HR Director

Capgemini -
London

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Permanent

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Human resources
Leadership

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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.

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.

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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HR Director

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