HR Director

HR Director

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in 30+ countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We combine deep consulting expertise, growth specialization, and technology to scale impact. We optimize every lever of commercial strategy – product, pricing, innovation, marketing, sales, and digital – based on deep insights into what customers value and are willing to pay for. With over 40 years of experience in monetization, we are regarded as the world's leading commercial growth and pricing specialist.

Leading and managing the UK HR team, you will shape and drive the HR agenda at country level, acting as a strategic partner to local leadership while ensuring alignment with global priorities. This is an end to end role, covering delivery to team management to strategy, and reports to the Regional Head of HR (who is also UK-based).

How you will create impact:

• HR Strategy & Leadership: Partner with country leadership to define and execute the local HR strategy, aligned with global objectives and business priorities
• HR Business Partnering: Continue to build and strengthen a high-impact HR Business Partnering approach within the country (including directly Business Partnering a Division within the UK as part of your role), ensuring close alignment with business needs and enabling leaders to drive performance, engagement, and growth
• End-to-End Talent Management: Lead and oversee the full employee lifecycle, including our evaluation cycles, workforce planning, supporting our UK recruiters, onboarding, development, and retention
• Staffing & Workforce Planning: Oversee the staffing function, managing the Staffing Manager and ensuring strong alignment between staffing decisions and HR business partnering priorities – building both development and performance for consultants at all levels
• Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders—including Country leadership, Finance, and Group HR teams—across all UK HR-related matters
• Separations & Offboarding: Manage employee relations topics and ensure structured, compliant offboarding processes, including terminations
• Compensation & Benefits: Provide country-level inputs to compensation processes, including salary reviews, bonus cycles, and associated communications, ensuring alignment with company frameworks. Drive a strong value-for-money approach across country-defined pay and benefits, balancing competitiveness with cost-effectiveness.
• Governance, Policies & Compliance: Deploy and embed Group HR policies, standards, and approaches within the local market, ensuring compliance with UK employment law. In close collaboration with Group HR, contribute to the development and refinement of HR policies where required
• Group HR Enablement: Maximise the leverage of Group HR offerings, tools, and programmes to ensure maximum impact and consistency for UK-based staff while adapting to local needs where appropriate
• Health & Safety: Input to health and safety standards and compliance within the country, ensuring a safe and supportive working environment
• Reporting: Leverage HR data, analytics and AI tools to generate insights to support decision making by local leadership (with AI deployed to the extent permitted by SK)

Your profile:

• You will bring a strong combination of strategic thinking and operational excellence, with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in HR Business Partnering within a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Experience within a professional services environment (e.g. consulting, law, private equity etc)
• Proven track record of managing a high-performing team delivering end-to-end HR processes, including senior hiring and active performance management
• Experience in closely collaborating with staffing/workforce planning functions to ensure excellent development trajectories
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and demonstrated ability to translate legal requirements into practical HR policies and processes
• Strong knowledge of HR systems (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors) and digital tools (e.g. MS Excel, PowerPoint, Teams); experience with data analysis
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility at senior levels
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and service-driven, with a proactive and solution-focused mindset
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage complex topics independently
• Belief in the value that diversity brings, particularly within a consulting environment

What we offer:

• Work within a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
• Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning opportunities
• Push your development with support from our holistic feedback and development processes
• Hybrid work, mixing your work location between our London office and the option to remote work for an element of your time
• Enjoy our range of benefits and our focus on your wellbeing