Speculative Applications 2025

We welcome speculative applications to join our team, if the regional opportunity is not currently available.

Are you a highly successful CPO/People Director looking for an alternative to corporate life? Are you looking for an interesting and challenging role that can fit around other commitments/interests?

Are you a strategically astute HR Director, able to work with SME businesses and like to work with entrepreneurial leaders? Have you ever considered working as a portfolio HR professional and having more control over your working life? Are you a people person with the ability to present compelling strategic HR solutions? Do you believe people are the hub of success? Do you want to work with a fast growing, fun-loving and ambitious business where our values are key to everything we do?

This opportunity will appeal to a successful high calibre individual seeking a rewarding challenge incorporating a flexible work-life balance and good earnings potential. You determine how many days you want to work with the earnings potential that matches it. You will have the autonomy and freedom to achieve results with all the marketing and operational support expected from a thriving national company.

Requirements

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery of HR solutions to our client businesses assigned to you; business and strategic HR planning, culture change, business transformation, change management, organisational design, D&I, wellbeing, L&D and Talent Management

• Full accountability for managing your assigned clients and working in partnership with the whole team to ensure a first-class HR service is provided

• Work with the Regional Director and support the process for attracting and gaining new clients

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience inputting into the strategic direction of the business & partnering with the Board & Senior Executive team

• Ideally be CIPD qualified or equivalent

• A strong “people person” with a natural ability to lead teams and nurture and build relationships

• Credible and able to “connect” with and influence SME sector Business Owners

• Ability to provide strategic options by understanding client HR needs and proposing appropriate solutions

• Dynamic, persuasive, energetic, motivated, able to makes things happen!

• Organised, dependable and progressive - you genuinely love and seek out new ways to work and embrace technology

• Entrepreneurial, non-corporate individual seeking the freedom to work autonomously

• Commercial - you are a business person "who does HR". You see the big picture.

Benefits

Who you are/what we are looking for:

We believe in “Team”. We attract individuals who can put their energies into being part of our team and fully embrace all aspects of working as part of our local and national teams.

Network: you will have access to an amazing community of People Directors who are always ready to support each other. In addition to this, we have carefully chosen strategic national partnerships that enhance our services and provide support to our People Directors. It's a #win-win situation!

CPD: We provide our own programme of CPD throughout the year, designed around feedback from our team along with external factors such as business and economic trends. We galvanise our highly knowledgeable teams to find solutions to benefit our clients. #Still learning.

We are proud of our culture. Our four core values "win/win, always passionate, still learning and be pragmatic" provide the foundation on which the culture is built. We seek individuals who are aligned with our culture and values.

We have a dynamic marketing team that is constantly brainstorming creative ideas to boost awareness and generate new opportunities. This allows you to focus on delivering exceptional results for your clients.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced business professional or consultant with the ability to deliver professional HR services to the SME sector across the UK.

There is some scope for client work to be remote, although most client work is onsite so interested applicants will need to be within easy commute of all the areas listed above.

If you are shortlisted you will be required to complete a behavioural assessment and a background/identity check.