Group Director of People

Group Director of People

Location: Hybrid (London, Birmingham or Manchester) | Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Reports to: Group COO | Travel: Regular travel across the UK

Shape the future of people at Continua Learning Group

Continua Learning Group brings together First Intuition, Decoded and SkillsLab, supporting learners and professionals throughout their careers. With around 650 colleagues, 23 locations and the backing of a PE investor, we're entering an exciting period of growth and transformation.

We're looking for an experienced Group Director of People to build and deliver our Group People strategy, lead a high-performing People function and partner closely with leaders across our businesses to enable growth, performance and an outstanding colleague experience.

The Role

As our senior People leader, you will:

• Develop and deliver a Group-wide People strategy aligned to business growth and performance.

• Lead People & HR as a high-performing Group Service across talent acquisition, business partnering, L&D, reward, employee relations, payroll, systems and operations.

• Partner with business-unit leaders to develop workforce plans, organisational structures and leadership capability.

• Balance Group-wide consistency with the flexibility individual businesses need to succeed.

• Advise the Board and senior leadership teams on culture, succession, organisational effectiveness and people risk.

• Lead initiatives that strengthen engagement, leadership, talent and colleague experience across the Group.

• Define and evolve the Group People operating model, including determining where Group-wide standards are appropriate and where business-unit flexibility should be retained.

About You

You'll bring:

• Significant senior HR/People leadership experience, ideally within a high-growth or private equity-backed environment.

• A strong track record of developing and delivering People strategy at executive level.

• Experience leading a shared or Group People function across multiple businesses or locations.

• A background in organisation design, workforce planning and supporting transformation/growth initiatives.

• Excellent commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong knowledge of UK employment law, employee relations, reward and People operations.

• CIPD Level 6+ or equivalent professional experience.

Above all, you'll be a pragmatic, collaborative leader who enjoys partnering with businesses to solve problems, build capability and deliver results.

What We Offer

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• 3 additional company nominated days

• Hybrid and flexible working

• Private medical insurance

• Competitive pension and life assurance

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

• Employee discounts and wellbeing support

Join Us

This is a unique opportunity to shape the People agenda of a growing Group while helping our businesses retain the individuality and strengths that make them successful. You can look at our interim new website that provides further information on the brands here: https://www.continualearninggroup.com/

If you're an experienced People leader ready to make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting young people and vulnerable adults and follow Safer Recruitment processes. All successful candidates will need to complete a DBS check, with some roles requiring an Enhanced check. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All staff are expected to share this commitment and adhere to our Safeguarding and Prevent Policy, which can be viewed here.  

First Intuition does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.