Director of People & Culture

Employer: Impact Futures Group  

Location: A blend between working from home and travelling occasionally for meetings.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week 

Salary: up to £70k

• Job description

  Are you passionate about turning people strategy into real, measurable impact?
  Do you thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments where change is constant?
  Can you shape a culture that not only supports performance but drives it?
  
  Impact Futures Group have a brand new opportunity for a strategic and talented individual to join our People Team as Director of People & Culture. The role is hybrid, a blend between working from home and travelling occasionally for meetings. Salary offered is up to £70k per year. 
  
  The Role:
  As a Director of People & Culture, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the people agenda within a fast-growing, private equity-backed independent training provider. This role will report directly to the Chief People Officer, you will lead the design and execution of key people and culture initiatives that support rapid growth, organisational transformation, and value creation. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership role; ideal for someone who thrives on turning strategy into action at pace.
  
  What You’ll Be Doing

  Culture & Engagement
  - Lead the delivery of culture initiatives that reinforce organisational values, behaviours, and performance expectations
  - Partner with the CPO to embed values into everyday practices, leadership behaviours, and performance conversations
  - Drive employee engagement, listening strategies, and action planning aligned to business priorities

  Succession & Workforce Planning
  - Support in the design and delivery of robust succession planning processes to build leadership depth and future capability
  - Lead workforce planning activities to ensure the organisation has the right skills, capacity, and structure to support growth
  - Use insight and data to inform talent decisions and future investment

  Leadership & Capability Development
  - Support on the design and implementation of leadership development programmes aligned to organisational needs
  - Support leaders at all levels to build capability in people leadership, performance management, and change
  - Partner closely with the business to identify critical capability gaps and development priorities

  Learning & Development
  - Own and evolve the organisation’s learning and development strategy, aligned to business goals and growth plans
  - Lead the design and delivery of capability-building programmes across leadership, management, and functional skills
  - Embed learning into the flow of work, ensuring development is practical, accessible, and measurable
  - Oversee development pathways for key roles, supporting progression, retention, and internal mobility
  - Evaluate the impact of learning initiatives and continuously improve based on outcomes and feedback

  Wellbeing & Employee Experience
  - Own and evolve the organisation’s wellbeing strategy, ensuring it is practical, inclusive, and impactful
  - Embed wellbeing into ways of working, leadership practices, and people policies
  - Champion a positive employee experience across the full lifecycle

  Change Management & M&A Support
  - Provide hands-on change management support for organisational transformation initiatives
  - Play a key role in M&A activity, supporting people integration and cultural alignment
  - Drive rapid realisation of people and culture synergies following acquisitions, balancing pace with engagement

  Stakeholder Partnership
  - Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, supporting them through growth, complexity, and change
  - Collaborate closely with the wider People team to ensure joined-up delivery across the people agenda
  - Support the CPO with board- and investor-level people initiatives as required

  What Success Looks Like
  - Culture initiatives are clearly understood, lived, and reinforced through leadership behaviour
  - Succession and workforce plans are in place for critical roles and future growth
  - Leaders are better equipped, more confident, and more consistent in how they lead people
  - Acquisitions are integrated quickly with minimal disruption and strong cultural alignment
  - Employees feel supported, engaged, and clear on expectations during periods of change
  
  You’ll be joining a leading national training provider at an exciting time of growth and expansion, working in a fun and supportive environment in an organisation with a strong focus on people and culture.

  Expect regular catch-ups and socials with your team, surprises in the post and company-wide social events- we’re a friendly bunch.

  The Benefits
  - 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays
  - Buy an additional 5 days annual leave
  - Birthday day off
  - Christmas Shut down with three days paid leave
  - Volunteer day
  - Wellbeing day
  - Enhanced Sick Pay
  - BUPA Healthcare Cashback plan
  - Enhanced Maternity paid leave
  - Enhanced Paternity paid leave
  - Grandparent paid leave
  - Bereavement paid leave
  - Life Assurance
  - Refer a friend bonus (£1,000)
  - Electric Car Scheme 
  - 3% pension contribution using pension provider NEST
  - Shopping discount & cash back platform
  - Employee Financial Wellbeing support
  - Employee Assistance Helpline
  - Company events and social gatherings
  - Appreciation gifts

  About you:
  

  Essential
  - Significant experience in a senior People / HR leadership role
  - Proven track record of delivering culture and engagement initiatives
  - Strong experience in succession planning and workforce planning
  - Demonstrable experience supporting organisational change and transformation
  - Experience supporting M&A integration, ideally in a PE-backed or high-growth environment
  - Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

  Desirable
  - Experience within education, training, professional services, or similarly people-centric sectors
  - Exposure to PE-backed environments or fast-growth organisations
  - Experience designing or delivering leadership development programmes

  Personal Attributes
  - Commercially minded with a strong delivery focus
  - Comfortable operating at pace in a changing environment
  - Solutions-focused, and resilient
  - Credible and confident working with senior leaders
  - Values-led, with a genuine passion for people and culture
  
  About Us
  - Impact Futures Group is one of the UK’s largest independently owned training providers, delivering apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.
  - Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 'Good’ accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey
  - We are the 23rd best large employer in the UK and the 6th best education provider.
  - We have been awarded a prestigious 2-star accreditation for been an outstanding company to work for
  - We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitability qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age
  - We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role

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