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Head of HR - Aspire Defence Services Ltd
The Head of HR plays a pivotal leadership role in driving the execution of the DNTS People Strategy across a multi-site facilities and services organization, supporting a workforce of approximately 1,000 employees. As the senior HR authority on the project/private finance initiative, you will be accountable for shaping and overseeing all HR operations — spanning people, processes, and systems — to ensure seamless alignment with strategic business objectives. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role that demands a forward-thinking professional capable of fostering and embedding a high-performance culture, ensuring full compliance, and enhancing employee engagement at every level of the organization.
Strategic Leadership
- Implement the comprehensive KBR HR strategy aligned with the company’s goals, values, and operational priorities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the senior leadership team on people matters, organizational design, and change management.
- Drive cultural alignment, leadership development, and succession planning across the organization.
Talent Management
- Oversee recruitment and workforce planning to ensure optimal staffing levels, skills alignment, and diversity.
- Champion internal mobility, performance management, and leadership development programs.
- Lead initiatives to enhance employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
- Identify existing skills requirements, anticipate future needs and undertake analysis of current skills base. Create strategies to fill “skills gaps”.
- Oversee strategies, procedures and policies that encourage career progression
Learning & Development
- Implement learning strategies that enhance employee capability, compliance training, and career development.
- Drive leadership development and coaching for mid-to-senior managers.
HR Operations & Compliance
- Ensure effective delivery of core HR services (e.g., payroll, contracts, records management) through robust HR systems and processes.
- Maintain compliance with all employment laws, health & safety standards, and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Accountable for policies and processes that deliver the optimum efficiencies across the employee life-cycle of attraction, recruitment, onboarding, development, retention and separation.
- Utilize HR metrics to identify trends to inform decision-making, people strategies and continuous improvement.
Employee Relations
- Establish and maintain effective communication channels.
- Maintain effective Trade Union relationships, promoting a positive working environment and minimizing risk to the business and disruption
- Oversee Employee Performance Management strategies and policies (processes that manage conduct, capability, grievance)
- Lead and/or oversea large scale change management activities & requirements
- Oversee employee relations strategies to ensure a positive, fair, and legally compliant workplace environment.
- Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and mutual respect.
- Own people policies that drive a culture aligned with KBR values and employment law compliance
- Own well-being programmes for the workforce
- Accountable for strategies that increase employee engagement levels and minimize attrition to acceptable level of churn
Compensation, Benefits & Reward
- Design and oversee fair and competitive total rewards programs.
- Ownership of senior leadership incentive programmes
- Negotiate pay agreements and remuneration packages with recognized Trade Unions and staff representative bodies
- Conduct regular market benchmarking and review of compensation structures.
- Partner with Finance to manage the HR budget and workforce cost planning.
Skills & Competencies
- Strategic thinking with hands-on operational capability.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Expert knowledge of employment law and HR best practices & strong expertise in change management
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, presentation and influencing skills at all levels
- Keen to continually review and
- Proficiency in HRIS systems and data analytics.
Key Relationships
- Executive Leadership Team
- Site Managers & Operational Leaders
- Trade Unions
- Legal & Compliance
- Finance & IT
- External vendors and regulatory bodies
closing date for applications 17 August 2025
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