Head of People

7 months ago

Dundee, United Kingdom Insights Full time

**Who are Insights?**
Insights is a Global Learning and Development company which aims to change the world through the power of self-awareness. We’re a global leader in providing innovative and engaging solutions for personal and organisational development. We help individuals, teams and leaders discover their unique strengths, preferences, and styles. Empowering them to communicate seamlessly, collaborate effectively, and achieve peak performance.

We have ambitious growth plans that focus on scaling our organisation while extending our capabilities to innovate and create greater value for our communities of practitioners, clients and learners. Our people are at the heart of these initiatives and our People Team both enable and supports us to achieve our goals.

As a purpose led business, we want to achieve our objectives in a sustainable way by reducing our environmental impact and growing our social impact through the Insights Foundation.

**What’s the role?**
Head of People is a global role within our People and Strategy Leadership Team and will shape our strategic evolution by redesigning and leading our people partnering, operations, reward, and business support teams. We’re looking for an experienced HR specialist who has a strong understanding of People Systems along with excellent leadership skills, strategic alignment capabilities and a passion to enhance our culture of partnership, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Ideally, you’ll be based in the East of Scotland so you can easily go to our H/O in Dundee every month for in person meetings with our Exec, leadership, and colleagues. The opportunity is being offered as a 12-month contract working directly for Insights.

Day to day you’ll focus on:

- **People Partnering and Organisation Development**:Develop and coach a high-performing experienced People Partnering team, embed effective ways of working to develop and sustain high-performing teams. Supporting the partnering team as strategic people partners who drive organisational effectiveness, employee engagement and leadership development and ensure performance and people plans are in place and supported through constructive conversations to embed accountability, foster high performance, and identify talent.
- **Strategic Alignment and Collaboration**:Collaborate closely with the Director of People & Strategy to align people initiatives and partner with key stakeholders to drive change management initiatives and facilitate organisational growth and development.
- **People Systems Transformation**:Drive the transformation of people systems to streamline and optimise transactional processes and create capacity for People Partners to focus on value-adding, strategic activities and ensure the effective and efficient operation of reward and payroll processes
- **People Processes and Policies**:Evolve and optimise people processes and policies to align with the organisation's growth ambitions, promoting agility, fairness, and inclusivity along with continuously reviewing and enhancing HR practices to drive employee engagement, retention, and organisational effectiveness.
- **Executive Business Support**: Providing guidance to the Business Support Team to deliver effective, aligned, and efficient services to the executive team and across the organisation as well as providing mentorship, guidance, and support to team members.

**What you’ll bring**
- As a senior leader you’ll bring motivation, inspiration and a focus on the development and growth of your team.
- Demonstrable expertise in Organisation Development, People Partnering and act as the ambassador for change by demonstrating good practice and building capability and competence across the teams you manage
- Significant leadership experience in HR, learning and development, organisational effectiveness, or related fields.
- An understanding of HR systems and processes, with experience in leading system implementations and process improvements.
- A proven track record in developing and implementing HR policies, procedures, and programmes that support organisational objectives and compliance requirements
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business objectives into actionable HR strategies and initiatives.
- Results-oriented with a focus on driving performance and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.

**Why Insights?**
Insights is fast-paced and exciting place to work where we truly want to have an impact on the world and create a unique employee experience. We have 18 global offices, operate in over 50 countries around the world in more than 11 languages. We have over 650k learners per year, and our clients range from local start-up compani

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