Plenty of organisations say the customer comes first. Far fewer are built around it. Our client, an organisation with c.1,000 colleagues, is one of them: a values-led culture, a clear sense of why it exists, and a Chief Executive who treats employee experience as the engine behind customer experience rather than a side project. After a significant period of change, the leadership team has found its rhythm, and it now needs a new Chief People Officer to turn that momentum into sustained commercial performance.
This is a full Executive Committee role with real influence. You will be the person the Chief Executive wants in the room when strategy is being shaped and the financial plan is being delivered, working alongside a cohesive, collaborative Executive team that welcomes challenge. Your remit goes well beyond traditional HR, with a sizeable team behind you, and your decisions on talent, reward and structure will show up in the results. Communications is a strategic lever here, connecting every colleague to the customer journey and the part they play in it. With the culture still taking shape, there is ample scope for you to influence it from the front.
You will bring the outside world in, using insight, benchmarks and perspective from your career and networks to inform the Executive team and RemCo. AI will inevitably reshape how the organisation works too, and you will help the leadership turn it into a source of capability and productivity, with people, skills and ways of working evolving alongside it.
Read onOur client is a market-leading, high-growth business with a genuinely entrepreneurial culture, where pace, ownership and a strong customer focus drive success. As it continues to grow, this is an exciting opportunity for a Senior People Partner to join and make a real impact across the South West.
This is a regional, field-based role. You’ll spend around 4 days a week out at site, partnering regional and site leaders where the work happens. You’ll be a visible, trusted partner who brings pace, pragmatism and commercial thinking to everything you do, and you’ll help leaders get the best from their people in a fast-moving, performance-driven environment.
Read onYou are a people professional who operates as a genuine business partner. You understand commercial performance and you translate people work into business outcomes. You see your role as building the environment in which exceptional work happens. You are assertive and confident, while remaining genuinely warm and people-centred in the way you lead. You are ambitious, both for the organisation you join and for your own career, and you are ready to make your mark on two high-profile and exacting environments.
A background in multi-site, fast-paced organisations will serve you well here. The sector you come from matters far less than your ability to move quickly, hold complexity and bring people with you.
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Debbie is a leader in her field, she has unrivalled knowledge and expertise in the senior HR market. She is a pleasure to work with, providing huge levels of insight, she quickly understands the business and client and gets to the core of what is required. I have worked with Debbie as a candidate and as a client filling an HRD role. She does an amazing job in both capacities and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her
Cathryn Petchey, CPO, Superdry
