What is the role of a HR director?

What is the role of a HR director?

An HR Director is the person who oversees all things related to the employee lifecycle and workplace culture. Their job is to create a people plan that will support the delivery of your strategic business plan. ensuring your team is happy, motivated, and working well together. An HR Director helps build your employer brand and employee value proposition to attract and retain the right people – i.e. they help make your business an attractive place to work through reward, recognition and development processes and help bring in the right people to the right roles to support growth.

Here’s what an HR Director typically does:

1. Assessing the landscape of the organisation to identify where people interventions are necessary to achieve your planned growth – the right people in the right seats
2. Advising on where and how to reshape your business to establish the right structure with the right people in it, to move forward.

3. Hiring the right people: They help you find, hire, and keep the best talent for your company, making sure you have the right team in place.

4. Building a positive work environment: They work on creating a great company culture where employees feel valued, engaged, and motivated.

5. Leadership development: They set up training and development programs to help your whole team grow their skills and advance in their careers, from new hires to leaders.

6. Paying people correctly: They assess your pay structures and ensure they are set up to retain your staff and to incentivise and reward positive behaviours that benefit the business.

7. Ensuring legal compliance: They make sure your company follows all the right people processes, so you avoid any legal troubles.

8. Solving people problems: in our experience, people problems are one of the biggest reasons clients approach us in the first instance, to help with difficult conversations, structural change, and performance management.

For a growing business, an HR Director can be a key player in building a strong, happy team and a positive company culture, which in turn helps your business succeed, while also taking away the burden of people issues from other senior leaders to create bandwidth and enable commercial growth.