Head of People

Role: Head of People / Director

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Sunbury-upon-Thames, UK (hybrid working is available, allowing for a mix of office/home working)

Salary: To £100,000 (depending on experience), plus bonus and company benefits

 **Please note - we will only be accepting direct applications and will not be engaging any recruitment agency**

Yorktel-Kinly is a unified global leader in collaboration, systems integration, and managed services. We focus on transforming workspaces, simplifying complexity, and empowering people. Our in-house expertise includes AI-powered room monitoring, 24/7 support, and a unique enterprise service layer, enabling us to operate with even greater agility, efficiency, and precision.

With 27 offices in 11 countries, 1,600 colleagues, 900 specialist accreditations, 40-years' professional experience and 2,500 customers, we are delivering scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions around the world.

It is an exciting time at Yorktel-Kinly, as our transformation across the business continues. As a result, we have new opportunities for Human Resource professionals to join our highly collaborative team, to assist the business in our new era.

In this newly created position, working as Head of People, reporting into the Global People Director and a dotted line to our Managing Director (UK Region), you will be a senior strategic leader, responsible for shaping and delivering the UK-region people agenda in line with Yorktel-Kinly’s global people strategy and commercial objectives.

You will act as a trusted advisor to the UK Senior Leadership Team (SLT), own the development and execution of strategic people plans, ensuring organisational capability, performance, culture, and compliance across the region.

This role provides leadership through growth, change, and transformation, balancing strong governance with progressive, people-centred initiatives that enhance engagement, capability, and business performance. 

Key responsibilities: 

Strategic Business Partnering

• Act as the primary People & Culture partner to the UK Senior Leadership Team, providing trusted, pragmatic and commercially sound advice

• Translate business strategy into clear, actionable UK people plans aligned to global priorities

• Mentor and coach members of the SLT, utilising external executive coaching or specialist providers where appropriate

Organisational Design, Change & Transformation

• Lead and manage organisational change initiatives across the UK region, including restructures, re-organisations and workforce transformations

• Serve as the key decision maker on people process and outcomes, ensuring alignment with UK employment law, best practice and Yorktel-Kinly values

• Lead and support M&A activity, including due diligence, integration, TUPE processes and post integration workforce strategy

Talent, Performance & Leadership Development

• Partner with the Global Talent Acquisition team to define and continuously review local talent pathways, entry points into the business and internal career progression within the UK region

• Own the UK performance management framework, driving timely and effective review cycles, calibration, documentation and annual salary and bonus/variable compensation processes

• Champion learning and development across the region, ensuring capability building at leadership, technical and functional levels

Culture, Engagement & Employee Experience

• Drive Yorktel-Kinly’s culture and values across all UK people propositions, ensuring strong local engagement and ownership

• Lead initiatives to increase employee engagement, gathering feedback and translating insight into action

• Proactively design and implement UK relevant initiatives across DEI, CSR and employee wellbeing, ensuring measurable impact and alignment with global direction

• Ensure that the People team business partners with ERGs and providing guidance and opening doors for growth and success

Workforce Planning, MI & Governance

• Own UK headcount forecasting in partnership with Finance and regional leadership

• Produce, analyse and interpret people MI, providing monthly and quarterly insights on attrition, absence, performance, talent, diversity and benchmarking trends

• Use data driven insight to recommend and implement solutions that improve retention, capability and organisational health

Policy, Process & Operational Excellence

• Ensure continuous review and optimisation of UK HR policies and procedures, maintaining compliance with local employment legislation and evolving best practice

• Review HR systems and processes to identify efficiencies and opportunities for improvement

• Drive operational effectiveness within the UK HR team, reducing administrative burden and enabling greater focus on strategic, creative and engagement led activities

Reward, Payroll & Risk Management

• Overall accountability for UK region payroll delivery, including PEO arrangements, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance

• Leadership and sign off of UK reward processes, including but not limited to salary reviews, bonus, commission and variable compensation schemes

• Manage employee relations risk and complex cases with sound judgement and a balanced commercial and people centred approach

Skills and experience:

Essential:

• Significant senior HR leadership experience within a EMEA environment, ideally within a dynamic, project based or professional services organisation

• Proven experience partnering at executive or SLT level

• Strong knowledge of UK employment law, organisational change, and workforce relations

• Demonstrable experience leading performance management, reward, talent and cultural initiatives

• Experience supporting M&A and TUPE processes

• Highly data literate, with experience using MI to drive business decisions

• Acts with credibility, integrity and courage and capable of balancing commercial rigour with empathy and inclusive leadership

• Can drive pace, simplicity and clarity in complex environments

Desirable:

• Experience working within a global or matrixed organisation

• Background in technology, engineering, AV, or services based sectors

• CIPD qualification or equivalent professional accreditation

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

If you do require details of the vacancy or the application process in an alternative format, please email jobs@kinly.com outlining your requirements

Equal Opportunities:

Yorktel-Kinly is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, age, gender identity, pregnancy, colour, race, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion or any other ‘protected characteristics. We welcome your application.