Head of HR

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced HR leader with a strong background in business partnering to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our people strategy within the Consulting business unit. This is a high‑impact position focused on enabling business growth, strengthening organisational capability, and ensuring company-wide initiatives are embedded effectively.

You’ll act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, lead critical strategic people focused programmes, and deputise for the People Director when required.

In this senior leadership role, you will partner closely with the Consulting leadership team to deliver a high‑quality, commercially focused HR service. You’ll contribute to the development and oversee execution of the annual People Plan, drive engagement and wellbeing initiatives, and support workforce planning to support future growth.

You will also guide organisational change, champion best practice, and ensure our people processes, systems and frameworks are aligned, efficient and future‑ready.

Strategic Partnership & Leadership

• Partner with the Chief Operations Director to ensure effective HR reporting, metrics and processes.
• Work with the International Growth Lead to support people-related activity in new geographies, collaborating closely with Group HR.
• Lead the delivery of the annual People Plan, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and leveraging specialist expertise.
• Input into key strategic bids as required and coordinate required people input into all bidding activity. Identify opportunities for improvement/initiatives to support work winning aims.
• Depose for the People Director as required.

People Strategy, Culture & Engagement

• Lead the EDI and Wellbeing strategy for the Business Unit and ensure alignment with Amey wide priorities.
• Drive an engagement strategy with regular monitoring and action planning.
• Refine and embed clear career paths and reward pathways across the business.
• Embed senior succession planning and ensure robust talent identification processes in collaboration with L&D.

Organisational Development & Change

• Deliver required organisational change activity working in collaboration with the People Partners
• Coach and mentor both Senior Leaders and more junior members of the HR team

Workforce Planning & Recruitment

• Collaborate with the recruitment lead to develop a coherent workforce plan focused on growth and future skills.
• Work in collaboration with the L&D team and People Partners to design and deliver required internal activity to develop future skills.
• Support business leaders in identifying future workforce requirements for proactive planning and targeted recruitment.

Operational HR Excellence

• Lead mobilisation of any new Success Factors modules within the BU.
• Provide advice on complex ER cases.
• Provide business partner support for the functional teams in the BU.
• Contribute to group wide HR projects as required.

• Significant experience as a senior HR leader with a robust background in business partnering in a complex, fast‑paced environment. Ideally will have worked within a global business delivering HR solutions internationally.
• A strong commercial mindset with the ability to deliver value‑adding HR solutions aligned to business needs.
• Proven capability in organisational development, change and workforce planning.
• Expertise in succession planning, career pathways, and capability development.
• Experience leading engagement, wellbeing, EDI and talent initiatives at scale.
• Confidence in coaching senior leaders and influencing at senior level.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to drive delivery across multiple priorities.
• Ability to build strong internal and external networks and bring best practice into the organisation.
• A proactive, pragmatic solutions‑focused approach with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Resilient and determined.

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