Amey

Head of HR

Amey

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: United Kingdom

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Lead

About the role

  • Partner with the Chief Operations Director to ensure effective HR reporting, metrics and processes.
  • Work with the International Growth Lead to support people-related activity in new geographies, collaborating closely with Group HR.
  • Lead the delivery of the annual People Plan, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and leveraging specialist expertise.
  • Input into key strategic bids as required and coordinate required people input into all bidding activity.
  • Identify opportunities for improvement/initiatives to support work winning aims.
  • Deputise for the People Director as required.
  • Lead the EDI and Wellbeing strategy for the Business Unit and ensure alignment with Amey wide priorities.
  • Drive an engagement strategy with regular monitoring and action planning.
  • Refine and embed clear career paths and reward pathways across the business.
  • Embed senior succession planning and ensure robust talent identification processes in collaboration with L&D.
  • Deliver required organisational change activity working in collaboration with the People Partners.
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Coach and mentor both Senior Leaders and more junior members of the HR team.
  • Collaborate with the recruitment lead to develop a coherent workforce plan focused on growth and future skills.
  • Work in collaboration with the L&D team and People Partners to design and deliver required internal activity to develop future skills.
  • Support business leaders in identifying future workforce requirements for proactive planning and targeted recruitment.
  • Lead mobilisation of any new SuccessFactors modules within the BU.
  • Provide advice on complex ER cases.
  • Provide business partner support for the functional teams in the BU.
  • Contribute to group wide HR projects as required.

Requirements

  • Significant experience as a senior HR leader with a robust background in business partnering in a complex, fast‑paced environment.
  • Ideally will have worked within a global business delivering HR solutions internationally.
  • A strong commercial mindset with the ability to deliver value‑adding HR solutions aligned to business needs.
  • Proven capability in organisational development, change and workforce planning.
  • Expertise in succession planning, career pathways, and capability development.
  • Experience leading engagement, wellbeing, EDI and talent initiatives at scale.
  • Confidence in coaching senior leaders and influencing at senior level.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to drive delivery across multiple priorities.
  • Ability to build strong internal and external networks and bring best practice into the organisation.
  • A proactive, pragmatic solutions‑focused approach with a commitment to continuous improvement.
  • Resilient and determined.
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