Head of HR

Location: Leeds, United Kingdom; hybrid, with virtual work and in-person responsibilities at an assigned hirify.global office for a minimum of two days per week.

Company

hirify.global is a global business focused on workforce development, customer impact, and technology-enabled products.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate HR activities across the UK and Europe and manage the regional HR team across business partnering, employee relations, benefits, and employee experience.
• Oversee annual performance, compensation, promotion, talent, and succession-planning cycles.
• Partner with business leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, organisational change, transformation, and integration.
• Oversee complex employee relations, employment law, regulatory, audit, policy, and people-risk matters.
• Manage immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, contingent-worker governance, and regional benefits and wellbeing programmes.
• Coordinate global HR programmes, service relationships, projects, budgets, risks, dependencies, governance forums, and Quarterly Business Reviews.

Requirements

• Significant HR generalist experience in an international environment, coordinating HR activity across multiple countries and stakeholder groups.
• Broad expertise in business partnering, employee relations, talent management, benefits, organisational change, and employee experience.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, regulatory, audit, and people-risk matters.
• Experience working with HR Centres of Excellence, People Services, and shared-service delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, organisational, programme, and project-management skills.
• Knowledge of UK employment law and the legal, regulatory, and operational considerations affecting HR delivery.
• Experience overseeing immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Ability to manage budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, multiple workstreams, and annual HR processes.
• Ability to use governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews to monitor service performance, escalate issues, and drive continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience working in a matrixed and regulated organisation.
• Knowledge of or experience supporting employment matters across European jurisdictions.
• CIPD or an equivalent professional qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid working with flexibility to discuss part-time or other flexible arrangements.
• 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service.
• Global paid wellness days, a birthday day off, contributory pension, employee stock purchase plan, and private healthcare.
• Physical, mental, and financial wellbeing programmes, diversity forums, and communities.
• Virtual recruitment processes are standard; reasonable adjustments are available on request.
• Unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies are not accepted; approved agencies may be contacted by the talent team.

Hiring process

• Most interviews take place virtually by phone or video; the recruiter will advise if an in-person interview is required.
• Contact ukrecruitment@hirify.global.com to request reasonable adjustments for the recruitment or interview process.