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Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and this role will help ensure our employee experience, people practices, and leadership capability keep pace with the business.\nAs HR Director, EMEA, you will lead the regional HR team to deliver excellence across the employee lifecycle. You’ll act as a trusted adviser to EMEA leaders, managers, and employees, combining a clear perspective with practical delivery across employee relations, compliance, performance, and engagement.\nThis is a highly visible role for an experienced HR leader who can balance empathy, sound judgment, commercial awareness, and the need for consistent practices across a multi-country region.\nLead the EMEA people team\nPartner with the Chief People Officer and senior EMEA leaders to align priorities with business objectives, providing support and insight on planning, organization design, performance, engagement, and team effectiveness.\nTranslate global Talent strategies into practical regional plans, adapting frameworks for local application while maintaining consistency where it matters most.\nProvide clear, pragmatic advice on people decisions and help leaders make thoughtful, timely choices.\n\nProvide trusted employee-relations leadership\nLead and oversee complex employee-relations matters, including grievances, disciplinary processes, performance concerns, investigations, absence, conflict resolution, and restructures.\nCoach managers to address issues early, fairly, and consistently, escalating to senior Talent leaders, Legal, or specialist advisers when appropriate.\nHelp maintain a respectful, safe, inclusive workplace through sound process, thoughtful communication, and effective follow-through.\nEnsure HR practices, employment documentation, and policies meet applicable UK and EMEA requirements\nStrengthen performance, development, and engagement\nDrive the regional performance-management agenda, with a special focus on feedback quality, performance improvement, and development planning.\nPartner with Learning & Development and business leaders to identify capability gaps and support targeted development actions.\nUse employee insight, voice data, and business context to shape initiatives that strengthen connection, retention, and the employee experience.\nDeliver strong regional HR operations\nOversee high quality delivery across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, probation, employment changes, leave, benefits, immigration support where relevant, and exits.\nWork closely with HR Operations, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and other partners to ensure excellent service and reliable execution.\nMaintain impeccable data quality and reporting across HR systems, using people metrics to inform decisions and improve how HR operates.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify processes, improve manager enablement, and strengthen the regional HR service.\nPartner to deliver change and organisational effectiveness\nPartner with leaders on organizational change, restructures, integration activity, and periods of growth or transition.\nCreate clear communication plans so people understand what is changing, why it matters, and how they will be supported.\nSupport workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, and broader organizational development priorities.\nBuild capability and lead through influence\nLead, coach, and develop HR team members within the region, setting clear expectations and building a high standard of service and professional capability.\nBuild credible relationships across diverse markets and cultures, influencing effectively without relying on hierarchy.\nShare regional insight with global Talent colleagues and help continuously improve MiQ’s people practices, tools, and ways of working.\nWhat you’ll bring\nAt least 6 years of progressive experience in HR, HR business partnering, or regional Talent leadership, including substantial experience operating at senior manager or director level.\nStrong experience leading complex employee-relations matters, investigations, performance issues, organizational change, and sensitive people decisions.\nStrong working knowledge of UK employment law and the ability to partner effectively with Legal and local advisers on requirements across EMEA.\nDemonstrated ability to advise and influence senior leaders, translate business priorities into practical people strategies, and operate confidently in ambiguity.\nExperience leading or developing HR teams and building capability through coaching, clear standards, and effective prioritization.\nComfort using HRIS platforms, reporting tools, and people data to support decisions and improve processes; 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