Head of HR

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Team Overview

The UK & Europe HR team delivers coordinated HR support across the region, translating business and global HR priorities into clear regional plans. The multidisciplinary team covers HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, working closely with HR Centres of Excellence and shared-service teams to provide a high-quality colleague and manager experience.
This role reports into the CHRO for UK & Europe. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

 

Role Overview And Core Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate HR activities across the UK and Europe, ensuring that business and global HR priorities are delivered effectively and consistently.
• Lead the regional HR team across HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and alignment.
• Oversee annual HR cycles, including performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession-planning processes.
• Partner with business leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, organisational change, and people-related transformation and integration activities.
• Maintain oversight of complex employee relations matters, employment law developments, regulatory requirements, policy updates, audits, and wider people-related risks.
• Oversee immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Coordinate regional benefits, recognition, wellbeing, and employee-experience programmes.
• Collaborate with the global HR Business Partner community, Centres of Excellence, and shared-service teams to implement enterprise programmes while meeting local legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Maintain effective service relationships with People Services, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, and other HR delivery teams, using governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor performance, escalate issues, and support continuous improvement.
• Manage regional HR projects, budgets, risks, dependencies, and governance activities while acting as a trusted HR partner to leaders and supporting the CHRO’s strategic priorities.

 

Required Knowledge And Experiences

• Significant HR generalist experience gained within an international environment, with the ability to coordinate HR activity across multiple countries and stakeholder groups.
• Broad HR expertise spanning business partnering, employee relations, talent management, benefits, organisational change, and employee experience.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, regulatory, audit, and people-risk matters.
• Experience working with HR Centres of Excellence, People Services, and shared-service delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing regional and global priorities.

Required Technical Skills

• Knowledge of UK employment law and the legal, regulatory, and operational considerations affecting HR delivery.
• Experience overseeing immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
• Strong programme and project-management capabilities, including managing budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, and multiple workstreams.
• Ability to support annual HR processes covering performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession planning.
• Ability to use governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor service performance, escalate issues, and drive continuous improvement.

We’re also looking for the preferred skills below. Whether you are proficient or could use some brushing up, we’re happy to support your career development and growth in:

• Experience working in a matrixed and regulated organisation.
• Knowledge of or experience supporting employment matters across European jurisdictions.
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualification or an equivalent professional qualification.

What’s in it for you?

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business. As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days annual leave and bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off and a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme and access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care and a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion – a place to grow:

If there’s something on the list of essential or desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that stop you from applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful. We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together.

Flexibility at TU:

We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:

At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting [email protected].

Interview & Hiring Process:

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview, your recruiter will inform you of this.

We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies.  If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL, our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

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TransUnion Overview:

At TransUnion, we encourage and are committed to creating a real, positive impact and shared sense of purpose within our Workforce for Good, which empowers our people to grow, innovate and contribute to a better future for our communities and customers. We strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver’s seat of their professional development— while having access to help along the way. We recognize that success comes when our associates thrive both professionally and personally; that’s why we prioritize work/life flexibility and offer resources for our teams across the globe to collaborate and drive excellence.

Be a part of our Workforce for Good – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Manager, Human Resources