needs.
• Proven ability to motivate, develop and engage teams.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to present people data and insights effectively.

This is an excellent opportunity for a HR Director to step into a high-impact role within a market-leading London Lloyd’s Insurance Company , working closely with senior stakeholders to shape the future people strategy of a dynamic business.

Our Client is a leading Accounting and Advisory firm based in Douglas and are seeking a Director (UK Private Client Tax) to join their expanding team at a time of significant growth.

As Director in the UK Private Client Tax team, you will be working with High Net Worth Individuals and business owners across UK and Ireland to address their various UK tax issues. You will demonstrate sufficient technical knowledge to develop solutions to complex technical issues and manage a team to deliver to clients on a day to day basis.

Main responsibilities:

• Manage client assignments that are sizable in both scope and scale by providing intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively and present solutions to increasingly complex technical issues
• Proactively seek out business development opportunities
• Participate fully in new client pitch situations
• Advise on relevant IHT planning steps that clients should consider including the use of UK Trusts, capturing Business Property Relief and corporate reorganisations
• Write high quality tax reports, professionally presented documents, requiring minimal input from directors or partners
• Ensure bills are raised and costs are collected on a timely basis and manage work in progress to ensure recoverability targets can be met
• Demonstrate sound technical knowledge to supervise relevant areas of work and will be seen as a reference point on particular technical issues
• Work effectively with all members of the team, providing coaching and mentoring to build the confidence and respect of peers and subordinates
• Demonstrate a clear appetite for self-development through the appraisal and personal development plan processes, reviewing work afterward for learning points

The ideal candidate for the role of Director (UK Private Client Tax) will be:

• ACA/ACCA and/or CTA qualified
• Minimum 7 years' post qualified experience of working in a tax department of a firm which provides tax advisory services
• Strong technical knowledge and proven ability to identify opportunities for clients
• Experience of dealing with the "Wealthy" team (formerly the High Net Worth Unit) of HM Revenue and Customs
• Approachable and respected member of the team who takes a proactive interest in the team's performance and wellbeing
• Capable of working on your own initiative while taking responsibility and ownership for wider team issues
• Able to build trusted relationships with clients and the team
• Managerial skills with the ability to manage compliance process and compliance staff
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential together with proven people development skills to support the development of the more junior staff
• Ambitious and desire to pursue a career in practice

Job Title: Planning Director
Location: Southampton
Multidisciplinary Private Planning Practice
 
Carrington West are pleased to be working with a private planning practice renowned for its innovative approach, seamlessly integrating urban design, architecture, and planning to shape the future of our built environment. Our multidisciplinary client thrives on creativity, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainable development, delivering transformative projects that enhance communities across the UK.
 
They seek an experienced and visionary Planning Director to lead a dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of planning policies and practices, and a proven track record in managing complex planning projects. You will play a pivotal role in driving our projects from conception through to completion, ensuring they meet high standards.
 
Key Responsibilities:
·Provide strategic leadership and direction to the planning team.
·Oversee the development and delivery of planning applications, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and policies.
·Collaborate with urban designers, architects, and other stakeholders to develop innovative and sustainable planning solutions.
·Engage with clients, local authorities, and community groups to foster strong relationships and secure project approvals.
·Mentor and develop junior planners, promoting a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
·Stay abreast of industry trends, legislation, and best practices to ensure our practice remains at the forefront of the industry.
·Represent the practice at public meetings, planning committees, and other forums.
 
Qualifications and Experience:
·Degree in Town Planning, Urban Planning, or a related field.
·Chartered Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).
·Extensive experience in a senior planning role, ideally within a multidisciplinary environment.
·Demonstrable success in managing large-scale and complex planning projects.
·Strong leadership and team management skills.
·Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement abilities.
·In-depth knowledge of UK planning legislation, policies, and procedures.
 
What We Offer:
·Competitive salary and benefits package.
·Opportunity to lead and shape high-profile projects.
·Collaborative and supportive work environment.
·Continuous professional development and career progression opportunities.
·Flexible working arrangements.
The salary is negotiable and can be discussed in interview or upon application.
 
This role will move quickly and is unique opportunity so please get in touch as soon as possible. By sending in your CV, you acknowledge you are happy for us to put you forward for the role in you have applied for. If you are keen to see a full job description, please call or attach a cover letter to your application.
 
To avoid missing out please apply today with a copy of your CV then call Tullula Farrell on (phone number removed).
 
If you are a Town Planner who is interested in job opportunities, but this role is not of interest, please still apply then we can consider you for other positions.
 
Job Reference Number: 51665
 

Our Client is a leading Accounting and Advisory firm based in Douglas and are seeking a Director (UK Private Client Tax) to join their expanding team at a time of significant growth.

As Director in the UK Private Client Tax team, you will be working with High Net Worth Individuals and business owners across UK and Ireland to address their various UK tax issues. You will demonstrate sufficient technical knowledge to develop solutions to complex technical issues and manage a team to deliver to clients on a day to day basis.

Main responsibilities:

• Manage client assignments that are sizable in both scope and scale by providing intelligent and creative solutions to client tax issues both reactively and proactively and present solutions to increasingly complex technical issues
• Proactively seek out business development opportunities
• Participate fully in new client pitch situations
• Advise on relevant IHT planning steps that clients should consider including the use of UK Trusts, capturing Business Property Relief and corporate reorganisations
• Write high quality tax reports, professionally presented documents, requiring minimal input from directors or partners
• Ensure bills are raised and costs are collected on a timely basis and manage work in progress to ensure recoverability targets can be met
• Demonstrate sound technical knowledge to supervise relevant areas of work and will be seen as a reference point on particular technical issues
• Work effectively with all members of the team, providing coaching and mentoring to build the confidence and respect of peers and subordinates
• Demonstrate a clear appetite for self-development through the appraisal and personal development plan processes, reviewing work afterward for learning points

The ideal candidate for the role of Director (UK Private Client Tax) will be:

• ACA/ACCA and/or CTA qualified
• Minimum 7 years' post qualified experience of working in a tax department of a firm which provides tax advisory services
• Strong technical knowledge and proven ability to identify opportunities for clients
• Experience of dealing with the "Wealthy" team (formerly the High Net Worth Unit) of HM Revenue and Customs
• Approachable and respected member of the team who takes a proactive interest in the team's performance and wellbeing
• Capable of working on your own initiative while taking responsibility and ownership for wider team issues
• Able to build trusted relationships with clients and the team
• Managerial skills with the ability to manage compliance process and compliance staff
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential together with proven people development skills to support the development of the more junior staff
• Ambitious and desire to pursue a career in practice