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About the Role
PPL is seeking an established, commercially minded Head of HR to lead and build the HR function, ensuring an excellent end-to-end service that supports the company's ambitious growth. This role involves translating people and organizational priorities into a clear HR plan, providing responsive, trusted, and legally sound HR support.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the HR team, setting clear standards and ensuring quality assurance.
- Provide practical, credible, and legally sound advice to senior leaders and People Managers.
- Lead complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and confidential handling.
- Develop workforce plans for recruitment, retention, and succession, identifying risks.
- Oversee the recruitment process and the full employment lifecycle.
- Manage the operational design and delivery of performance and appraisal processes.
- Recommend improvements to the employment experience, culture, inclusion, and wellbeing based on data.
- Own PPL's HR systems and data, ensuring accuracy, security, and accessibility.
- Improve and integrate HR processes and systems to reduce duplication and manual work.
- Provide workforce information and insight to leadership and the Board.
- Maintain a proportionate policy, risk, and control framework.
- Lead the response to changes in employment law and HR practice.
- Own the HR elements of payroll, ensuring accurate inputs and clear responsibilities.
Requirements
- Led, or held substantial senior accountability for, an end-to-end HR function.
- Experience as a Head of HR or senior HR generalist.
- CIPD Level 7, or equivalent senior HR experience.
- Substantial experience in a senior generalist HR role with accountability across the employment lifecycle.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law.
- Confident leadership of complex employee relations matters.
- Track record of translating organizational priorities into a practical HR plan, policies, processes, and measurable delivery.
- Credibility with Directors and senior leaders, combining professional judgment with commercial and operational understanding.
- Experience in workforce planning, recruitment, and performance management in a growing or changing organization.
- Strong capability in HR systems, workforce data, reporting, and process improvement.
- Experience leading and developing people, with the judgment to delegate while retaining assurance.
- Discretion, sound judgment, and a strong commitment to PPL's mission, values, and social purpose.
- Experience in consultancy, professional services, a social enterprise, or another purpose-led organization is valuable.
- Experience building or significantly improving an HR function during growth is valuable.
- Experience implementing an HR information system is valuable.
- Experience supporting changes to roles and structures is valuable.
Skills
- HR leadership
- Commercial acumen
- End-to-end HR service delivery
- HR strategy development
- Employee relations
- Workforce planning
- Recruitment
- Performance management
- Professional development
- HR systems and data management
- Policy development
- Risk management
- Reward management
- UK employment law
- Data analysis
- Process improvement
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Head of HR
- Senior HR Generalist
Education Level
- CIPD Level 7 or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- £70,000-£80,000pa
- Bonus
Benefits
- Private health insurance
About the Company
- PPL is a management consultancy and a social enterprise, certified B Corp.
- Works with the NHS, local government, and civil society to improve services and outcomes.
- Donates over 50% of profits to support charities and social impact.
- Provides 10 days of paid volunteer leave annually.
- Operates with care, integrity, high standards, and a strong sense of responsibility.
- Currently has around 70 employees and plans significant growth.