Hybrid People Director, EMEA

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About the role

  • People Director leading People Strategy across Influencer, a global creator marketing agency. Focusing on fostering a high-performance culture and enhancing employee experience.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the people strategy aligned with Influencer’s growth plans
  • In partnership with the ELT and in support of the CEO, CVO and Presidents you will translate people strategy into actionable regional priorities
  • Champion our culture, ensuring it evolves with scale while staying true to our values
  • Act as a trusted advisor to the ELT on people, talent, culture, and organisational design
  • Own the full employee lifecycle - from attraction and onboarding, to performance and progression, to offboarding and alumni engagement
  • Build a people experience that drives high engagement and industry-leading eNPS
  • Lead initiatives that position Influencer as an employer of choice, strengthening Glassdoor and external perception
  • Oversee the design and delivery of hyper efficient learning and development programmes to support career growth
  • Lead Talent Acquisition for EMEA, ensuring we hire and retain the best and right (aligned with our values) talent across our offices
  • Build scalable structures in partnership with the CFO to support expansion, balancing speed with sustainable growth
  • Drive succession planning, leadership development, and internal mobility
  • Oversee compensation benchmarking and pay strategies to remain competitive and equitable
  • Simplify and enhance performance management frameworks, enabling managers to lead with efficiency and accountability
  • Partner with leadership to build out simple and succinct career frameworks, pathways, and recognition programmes
  • Drive low lift adoption of learning systems, manager enablement, and leadership coaching
  • Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion across all policies, processes, and behaviours
  • Champion initiatives that foster belonging, creativity, and well-being
  • Actively measure and act upon employee sentiment through tools such as Hibob and Bonusly
  • Ensure our culture scales consistently across regions, while respecting local nuance
  • Oversee global HRBP functions in EMEA
  • Optimise the people tech stack (Hibob, Teamtailor, Guru, FutureProof, Ninety, Ravio, Zinc & Bonusly) for seamless employee experience
  • Ensure compliance with local employment law and regulatory requirements across all EMEA regions

Requirements

  • Proven senior people leadership experience in a high-growth business (digital media, technology or marketing preferred)
  • Demonstrated success in building people functions
  • Experience leading teams across HRBP, L&D, and Talent Acquisition
  • Deep expertise in employee engagement, culture-building, and organisational development
  • Commercial mindset - balancing people priorities with business objectives
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of influencing at the highest levels
  • Strong familiarity with UK employment law
  • Empathy, emotional intelligence, and a human-led approach to leadership
  • Experience evolving people platforms, processes, and policies for scale

Benefits

  • Private Healthcare through Vitality
  • Wellbeing support through Vitality including EAP & Mental Health cover
  • 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays which can be flexed to your needs)

Job title

People Director, EMEA

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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