HR Director

About the job you’re considering

Capgemini UK is seeking a highly experienced HR Director to support one of its most strategically significant business areas. Reporting directly to the UK HR Director and with a dotted line into the Head of the Market Unit, this is a pivotal leadership role within the UK HR function.

The successful candidate will shape and lead the Market Unit's people agenda, delivering a workforce strategy that aligns with business goals, supports client engagement, and ensures long-term organisational capability.This is a hands-on and strategic role requiring depth in transformation, workforce planning, talentmanagement, employee relations, and stakeholder influence.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.  You will be expected to be onsite in Telford 3 days per week.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

As a strategic HR Director, you will be responsible for driving and championing both country and business-led initiatives within the Market Unit (MU). You will be responsible for:

• Acting as a strategic HR partner on major client engagements, bids, and transitions.
• Coaching senior leaders and embed consistent talent standards.
• Navigating complex employee relations and industrial landscapes.
• Championing digital HR tools, automation, and AI for smarter service delivery.
• Leading strategic workforce planning and succession for critical roles.
• Driving culture, engagement, and DEI across hybrid, distributed teams.
• Using data and analytics to inform decisions and demonstrate impact.
• Representing Capgemini HR in external forums and industry bodies.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• A strategic mindset with a hands-on approach to execution.
• Significant experience in a senior HR leadership role within complex, matrixed organisations — ideally in IT services or consulting.
• Strong business acumen and a proven ability to influence and coach senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success in driving change, building high-performing teams, and navigating complex employee relations landscapes.
• Deep expertise in talent management, workforce transformation, engagement, and culture-building.
• Strong understanding of the public sector or regulated environments is advantageous.
• Experience managing a population of 2,000+ employees, with a focus on agility, scalability, and business impact.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and commercial judgment.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect people strategies to business performance, cost drivers, and client outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead HR transformation initiatives, including operating model redesign, digital enablement, and capability uplift.
• Skilled in leveraging people analytics and workforce data to drive strategic decisions and demonstrate HR value.
• Experience in managing HR governance, compliance, and risk frameworks across diverse business units.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. 

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Your wellbeing 
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 

Impactful Experiences
You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. 

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