HR Director

Our Company

Position Overview

Global Scope

• Establishing and delivering a global people strategy aligned with EOS’s business strategy, growth plans and organisational priorities.
• Creating a consistent global HR operating model, with clear governance, accountability and service standards across regions.
• Leading HR strategy and service delivery across a workforce of 2,800+ employees globally.
• Partnering with executive and senior leaders on global workforce planning, organisational design, capability, succession and business growth.
• Leading and developing geographically dispersed HR teams and regional HR leadership.
• Establishing global HR policies, frameworks and standards while ensuring appropriate localisation for legislation and market requirements.
• Supporting EOS’s expansion into new countries, including establishing employing entities and appropriate local HR infrastructure.
• Selecting and managing employer-of-record, outsourced payroll, benefits and other employment providers where appropriate.
• Providing strategic oversight of global employment compliance and ensuring appropriate specialist expertise is engaged across jurisdictions.
• Managing the people implications of employees working at client sites or outside their employing country.
• Leading the people aspects of acquisitions, integrations, restructures and employee transfers, including TUPE and equivalent requirements.
• Providing global oversight of works councils, employee consultation, data protection and employment reporting requirements.
• Ensuring readiness for emerging employment requirements, including EU pay transparency legislation.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant country requirements, including Northern Ireland fair employment registration, monitoring and annual returns and Ireland’s MyFutureFund pension auto-enrolment requirements.
• Travelling internationally when required and operating effectively across global time zones.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, own and deliver EOS’s global people strategy, ensuring HR priorities directly support the organisation’s commercial strategy and continued international growth.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner to executive and senior leadership, providing insight, challenge and guidance on people, organisation and workforce matters.
• Lead and develop EOS’s global HR function, creating a high-performing, connected team across NAMER, LATAM, EMEA and APAC.
• Establish a clear global HR operating model, defining accountabilities, governance, service delivery and regional responsibilities.
• Create global frameworks for the employee lifecycle while ensuring effective localisation where legislation, culture or business requirements demand it.
• Partner with leaders on global workforce planning, organisational design, talent requirements, succession and organisational capability.
• Lead strategic workforce planning to ensure EOS has the skills, leadership and organisational structures required to meet future business needs.
• Oversee employee relations, payroll, pensions, benefits, reward, recruitment, performance and talent development across the global organisation.
• Provide senior-level guidance on complex employee relations matters, including grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, restructures and organisational change.
• Develop a globally consistent approach to performance, talent and leadership development, supporting internal mobility, succession and career development across regions.
• Establish compliant HR operations when EOS enters new countries, including employment models, payroll, benefits, policies, employment documentation and local HR support.
• Evaluate and manage employer-of-record, payroll and other third-party employment providers, ensuring appropriate standards of service, compliance, cost management and employee experience.
• Maintain effective global HR policies and processes that reflect EOS’s values while meeting relevant local legislative requirements.
• Ensure effective governance of employment law, data protection, consultation, reporting and employee-transfer obligations internationally.
• Lead the people strategy for acquisitions, integrations and significant organisational change, ensuring effective due diligence, transition and cultural integration.
• Develop global workforce reporting and dashboards covering headcount, turnover, absence, recruitment, workforce costs and other key people indicators.
• Use people data and workforce analytics to identify global trends, organisational risks and opportunities and translate them into actionable business insights.
• Ensure senior leadership has clear visibility of workforce trends, organisational capability and emerging people risks.
• Lead global and regional HR budgeting and workforce-cost planning in partnership with Finance and business leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement of HR services, processes and systems, identifying opportunities for simplification, automation and global standardisation.
• Champion an inclusive, high-performance culture and ensure the employee experience remains connected to EOS’s values as the organisation continues to grow internationally.

What You Need to Succeed

• Significant experience in a senior global HR leadership role within a complex, multinational organisation.
• Demonstrable experience operating across multiple international regions, ideally including NAMER, LATAM, EMEA and APAC.
• Proven experience developing and executing global people strategy aligned with commercial and organisational objectives.
• Experience leading a sizeable, geographically dispersed HR function through regional and local HR leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively with executive and senior leadership teams, influencing business strategy through a people and organisational lens.
• Experience designing and implementing global HR operating models, governance frameworks and scalable HR practices.
• Strong understanding of the challenges involved in balancing global HR standards with local employment legislation, cultural expectations and market practices.
• Experience establishing operations in new countries and determining appropriate employment models, including employing entities and employer-of-record arrangements.
• Strong experience managing complex employee relations, organisational change, acquisitions, integrations and cross-border employee transfers.
• Experience overseeing international payroll, benefits, reward and third-party employment providers.
• Strong understanding of global workforce planning, organisational design, talent management, succession and leadership development.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, with the ability to connect people strategy to business performance, organisational growth and workforce cost.
• Strong analytical capability and experience using workforce data to provide meaningful insight to executive and senior leadership.
• A strategic mindset combined with the ability to remain close enough to operations to ensure effective execution across regions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the credibility to build trusted relationships across different countries, cultures and business functions.
• A degree in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• CIPD Level 7 or an equivalent advanced HR qualification is preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally and work flexibly across global time zones when required.
• High levels of integrity, discretion and commitment to creating an inclusive workplace.

Belonging at EOS