OverviewJob title:

Associate Director, People and Culture

Location:

Hybrid – associated with UK locations: Harlow, Livingston, Gloucester, Glenrothes, Livingston

Raytheon UK aims to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, to enable us to meet our customer needs which in turn helps drive business growth and innovation. We base this on creating an inclusive environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do the best work of their lives.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director, People and Culture to shape and embed our enterprise-wide strategy to enable business growth as part of our People Strategy.

We are looking for a leader who can understand our matrix business, move with agility between strategy and delivery, with a focus on moving our organisation forward. This role will work across our matrix structure to deliver across our employee life cycle (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Organisational Design, Organisational Effectiveness) collaborating across our Centres of Expertise (COE’s). Aligning it to a common culture and expectation of inclusive behaviour, and support People and Culture Partners being the face of it to their functions.

The fun part of this role: you will be part of a team who are dedicated to alignment and enablement of our inclusive culture and connection to our mission.

This role will report to the People and Culture Director.

What you can bring to the team will be deep subject matter expertise in all aspects of people consulting to advise and support colleagues and business leaders. This exciting new role covers two main client groups: products and operations. We are looking for a candidate who is motivated and energised to shape the future of our organisation.

Responsibilities

Shape and embed the enterprise-wide People Strategy to enable business growth

Deliver across the employee lifecycle (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Organisational Design, Organisational Effectiveness)

Collaborate across Centres of Expertise to align to a common culture and inclusive behaviours

Support People and Culture Partners in being the face of People and Culture to their functions

Operate with agility in a matrix environment to drive impact across the organisation

Work with business leaders to diagnose needs, shape solutions, and influence decisions using data

Qualifications

Strong business acumen for understanding business priorities, opportunities and challenges, and external influencing factors.

Ability to understand and analyse data to influence key decision making.

Experience evolving a talent strategy through diagnostic thinking, needs analyses and data analysis, managing expectations, building collaborative relationships, and challenging constructively with a point of view.

Experience building talent strategies, including high potential identification and acceleration, assessment, succession planning, career development planning and talent movement.

Change management skills to help the business plan and lead change effectively by using consulting skills and providing relevant change frameworks and tools.

Strong project management skills to ensure completion and implementation of projects or programs on time and within budget.

Strong coaching and influencing skills.

Ability to recognise where senior leaders need challenged and be comfortable to challenge the status quo, ingrained cultures and behaviours.

Ability to problem solve effectively, using data and other means to present business cases to a broad client group.

Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment legislation and its application, particularly around TUPE regulations.

Comfortable working in a matrix environment.

Position details

Seniority level:

Mid-Senior level

Employment type:

Full-time

Job function:

Business Development, Sales, and Human Resources

Industries:

Defense and Space Manufacturing

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