Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing
CompanyThomson Reuters
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At6/4/2026
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Description
At Thomson Reuters, our people are our most important asset. As a Director, HR Business Partner supporting our global Commercial Excellence and Marketing organizations, you will serve as a senior advisor to executive leaders, shaping and driving the people strategy in direct alignment with business priorities and enterprise transformation.
This role sits at the center of the GTM transformation. Commercial Excellence and Marketing are critical levers in how Thomson Reuters drives revenue growth, strengthens customer engagement, and scales globally. The work is complex and highly visible, requiring close partnership with senior leaders to evolve operating models, build new capabilities, and enable more integrated, data-driven ways of working across regions and functions.
The pace is high and the environment is dynamic. Priorities will shift as the business evolves, and success in this role requires strong judgment, adaptability, and the ability to balance near-term execution with long-term strategy. You will be expected to lead through ambiguity, navigate competing demands, and bring clarity and structure to complex organizational challenges.
As a core member of the leadership teams you support, you will provide insight-led counsel, shape critical talent and organizational decisions, and ensure the organization is equipped to deliver against its growth ambitions in an increasingly digital and AI-enabled landscape.
About The Role
In this opportunity as Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing, your responsibilities will be:
Strategic Business Partnership
This role sits at the center of the GTM transformation. Commercial Excellence and Marketing are critical levers in how Thomson Reuters drives revenue growth, strengthens customer engagement, and scales globally. The work is complex and highly visible, requiring close partnership with senior leaders to evolve operating models, build new capabilities, and enable more integrated, data-driven ways of working across regions and functions.
The pace is high and the environment is dynamic. Priorities will shift as the business evolves, and success in this role requires strong judgment, adaptability, and the ability to balance near-term execution with long-term strategy. You will be expected to lead through ambiguity, navigate competing demands, and bring clarity and structure to complex organizational challenges.
As a core member of the leadership teams you support, you will provide insight-led counsel, shape critical talent and organizational decisions, and ensure the organization is equipped to deliver against its growth ambitions in an increasingly digital and AI-enabled landscape.
About The Role
In this opportunity as Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing, your responsibilities will be:
Strategic Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted advisor to global Commercial Excellence and Marketing leadership team, providing clear, data-informed perspective on organizational health, performance, and risk Participate as an active member of leadership forums, shaping business decisions and ensuring people considerations are embedded in strategy
- Partner closely with Commercial Excellence and Marketing leaders to strengthen the organizational foundations that enable go-to-market success, including organizational design, stakeholder management and cross-functional alignment Help define and build the capabilities required to support a more integrated, insight-driven commercial model, including roles, skills, and ways of working
- Support leaders in translating strategy into organizational design and talent implications, ensuring alignment between business ambition and workforce capability
- Bring an external perspective on best practices in commercial and marketing organizations to inform decisions and accelerate progress
- Embed AI and digital capability considerations into workforce and talent strategy, ensuring teams are positioned to leverage new tools and ways of working
- Partner with leaders to prioritize reskilling and upskilling efforts to keep pace with business and technology change
- Use data and analytics to provide forward-looking insights that inform workforce planning and decision-making
- Lead workforce planning efforts across global Commercial Excellence and Marketing organizations, balancing current needs with future capability requirements
- Drive a more skills-based approach to talent decisions, including hiring, development, and internal mobility
- Lead organizational design efforts tied to transformation, including operating model evolution and changes to team structures
- Advise leaders on spans and layers, role clarity, and how to simplify and scale the organization effectively
- Support large-scale change initiatives, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and strong adoption across global teams
- Partner across HR to deliver coordinated solutions that support the broader transformation agenda
- Drive execution of core HR processes including performance management, compensation planning, and talent reviews
- Translate engagement data into focused, practical actions that improve team effectiveness and business outcomes
- Partner with leaders to strengthen culture, particularly in a global environment where consistency and local nuance must be balanced
- Champion inclusive leadership and ensure equity is embedded in hiring, promotion, and talent decisions
- Support leaders in building high-performing, accountable teams with strong levels of trust and engagement
You're a fit for the role of Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing if your background includes:
- Extensive experience as an HR Business Partner supporting senior leaders in complex, global organizations
- Strong track record of influencing executive stakeholders and shaping business-critical decisions
- Deep experience in organizational design, transformation, and change leadership
- Strategic and commercial mindset with an understanding of how Commercial Excellence and Marketing drive growth
- Ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Strong judgment, with the ability to simplify complex issues and provide clear, actionable direction
- Credibility and confidence to challenge senior leaders constructively
- High degree of resilience, adaptability, and ownership in a fast-moving environment
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world r
egardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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