Employee Experience Director - #1745924

Salary up to £90,000 pa.

Base location: Eltham, south London.

Will consider Birmingham and Manchester locations.

Who are Baily Garner?

With nearly 50 years of experience, Baily Garner LLP is a leading multidisciplinary construction consultancy with over 250 employees and offices in Eltham, Manchester, and Birmingham-delivering national coverage. We provide a full suite of services including Architecture, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, M&E Engineering, Sustainability Consulting, and more.

Our purpose is to positively impact people's lives. We achieve this by delivering exceptional service and creating opportunities that make a real difference-for our clients, end users, our people, and the planet.

For our Employee Experience team this means our people. As an Employee Experience Director, you'll lead our dedicated HR operations, Learning & Development, and Front of House teams (which includes our facilities), driving initiatives to ensure that we can grow with speed whilst migrating as much as possible against "growing pains" to ensure we sustain our culture of excellence and high performance. We've already achieved 'The Sunday Times Best Places to Work' status - what's next?

What You'll Be Doing

Lead a team across People, Front of house and Learning /Development EED with a focus: building a brilliant employee experience focused on growth and change, while aligning people strategy to business goals.

This isn't about tweaking policies. It's about building and scaling a people function that genuinely works for the business and its great people.

• Own the People & Culture strategy - from high-level planning to hands-on delivery.
• Present the annual People Plan and key results to senior leadership aligned to our growth plans.
• Lead on engagement, internal comms, career frameworks, onboarding, and diversity & inclusion.
• Work closely with the Managing partner and senior leaders to advise on people-related decisions.
• Partner with Finance and Governance teams to ensure budgets, behaviours and policies are aligned.
• Oversee organisational design and change, including how teams are structured as the business grows at pace and pivots through both Organic and Inorganic activity.
• Design and evolve career development frameworks to support retention and growth.
• Manage the employee engagement agenda through in-person events and cultural initiatives.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

You don't need to tick every box, but ideally, you'll bring:

• Experience leading people teams in fast growing environments.
• Expert at dealing with change and times of pivoting.
• A mix of strategic leadership and hands-on delivery - you're as comfortable in the weeds as you are in the boardroom. We like to get stuff done.
• A track record of building strong cultures, driving engagement, and embedding values in real, practical ways.
• Experience designing career frameworks, engagement strategies, and comms that land well with teams.
• Empathy, clarity, and a genuine passion for making the people's experience better.
• Confidence working with executive-level stakeholders and the ability to influence at the top table whilst being brave and authentically you!
• Experience designing career frameworks, engagement strategies, and comms that land with teams.
• Empathy, clarity, and a genuine passion for making the people's experience better.
• Promote a frictionless, OnDemand and high customer service approaches, in all you do!
  
  

Plus.

• CIPD Level 5 or above.
• Has proven success in HR leadership roles, with expertise in employee experience, diversity, and neurodiversity.
• Able to use and get even more out of our investment in our HRIS - Hi Bob and ensure this is our 1st stop shop for all data and requests.
• Demonstrates knowledge of UK employment law.
• Combines strategic thinking with a hands-on, people-first approach.
• Excels in communication, data analysis, and building strong relationships.
  
  

What We Offer:

A highly competitive package and this position has the potential for the right candidate to develop in the organisation and grow with us through ongoing training and development opportunities.

Benefits Package - from day 1:

• Flexible and Hybrid ways of working, we focus on outputs and like to see people.
• 30 days annual leave on top of 8 x bank holidays
• Medicash health plan
• Life assurance cover (4 x times annual salary) for all colleagues
• Take your birthday off!
• Buy/Sell Annual Leave
• Biannual salary reviews
• Professional development scheme
• Sponsorship of professional fees
• 2 paid corporate social responsibility days
  
  

Time scales:

w/c 9th of June - 1st stage with line manager via teams

w/c 16th of June - 2nd stage in person meeting at Eltham offices

w/c 30th of June - Final stage panel presentation in person at Eltham offices

Offer by 4th of July and to commence in role asap.

Baily Garner LLP are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity/paternity needs.

We are committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made at any stage, please let us know.

Example: If you need additional time for assessments, require materials in an alternative format, or need a different interview setting, please inform us, and we will make the necessary arrangements.