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About the Role
London Business School is seeking an experienced Associate Director, Faculty HR to lead the delivery of Faculty HR strategy and provide strategic and operational leadership. This role partners with senior leaders to align workforce planning and people initiatives with the School’s strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of Faculty HR strategy, ensuring people priorities support the School’s strategic direction, RFO plans and long-term workforce requirements.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with senior academic leaders, School leadership teams and key stakeholders.
- Provide strategic HR leadership and advice on organisational priorities, workforce planning, people risks, change initiatives and faculty-related people matters.
- Contribute to School-wide and cross-functional initiatives, committees and projects, providing Faculty HR expertise and insight.
- Lead and influence discussions relating to Faculty people policy, governance and operational effectiveness.
- Champion change and continuous improvement by role-modelling collaborative behaviours and embedding effective people practices across faculty populations.
- Oversee faculty recruitment activity, ensuring effective and compliant recruitment processes, approvals and candidate engagement.
- Provide oversight and strategic support for faculty induction and onboarding, helping ensure a positive and effective transition into the School.
- Approve faculty recruitment communications, onboarding documentation and related faculty information resources.
- Oversee annual faculty performance review, salary review and reward-related processes, ensuring effective governance, accuracy and timely delivery.
- Provide senior oversight and leadership on complex employee relations matters, including cases requiring external legal support.
- Lead the review and continuous improvement of Faculty HR policies, processes and governance arrangements.
- Lead oversight of statutory, ranking and accreditation-related data submissions and reporting requirements.
- Lead, develop and support the Faculty HR team through effective performance management, coaching and development.
Requirements
- A degree, equivalent work experience or other relevant HR qualification, such as CIPD.
- A demonstrated track record of relationship building, persuasion and influencing.
- The ability to act as a resilient, driven self-starter who leads positively by example.
- A collaborative leadership style and the ability to role-model constructive behaviours.
- A solution-focused approach, strong problem-solving capability and excellent communication skills.
- Confidence working with ambiguity and openness to change.
- The ability to role-model School values, professional standards and sound judgement.
- A proven track record delivering people management initiatives linked to agreed plans.
- The ability to work naturally and purposefully across teams, including within the RFO and across the wider School.
- Experience advising senior stakeholders on complex HR, people policy or organisational matters.
- Strong understanding of HR governance, compliance and employee relations practice.
- Experience leading or supporting process improvement, policy development and change activity.
- Strong data, reporting and analytical capability to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Experience managing, coaching or developing a team would be advantageous.
Skills
- Relationship building
- Persuasion
- Influencing
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- HR governance
- Compliance
- Employee relations
- Process improvement
- Policy development
- Change management
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Team management
- Coaching
- Development
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Smart Working
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Experienced
Education Level
- Degree
- CIPD
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary dependent upon experience
Benefits
- Generous annual leave of 27 days plus extra days between Christmas and New Year
- USS pension, 14.5% employer contribution
- Free onsite gym and swimming pool
- Professional development opportunities
- Enhanced cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing offering
About the Company
- London Business School is a global and vibrant business community based in three of the world’s most dynamic cities, London, Dubai and Riyadh.
- We offer best in class hybrid learning to our students and participants, whilst creating a flexible, supportive and dynamic working environment for our people to excel in, whatever their location.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a globally reaching institution, committed to creating tangible and sustainable change in driving inclusion & belonging within our School, education and society at large.
- We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone in our community feels they belong and thrive.
- This is a key school priority, and we want everyone who joins LBS to feel respected, welcomed, and heard.