Doocey Group
Head of HR
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Head of HR
Salary
Our salaries are competitive and reviewed regularly to ensure they remain fair and in line with the wider industry.
Location
Tipton
Our Company
Doocey Group is a long-established, family-run utility and civil engineering contractor with over 40 years of industry experience. Built on strong Black Country values, we pride ourselves on integrity, reliability, responsiveness, and a commitment to delivering high standards in everything we do.
Over the past 10 years, Doocey Group has experienced significant growth, achieved through consistently delivering high-quality work for our clients, including National Grid and South Staffordshire Water. Our success is built to deliver safely and reliably in a fast-paced and often challenging environment.
As we approach a turnover of £100m, this marks an important milestone in our journey and reflects the hard work, ambition, and dedication of our teams across the business. If you are looking to join a growing organisation that values hard work, loyalty, and ambition, you will feel right at home at Doocey Group.
The Role
The Head of Human Resources is responsible for developing and delivering the Group's People Strategy, ensuring the organisation has the capability, culture, leadership, and resources required to support sustained business growth.
Supporting approximately 300 PAYE employees across six operational locations, the role provides strategic leadership for Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Reception, and Administrative Support functions. The Head of HR will lead and develop a multi-disciplinary people team, ensuring consistently high standards of service delivery, compliance, employee experience, and organisational effectiveness.
Operating within a rapidly growing and fast-paced environment, the Head of HR will ensure that policies, procedures, systems, and management capability evolve in line with business demands. Particular focus will be placed on building manager capability, strengthening accountability, improving organisational performance, and embedding a high-performance culture throughout the Group.
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The Head of HR will act as a trusted advisor to Directors and senior leaders, providing commercially focused people solutions that support operational objectives while ensuring legal compliance and best practice.
The role is accountable for ensuring the People Function delivers measurable value to the business through effective recruitment, talent development, organisational design, employee engagement, workforce planning, and performance management.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver the Group People Strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, growth plans, and operational requirements.
- Provide strategic and operational HR leadership across all Group businesses and locations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to Directors and senior leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, employee relations, and people-related risk.
- Lead and develop the HR, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Reception, and Administrative Support functions.
- Coach and develop managers to strengthen leadership capability, accountability, and people management effectiveness.
- Oversee complex employee relations matters, including disciplinaries, grievances, appeals, capability, and organisational change processes.
- Drive a high-performance culture through effective performance management, engagement, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead workforce planning, succession planning, and talent management activities to support future business growth.
- Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and employer branding strategies to attract and retain high-quality talent.
- Develop and implement Learning & Development strategies, leadership programmes, and career development pathways.
- Monitor people metrics, KPIs, and workforce trends, providing insight and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Ensure HR policies, procedures, and governance frameworks remain compliant, effective, and commercially focused.
- Lead organisational change, restructuring, acquisitions, and business integration projects where required.
- Oversee audits, compliance reviews, and risk management activities across all people processes.
- Champion diversity, inclusion, wellbeing, and employee engagement initiatives across the Group.
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Technical Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a senior HR leadership role within a fast-paced, commercially focused, and growing organisation.
- Demonstrable success in developing and implementing People Strategies that support organisational growth and performance.
- Extensive knowledge of UK employment law, HR best practice, and employee relations.
- Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across HR, Recruitment, and Learning & Development functions.
- Proven ability to influence, coach, and challenge senior leaders and managers at all levels.
- Experience leading organisational change, cultural transformation, restructures, and business integrations.
- Strong workforce planning, organisational design, and succession planning expertise.
- Commercially minded with the ability to align people strategies to operational and financial objectives.
- Strong analytical skills with experience producing and presenting workforce metrics, KPIs, and management information.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, project management, and leadership capabilities.
Qualifications & Training
- CIPD Level 7 qualified or equivalent.
- Minimum 10 years' progressive HR experience, including significant senior leadership responsibility.
- Experience leading HR, Talent Acquisition, and Learning & Development functions.
- Strong employment law expertise and experience supporting multi-site operations.
- GDPR training and experience working within growing, change-oriented organisations.
Additional Information
Doocey Group values a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
Please note that we operate with a preferred supplier list and will not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies with whom we do not have an existing agreement.
By submitting your application, you consent to Doocey Group retaining your CV, application details, and personal information for the purpose of considering you for current and future employment opportunities. Your information will be stored securely and will only be shared internally as necessary.
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