# HR Director, UK & Ireland **Company**: IQVIA **Location**: Reading, Berkshire, Berkshire **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IQVIA/job/Reading-Berkshire-United-Kingdom/HR-Director--UK---Ireland_R1578851?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/hr-director-uk-and-ireland-7f5be564-e81/ ## Description The HR Director, UK & Ireland is the senior HR leader for a complex market of more than 6,000 employees, responsible for leading and developing an HR organization of approximately 25 professionals and ensuring high-quality, commercially relevant HR support across the business. At the heart of the role is the leadership, engagement and development of the UK&I HR team. The successful candidate will create a strong sense of direction and purpose, build a highly engaged and collaborative team, develop HR talent and capabilities, and foster a culture of accountability, trust and high performance. Operating in a large and highly matrixed environment, the role will translate business and HR priorities into a clear UK&I people agenda, mobilize the HR organization around shared priorities and ensure strong execution across organizational effectiveness, talent, Employee Relations, transformation and significant business change. **Key Responsibilities** **People Leadership & HR Capability** - Lead, engage, coach and develop the UK&I HR team, creating a strong sense of purpose, direction and collective accountability. - Build a highly engaged, collaborative and high-performing HR organization where people feel empowered to take ownership and deliver at their best. - Set clear expectations and raise standards of leadership, business acumen, execution and impact across the HR team. - Build strong succession and talent pipelines, actively developing future HR leaders and creating meaningful career and development opportunities. - Foster an environment of trust, openness and constructive challenge, encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing across the team and broader HR organization. - Make effective and timely talent decisions, addressing capability and performance issues where required. **HR Function & Business Leadership** - Translate business and HR priorities into a clear UK&I HR agenda and mobilize the HR organization around the priorities with the greatest business impact. - Ensure consistent, high-quality and commercially relevant HR support across a diverse and complex organization. - Anticipate emerging organizational and people challenges and ensure HR capabilities and resources evolve accordingly. - Drive simplification, operational effectiveness and continuous improvement across HR processes and ways of working. - Create alignment across HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence and global HR teams to deliver an integrated and effective people agenda. - Use business and people insights to inform priorities, decisions and resource allocation. **Employee Relations Leadership** - Provide senior leadership and sound judgement on complex and high-risk Employee Relations matters across UK&I. - Own and further develop the UK&I ER model, strengthening governance, capabilities and ways of working to support the scale and complexity of the organization. - Lead and advise on significant restructurings, consultations, workforce changes and other sensitive employee matters. - Develop a more proactive and preventative approach to ER, using trends and insights to strengthen HR and manager capability and address systemic issues. **Organization, Talent & Change** - Lead and support significant organizational change, restructuring, workforce transformation and integration activities across UK&I. - Partner with leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, succession and leadership effectiveness. - Ensure complex programs are structured effectively, with clear ownership, appropriate resources and active management of risks and interdependencies. - Support M&A and integration activity, ensuring effective delivery of people-related priorities. **Senior Stakeholder Leadership** - Build trusted relationships with senior business and HR leaders, acting as a credible adviser and constructive challenger. - Coach senior stakeholders through complex organizational, leadership and people issues. - Navigate differing stakeholder perspectives and create alignment around practical solutions and a clear path forward. - Exercise sound judgement in balancing local business requirements with global priorities and operating models. - Communicate complex issues with clarity, providing context, insight and evidence-based recommendations. **Experience & Capabilities** - Significant HR leadership experience in a large, complex and highly matrixed organization. - Proven track record of building, engaging and developing sizeable, high-performing HR teams. - Demonstrated ability to set direction, create accountability, develop talent and mobilize teams through complexity and change. - Strong business acumen and the ability to translate business priorities into pragmatic HR strategies and actions. - Strong Employee Relations leadership experience, including complex cases, restructurings, consultations, workforce change and high-risk employee matters. - Experience strengthening ER operating models, governance and capability, alongside hands-on credibility in complex ER situations. - Strong organizational effectiveness, organizational design, transformation and change experience. - Excellent senior stakeholder management, influencing, coaching and conflict resolution skills. - Sound judgement and confidence in making difficult people and organizational decisions. - Demonstrated ability to use data and insight to inform decisions and improve organizational outcomes. - Experience operating across local and global structures; M&A and/or significant integration experience would be valuable. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - HR leadership - Business acumen - Employee Relations - Organizational design - Transformation and change - Stakeholder management - Influencing - Coaching - Conflict resolution - Data analysis --- Source: [Apply at iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IQVIA/job/Reading-Berkshire-United-Kingdom/HR-Director--UK---Ireland_R1578851?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)