HR Director – Telford

About the job you’re considering

Capgemini UK is seeking a highly experienced HR Director to support one of its most strategically significant business areas. Reporting directly to the UK HR Director and with a dotted line into the Head of the Market Unit, this is a pivotal leadership role within the UK HR function.

The successful candidate will shape and lead the Market Unit’s people agenda, delivering a workforce strategy that aligns with business goals, supports client engagement, and ensures long-term organisational capability. This is a hands-on and strategic role requiring depth in transformation, workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, and stakeholder influence.

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; you will be expected to be onsite in Telford 3 days per week.

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).

Your role

As a strategic HR Director, you will be responsible for driving and championing both country and business-led initiatives within the Market Unit (MU).  You will be responsible for:

• Acting as a strategic HR partner on major client engagements, bids, and transitions.
• Coaching senior leaders and embed consistent talent standards.
• Navigating complex employee relations and industrial landscapes.
• Championing digital HR tools, automation, and AI for smarter service delivery.
• Leading strategic workforce planning and succession for critical roles.
• Driving culture, engagement, and DEI across hybrid, distributed teams.
• Using data and analytics to inform decisions and demonstrate impact.
• Representing Capgemini HR in external forums and industry bodies.

Your skills and experience

• A strategic mindset with a hands-on approach to execution.
• Significant experience in a senior HR leadership role within complex, matrixed organisations — ideally in IT services or consulting.
• Strong business acumen and a proven ability to influence and coach senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success in driving change, building high-performing teams, and navigating complex employee relations landscapes.
• Deep expertise in talent management, workforce transformation, engagement, and culture-building.
• Strong understanding of the public sector or regulated environments is advantageous.
• Experience managing a population of 2,000+ employees, with a focus on agility, scalability, and business impact.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and commercial judgment.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect people strategies to business performance, cost drivers, and client outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead HR transformation initiatives, including operating model redesign, digital enablement, and capability uplift.
• Skilled in leveraging people analytics and workforce data to drive strategic decisions and demonstrate HR value.
• Experience in managing HR governance, compliance, and risk frameworks across diverse business units.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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