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People Director

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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Expert/Leader
Leads operational HR across multiple Northern UK logistics sites, managing senior HR teams and ensuring consistent HR services. Develops and implements regional HR strategy, oversees workforce planning, industrial relations, talent initiatives, organizational change, and labor-cost management. Coordinates remote teams, resolves site issues, manages stakeholders, and drives projects across the regional cluster. Travel to UK locations is required.
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The role
We are looking for an experienced People Director to play a key role in the delivery and evolution of the People agenda for our Contract Logistics business across the UK & Ireland.

Reporting to the Senior People Director – UK & Ireland, you will partner closely with senior Contract Logistics leaders across a complex, fast-paced and growing business, while connecting with the wider regional and global People organisation.

You will lead and develop a team of HR Business Partners and Assistant HR Business Partners, building greater consistency, capability and discipline across our People operating model, processes and ways of working.

A significant focus of the role will be commercial business partnering. You will develop a strong understanding of our operations, customers, workforce and commercial drivers and use people, operational and commercial data to provide insight, challenge and recommendations that support better business decisions.

You will also play an active role in our growth agenda, bids and mobilisations, working alongside Commercial, Operations and Finance to ensure robust and commercially informed People input. This will include workforce models, organisational structures, labour assumptions, people costs, employee relations considerations, TUPE implications and mobilisation requirements.

As the business continues to evolve, you will lead and contribute to significant organisational change and strategic projects across the UK & Ireland, regional and global organisation. You will help strengthen workforce planning, organisational capability and the consistency of our People approach while ensuring the requirements of the Contract Logistics business are represented within wider People initiatives.

This is a role for someone who can operate comfortably at both a strategic and operational level — influencing senior leaders, developing People capability and translating business challenges into practical, commercially focused solutions.

So, who are we looking for?

Key skills and experience include:
 

  • Significant senior-level HR Business Partnering experience within a complex, operational and commercially focused environment; experience within logistics, supply chain, manufacturing or an industrial environment would be advantageous.
  • Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to connect People decisions to operational and financial outcomes.
  • Proven experience partnering with and influencing senior business leaders.
  • Experience leading and developing HR Business Partners and/or broader People teams across multiple locations.
  • Strong analytical capability, with experience using workforce and business data to generate insight and inform decision-making.
  • Proven project and change management experience, with the ability to lead multiple complex initiatives.
  • Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and TUPE. Knowledge or practical experience of Irish employment legislation would be advantageous.
  • Strong Employee Relations and Industrial Relations experience; experience working with unions and/or works councils would be beneficial.
  • Experience contributing to commercial bids, business growth or mobilisations would be highly desirable.
  • Experience working within regional and/or global matrix environments and contributing to cross-border projects.
  • The confidence and judgement to influence, constructively challenge and make recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Willingness to travel across our Contract Logistics locations weekly and as required for regional and global activity.
     

If you are a commercially minded People leader who enjoys working close to the business, developing high-performing teams and helping organisations grow and evolve, we would like to hear from you.
 

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Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

 

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

 

To Change What's Possible For Everyone

#LI-TV1


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