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Portfolio People Director

Salary range 60,000 - 120,000
Job Type Contract
Posted: 27/09/2021
Essential Skills:
  • Strategic HR

Are you a highly successful People Director looking for an alternative to corporate life? Are you looking for an interesting and challenging role that can fit around other commitments/interests?  Are you seeking a career that gives you fulfilment and harmony with a work-life balance?

Are you a strategically astute People Director, able to work with SME businesses and like to work with entrepreneurial leaders? Have you ever considered working as a portfolio HR professional and having more control over your working life?  Are you a people person with the ability to present compelling strategic HR solutions? Do you believe people are the hub of success?

Do you want to work with a fast growing, fun-loving and ambitious business where our values are key to everything we do?

This unique opportunity will appeal to a successful high calibre individual seeking a rewarding challenge incorporating a flexible work-life balance and good earnings potential. You determine how many days you want to work with the earnings potential that matches it. You will have the autonomy and freedom to achieve results with all the marketing and operational support expected from a thriving national company.

Main Responsibilities: 

  • Lead the delivery of HR solutions to our client businesses assigned to youWork with the Regional Director and support the process for attracting and gaining new clients
  • Provide a joined-up approach to resourcing, reward, employee relations, learning and development and take ownership for solutions
  • Provide leadership and expertise on all HR matters
  • Full accountability for managing your assigned clients and working in partnership with the whole team to ensure a first class HR service is provided

Skills & Experience 

  • Proven senior level HR experience, either at Director or Head of level
  • Ideally be CIPD qualified or equivalent
  • A strong “people person” with a natural ability to inspire teams and nurture and build relationships
  • Credible and able to “connect” with and influence SME sector Business Owners
  • Ability to provide strategic options by understanding client HR needs and proposing appropriate solutions
  • Energetic, motivated, able to makes things happen
  • Organised and dependable
  • Entrepreneurial non-corporate individual seeking the freedom to work autonomously

Who you are/what we are looking for:

  • Share our values. We believe that successful businesses not only need outstanding commercial skills but require a strong and aligned culture in which to thrive. We are proud of our culture. Our four core values "win/win, always passionate, still learning and be pragmatic" provide the foundation on which the culture is built. We seek individuals who are aligned with our culture and values.
  • Demonstrate that you have an excellent empathy towards owner managers in the mid-tier marketplace in which we operate. Have strong leadership and relationship-building skills and an entrepreneurial approach with the ability to support and contribute to a team of high-level People Directors.
  • Believe in “Team”.  We require individuals who can put all their energies into being part of our team and to fully embrace all aspects of working as part of our local and national teams.
  • A great listener, and even better at asking great questions, you’ll wake up every day and think “how do I add value and do something special for my clients today?”

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced business professional or consultant with the ability to deliver professional HR services to the SME sector.  Apply now to learn more about working with this leading company, and realise your dream of working for yourself in a remuneration structure that directly rewards your efforts.


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