People Director

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Arqiva Full time

People Director (Operations & Delivery)

Location: Commutable distance to Winchester / London. Arqiva offer a hybrid working model whereby site visits tend to be more meeting dependent

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To equip our ExCo and Leadership Team to thrive and help us create the environment and conditions for our people to do their best work which directly contributes to our customers achieving their growth and delivery targets. This role is a key member of the People and Culture (P+C) leadership team which defines and owns the pan-Arqiva people priorities and strategy. The role also sits on the Operations leadership team working with the respective ExCo member to drive and enable the functional people plan and agenda.

The role 

You will have accountability for the line management of the People Delivery Leads that provide HR business partner expertise across the various functional units and pan-Arqiva people change and transformation. Setting the vision and outcomes for the Delivery Leads, you will own the operational plan and performance of the team.

In collaboration with the wider P&C Leadership Team, you will ensure that the people priorities are delivered to our customers through informing, asking and overseeing expertise and resources from the wider team.

  • Providing thought leadership and input into HR products, acting as a source of expert guidance
  • Provide strategic HR direction to the respective Exco and leadership teams, in the context of the overall business vision and strategy to achieve the business goals. 
  • Own and deliver the people plan and functional people strategy – working with the respective Exco member and leadership team to build a plan that delivers the right skills in the right place, at the right time, by developing an integrated workforce plan, future skills road map and delivery plan to realisation. 
  • Provide business insight to P&C team and P&C insight to business; utilising both qualitative and quantitative data to inform the development of solutions to enable our customers to achieve their growth and delivery targets.
  • Within the functional people plan create and deliver the employee experience and key people practices for the functions, together with P&C centres of expertise facilitating an environment for our people to do their best work (engagement, performance, culture, leadership).
  • Provide thought leadership on evolving opportunities to contribute to Arqiva’s Diversity and Inclusion agenda, both for their function and sponsoring this across the wider business. 
  • Work with leaders to identify and develop their talent and ensure we create as many career defining experiences for all our people e.g. learning resources, peer to peer learning, mentoring, job shadowing, projects etc. 
  • Deliver HR products that encourage our people to take ownership of their own performance, careers and learning, but providing them with a range of different options, resources and experiences. Including strategies where critical roles are identified, appropriately resourced, and rewarded to retain and progress talent within the organisation 
  • Influence the narrative for good relations across BECTU and AEB and the wider employee community.
  • Lead diagnosis of current and future people context for own function(s); commission support from CoEs to address opportunities & challenges; lead delivery of end to end programmes including across organisational boundaries to implement and effectively embed people change.

The person 

  • Experience of being a trusted advisor to a senior business leader, with significant experience in influencing senior leaders.
  • Led, delivered and embedded change (people and transformational).
  • Collaborative problem solver and ability to take ownership of issues and call out issues when appropriate.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management experience with the ability to work at all levels and in a matrix environment.
  • Commercial thinker, experience of delivering commercial benefits to the business and understand market dynamics.
  • You will have extensive experience of business partnering at a senior level and hold a CIPD qualification.
  • Progressive approach to HR and ability to bring the outside in.

Typical benefits include

  • 6% pension contribution 
  • Private Medical 
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance 
  • Work. Life. Smarter . Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture 

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.    

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.  

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.  

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply   

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