What’s been key to our success? Our people—we value everyone’s unique perspective and energy they bring to the organization. We collaborate openly across teams and borders. We embrace a growth mindset to get results. And we celebrate shared success as goals and milestones are achieved.
Ready to join a team where innovation meets collaboration? If you're driven by bold ideas and a customer-centric mentality, your next adventure starts here!
The HR Generalist plays a dual role across HR Business Partnering and Talent Acquisition. Acting as a strategic advisor to managers and a recruitment partner, this role ensures we attract, hire, develop, and retain high-performing talent aligned with business priorities.
This is a professional-level HR role requiring full-cycle recruitment expertise and experience partnering with managers on workforce planning and organisational effectiveness. The position contributes to people strategy, performance enablement, and employee engagement across the UK and wider EMEA region.
Key Responsibilities
1. Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning
- Lead end-to-end recruitment processes for professional and technical roles
- Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, competencies, and workforce plans
- Develop proactive sourcing strategies across UK and EU markets
- Ensure recruitment processes are inclusive and aligned with best practice
- Manage agency relationships and recruitment budgets
- Provide guidance to managers on employee relations matters, performance conversations, and people development
- Support managers with organisational design, restructuring, and change initiatives
- Partner with leaders to drive employee engagement and retention strategies
- Analyse HR metrics (turnover, time-to-hire, engagement data) to inform decision-making
- Oversee onboarding and probation processes
- Support learning and development initiatives
- Facilitate performance review cycles
- Contribute to succession planning discussions
- Maintain accurate HR documentation and reporting
- Contribute to continuous improvement of HR processes and policies
- Support audit and governance requirements
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in HR and/or Talent Acquisition roles
- Experience operating in a business partnering capacity
- Experience managing full-cycle recruitment independently
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or related field
- Experience working in a matrix or international organisation
- Fluent English (written and verbal)
- Knowledge of at least one additional EU language (e.g., German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch) is a strong plus
- Experience supporting multi-country EMEA populations
- Experience in technology or SaaS environment
- Data-driven mindset with HR analytics exposure
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to balance operational delivery with strategic thinking
- Sound judgement and discretion with confidential matters
- Commercial awareness
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Organised, proactive, and solutions-oriented
What We Do
Board’s Intelligent Planning Platform delivers solutions that help over 2,000 organizations worldwide plan smarter — enabling actionable insights and better outcomes. Board helps leading enterprises discover crucial insights which drive business decisions and unify strategy, finance and operations through more integrated and intelligent planning to achieve full control of performance.
Partnering with Board, global enterprises such as H&M, BASF, Burberry, Toyota, Coca-Cola, KPMG, and HSBC have deployed end-to-end planning applications at a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Board International was founded in 1994 and now has 25 offices around the world and a global reseller network. Board has been implemented in over 100 countries.
Board International has long been recognized by leading analysts and subject matter experts including Gartner, Nucleus, and Dresner.
Headquartered in Switzerland and US, Board International has branches in Argentina, Australia, Benelux, Nordics, Germany, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, UAE and UK and a worldwide network of distributors and certified partners.
Board International is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
