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Capgemini UK HR Director
Capgemini UK is seeking a highly experienced HR Director to partner a complex and diverse portfolio of UK business lines. Reporting directly to the UK HR Director, this role sits at the heart of the UK HR leadership team and plays a critical role in shaping and delivering the people agenda across multiple business units and operating models.
This position supports a combined employee population of c.3,800 people across consulting, applications, delivery, and specialist business units, operating within a highly matrixed environment with both UK and global interfaces. The role requires strong strategic judgement, hands-on leadership, and the ability to operate credibly with senior leaders across the business.
Your Role
As HR Director for a broad and varied set of UK business areas, you will lead and deliver the people agenda in alignment with Capgemini’s country and group HR strategies. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, ensuring people priorities support business performance, client delivery, and long-term capability.
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Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as strategic HR Business Partner to senior leaders across multiple UK business units.
- Setting and driving the people strategy for the portfolio aligned to UK and Group HR direction.
- Providing leadership across workforce planning, talent management, succession, reward, engagement and employee relations.
- Partnering with leadership on organisation design and capability planning.
- Driving culture, engagement and inclusion across a hybrid workforce.
- Using people data and insight to inform decisions and demonstrate impact.
- Operating effectively in a matrixed HR operating model.
- Contributing to wider UK HR leadership activities.
Skills And Experience
- Proven senior HR leadership experience in large, matrixed organisations, ideally technology or consulting.
- Strategic mindset with a pragmatic, hands-on delivery approach.
- Strong stakeholder influence at executive level.
- Deep experience across talent, workforce planning, organisation design and employee relations.
- Experience supporting employee populations of 3,000+.
- High integrity, discretion and strong commercial judgement.
- Comfortable operating across UK and global business contexts.
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Leadership & team context
The role provides leadership and oversight to a team of HR Business Partners and HR professionals aligned to the business portfolio, within a matrixed structure.
Hybrid working
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Pre-employment checks
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).
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