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About the Role

Microsoft is expanding globally, with the UK being a crucial part of this growth. This role partners with senior leadership to drive the people strategy across UK&I Global Enterprise Sales and EMEA SE&O and CCS businesses. The leader will redefine HR's partnership with the business, integrating AI into HR workflows and decision-making to enhance strategic impact and productivity.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic talent management processes to attract, retain, and develop talent.
Partner with leaders to enhance organizational effectiveness and foster an inclusive culture.
Develop and align leaders to drive business transformation and cultural shifts.
Provide executive oversight for country/geo HR accountabilities, including crisis management and business continuity.
Lead the UK portfolio of legislative and compliance work, ensuring adherence to employment laws and regulations.
Govern relationships with unions and employee representative bodies.
Oversee policy management and activation, ensuring alignment with global philosophy and local requirements.
Lead teams to design and implement systemic organizational and people strategies aligned with the business agenda.
Deliver operational excellence in core HR programs.
Partner on employee investigations.
Lead and develop HR capability through coaching and setting clear outcomes.
Build a high-performing, future-ready HR team.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Legal, Business, Psychology, or related field AND demonstrable experience with HR or related experience involving applicable employment laws and policies, OR equivalent experience.
Proven people management/team leadership experience.
Relevant generalist HR skills and the ability to mentor others on complex HR issues.
Knowledge of the UK and capability in organizational development, leadership development, performance management, diversity and inclusion integration, career coaching, and HR Operations.
Experience partnering with a wide network of clients and across HR to deliver effective business solutions.
Proven ability to develop trusted advisor relationships with senior executives.
Proven executive coaching capabilities.
Demonstrated success in managing HR initiatives in a large, complex, matrixed, and global business environment.
Ability to deal with ambiguity, recognize trends, and identify systematic approaches to solving problems.
Demonstrated experience leading the UK legislative and compliance portfolio, including consultation requirements and partnership with works councils, unions, and/or other employee representative bodies.
Proven capability in policy governance/activation and landing HR program and process deployments.
Experience in a fast-paced, global company of similar scale and complexity preferred.
Experience with country/geo crisis management and business continuity.
Proven transformation leadership, including transformation/work migration planning and execution.
Proficient change management and communications discipline.
Proven success in multiple industries or business models driving organizational change initiatives and developing talent management plans for a global organization.
Ability to partner effectively with senior business leaders and HR colleagues.
Effective liaison between global, regional, senior management, staff, and other departments.
Organization Development expertise, including organizational diagnostics, org structure alignment to business requirements, and change management expertise.
Experience in executive coaching.
Masters Degree in Human Resources, Legal, Business, Psychology, or related field AND demonstrable experience with HR or related experience involving applicable employment laws and policies.

Skills

Organizational Leadership
Executive Maturity
Judgment
Collaboration
Influence for Impact
Drive for Results
Strategic Talent Management
Organizational Effectiveness
Leadership Effectiveness
Country/Geo HR Governance
Crisis Management
Business Continuity
Legislative, Compliance, & Policy Governance
People Management
HR Capability Development
AI integration in HR

Location

United Kingdom
Ireland

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree
Masters Degree

Salary/Compensations

£ 100,400.00 - £ 200,500.00 per year (United Kingdom)
€ 113,600.00 - € 213,700.00 per year (Ireland)

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

Microsoft is on a path to growing all its businesses around the world and the United Kingdom is a key part of that plan.
Our presence in the UK encompasses the full complement of Microsoft business, including sales, engineering, gaming, support, consulting, marketing and much more, with approximately 6,000 employees in the geo.
As Microsoft accelerates its AI transformation, this leader will help redefine how HR partners the business, embedding AI into HR workflows, workforce insights and decision-making to raise strategic impact, quality and productivity.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.