Senior Global HR Director - Corporate Functions

Overview: Element has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Global HR Director - Corporate Functions to partner with the Functional Leaders and their team to provide strong leadership in the execution of high quality, consistent Element People processes across the functions including Recruiting & Onboarding, Performance Management, Organization & Talent Development, Compensation Planning & Reviews
In this role , you will be supporting a positive change management culture in alignment with the overall Element customer centric strategy. As a member of the Senior HR Leadership Team, the HRD is expected to participate and collaborate on various strategic and tactical HR projects with other HRDs
You will be based in London Head Office Covent Garden (Hybrid 3 days)
Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Chief Financial Officer, Chief People Officer, General Counsel, Group Director Communications, EVP Commercial Excellence, EVP Corporate Development, EVP, Chief Digital & Technology, and their leadership teams globally
• Provide strategic HR direction, build high performing teams, and infuse a culture of customer-centricity, accountability, and career development
• Manage a team of two HRBP’s and dotted reporting line for Talent Acquisition Managers, establishing and executing talent development plans
• Drive employee engagement initiatives and implement programmes ensuring positive, compliant, productive employee relations environment
• Ensure employee compensation competitiveness in internal as well as external market by partnering with Element global Compensation & Benefits
• Anticipate and plan for long-term human resource needs and trends in partnership with leaders while preparing and managing senior level Service Agreements, Settlements, Redundancies

Skills / Qualifications:

• Extensive experience as a HR Director essential, ideally within fast paced, commercial multi-site organisations
• Suitably qualified with either a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, and CIPD or equivalent preferred
• Extensive knowledge and experience of relevant employment policy and legislation along with substantial proven performance in delivering solutions across the employee lifecycle
• Effective leadership skills with an ability to motivate, support and develop team members
• Results driven strategic thinker having excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Demonstrated communication, interpersonal, and change management skills
• Strong personal values corresponding with Element Values
• Willingness and ability to travel at least 20%

#LI-AR1 Company Overview: Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 7,500 brilliant minds operating from 200 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.
When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.
While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.
Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization. Diversity Statement: At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.
All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.