HR Director, nexfibre

We are looking for a HR Director to join us at nexfibre, based in Paddington, London. The HR Director will lead the development and execution of nexfibre's people strategy, ensuring the organisation has the capability, culture, leadership and governance required to scale a national wholesale fibre infrastructure business.

What will you be doing?

• Develop and deliver a people strategy aligned to nexfibre's business plan, growth trajectory and shareholder expectations.
• Act as a trusted adviser to the CEO and Executive Committee on organisational design, leadership effectiveness, succession and talent risks.
• Build on a strong, inclusive culture that supports accountability, collaboration and performance at scale.
• Lead organisation design as the business scales, ensuring clarity of roles, decision rights and governance.
• Support leadership team development as nexfibre transitions from build out to operational maturity.
• Drive workforce planning across critical capability areas including engineering, operations, commercial and corporate functions.
• Own senior hiring and succession planning for executive and leadership roles.
• Design and oversee performance management, reward and incentive frameworks aligned with investor backed infrastructure best practice.
• Ensure consistent, fair and commercially aligned approaches to compensation, grading and progression.
• Provide expert leadership on employee relations, ensuring issues are managed fairly, pragmatically and in line with UK employment law.
• Oversee people policies, governance and compliance in line with regulatory and shareholder expectations.
• Act as escalation point for complex or sensitive people matters.
• Lead people aspects of change programmes, including growth, integration and transformation activity.
• Support effective communication and engagement during periods of change, maintaining trust and organisational momentum.
• Partner closely with Finance, Legal and Operations to ensure people decisions are commercially sound and risk aware.
• Ensure scalable, efficient people processes, systems and data to support a growing organisation.
• Use insight and analytics to inform decision making and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate

• Significant senior HR/People leadership experience, ideally in infrastructure, telecoms, utilities or similarly regulated, capital intensive environments.
• Proven experience supporting fast growing, investor backed or private equity backed organisations.
• Strong understanding of UK employment law, governance and best practice people frameworks.
• Experience partnering at executive and board level with credibility and impact.
• Demonstrated ability to balance pace, pragmatism and rigour in a scale up context.
• Commercial, pragmatic and outcomes focused.
• Confident operating with ambiguity and complexity.
• High integrity, sound judgement and strong emotional intelligence.
• Collaborative, credible and able to influence at all levels.
• Resilient, adaptable and comfortable operating at pace.
• Desirable Experience in wholesale, B2B or platform based business models.
• Desirable Exposure to integration, consolidation or major change programmes.
• Desirable Experience operating in joint venture or multi shareholder environments.

What's in it for you

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
• 25 days' annual leave, plus the usual 8 UK Bank Holidays.
• Bupa private healthcare coverage.
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits, critical illness cover, dental & optical insurance.
• Pension contribution matched up to 10%.
• Access to our car benefit scheme via Tusker and our Cycle to Work scheme.
• Virgin Media / O2 discounts and offers.

Nexfibre is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.