Senior Director – IT Business Partner, HR

Overview

In this role you partner with HR leadership to drive AI- and technology-powered transformation of how people are recruited, developed, served and empowered. You will translate HR strategy into actionable technology roadmaps, scale AI initiatives, and lead a product-centered HR IT team within a global, matrixed organisation. You’ll shape the HR platform ecosystem and orchestrate partner ecosystems to deliver measurable value across talent, learning, workforce planning and employee experience.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work arrangement with in-office days
• flexible working options
• opportunity to shape global HR technology strategy
• senior executive exposure and strategic impact
• global scale and high-impact programmes
• focus on innovation and continuous learning

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technology and transformation partner to the HR Leadership Team and Heads of COEs
• Translate HR challenges into outcome-driven technology strategies and multi-year roadmaps
• Lead enterprise-grade AI and digital initiatives across HR from proof of concept to sustained value
• Identify and scale high-impact AI, agentic automation and analytics use cases across talent acquisition, learning, performance, people analytics and employee services
• Set strategy for HR platform estate (Workday, ServiceNow HRSD, Eightfold) and scout next-gen capabilities
• Reshape HR IT workforce into a high-calibre, product-centric operating model with empowered product teams
• Define skills and career paths for future team (product ownership, AI, data, platform architecture)
• Establish value measurement with HR and Finance and report on benefits and adoption
• Own HR data integrity, privacy and security within AI initiatives
• Lead partnerships with vendors, outsourcing and system integrators to ensure outcomes and innovation
• Champion change management and digital upskilling within HR and IT
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning and external market insight
• Oversee investment portfolio governance and business cases linked to HR outcomes
• Ensure data-driven employee experience across HR processes and platforms
• Demonstrate IT value through data-led storytelling and case studies
• Co-own adoption and benefits realisation with HR

Key requirements

• 15+ years of senior technology leadership in large, global organisations
• Executive partnership with CHRO and Heads of COEs delivering AI/analytics-enabled solutions
• Proven success delivering large-scale AI and technology transformation in HR
• Experience leading enterprise HR platforms or programmes (Workday, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow HRSD)
• Experience owning investment portfolios, benefit cases and transformation roadmaps in matrix environments
• Experience managing strategic vendors and outsourcing/PS partners
• Experience transitioning tech teams to product-centric operating models and scaling talent
• Track record of communicating tech value to executives with outcomes and benefits evidence
• Motivational, achievement-oriented leadership of cross-functional teams

• Executive presence
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Change leadership and stakeholder management
• AI, generative and agentic AI
• Automation and RPA in HR
• Natural language processing

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