Reporting to the Global HR Director, the Head of HR is a senior HR leadership role responsible for defining and executing the people strategy across key global functions. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive and senior business leaders, this role will drive organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce planning, talent strategy, culture, and transformation initiatives that enable business growth. The successful candidate will partner closely with HR Centres of Excellence, Regional HR teams, and business leadership to ensure the effective delivery of strategic people outcomes across multiple geographies.
About the role
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior and executive leaders, shaping people strategies that drive business performance, organisational effectiveness, and long-term growth across global functions.
- Partner with business leaders to design and deliver talent strategies covering workforce planning, succession planning, leadership development, performance management, employee engagement, and capability building.
- Lead organisational design and effectiveness initiatives to ensure structures, capabilities, and ways of working align with evolving business priorities and future growth.
- Drive large-scale transformation, organisational change, and restructuring initiatives, ensuring successful adoption, measurable outcomes, and sustainable business impact.
- Coach and influence leaders to build high-performing, inclusive teams and foster a culture aligned with Dyson's values and leadership expectations.
- Collaborate closely with HR Centres of Excellence, Talent Acquisition, Learning, Reward, Employee Relations, and regional HR teams to deliver integrated people solutions and a consistent employee experience globally.
- Provide leadership and governance across the employee lifecycle, ensuring compliance with HR policies, legal requirements, and best-practice people frameworks across multiple markets.
- Leverage workforce analytics, talent insights, and organisational data to identify trends, inform decision-making, and provide strategic recommendations to leadership.
- Lead and sponsor high-impact global HR initiatives and people transformation programmes that advance Dyson's people agenda and strengthen organisational capability.
- Contribute as a member of the broader HR leadership team, helping shape enterprise-wide people priorities, operating models, and the future direction of the People function.
About you
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant Human Resources Business Partnering experience supporting senior executives and global organisations.
- Demonstrated success leading people strategies within complex, matrixed, and fast-growing multinational environments.
- Deep expertise in organisational design, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and change management.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect people strategies to business performance and growth objectives.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing, and executive coaching skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and build credibility at all levels.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives and managing ambiguity in dynamic environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with experience leveraging workforce analytics to drive strategic decisions.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and influence diverse global audiences.
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a highly innovative, fast-paced, and continuously evolving organisation.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant HR Business Partner experience supporting senior executives and global organizations.
- Experience leading people strategies in complex, matrixed, and fast-growing multinational environments.
- Expertise in organizational design, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and change management.
- Strong commercial acumen connecting people strategies to business performance and growth objectives.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing, and executive coaching skills.
- Experience leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives and managing ambiguity.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, including workforce analytics experience.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills for engaging diverse global audiences.
- Resilience, adaptability, and comfort working in an innovative, fast-paced, evolving organization.
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
