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United Kingdom · Human Resources · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Head of People

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toDirector of People
  • UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as People Generalist · HR Business Partner (HRBP) · People & Culture Specialist

Built on an analysis of 43,079 real UK job descriptions · grounded in qualifications employers recognise

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about 'HR admin'—far from it. As a Head of People, you'll be the go-to person for managers and employees alike, making sure our day-to-day people operations run smoothly. You'll own a bunch of critical processes, from sorting out leave requests to helping managers with tricky performance chats. It's a role where you get to truly make a difference in people's working lives, tackling real problems and helping us build a better place to work, honestly.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Workday HCMIntermediate

Processing new hires, terminations, compensation changes, managing employee data, pulling standard reports, and helping employees navigate self-service features.

Greenhouse (ATS)Intermediate

Managing candidate pipelines, scheduling interviews, generating offer letters from templates, and guiding hiring managers through recruitment workflows.

Lattice (Engagement & Performance)Intermediate

Launching pre-configured survey cycles, pulling individual manager reports, helping managers interpret team results, and navigating the platform for employee queries.

Pave (Compensation Management)Basic

Entering compensation data for new hires, understanding how to pull a basic compensation band report for a single role, and answering basic comp queries.

TableauBasic

Viewing and filtering pre-built dashboards (e.g., headcount, attrition, diversity metrics) to understand trends and inform discussions.

Excel/Google SheetsIntermediate

Using VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, and PivotTables for basic workforce tracking, budget reconciliation, and ad-hoc data analysis.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Employee Relations (ER) Case ManagementEscalate all ER issues to a senior team member for guidance and resolution. Your role is primarily to gather initial facts.Independently manage first-level ER issues (e.g., minor performance concerns, basic conflict resolution) within established policy. Escalate complex or high-risk cases (e.g., harassment, discrimination, potential legal action) to your Director.Lead complex ER investigations end-to-end, including disciplinary actions and terminations, consulting with legal counsel as needed. Advise leadership on ER strategy and risk mitigation.
Policy Interpretation & ApplicationRefer all policy questions to a senior team member or the official policy document. Do not interpret policy independently.Interpret and apply existing policies to routine employee situations, providing clear guidance to managers and employees. Propose minor policy clarifications or updates to your Director.Develop and revise HR policies, ensuring legal compliance and alignment with company culture. Make recommendations for significant policy changes to senior leadership.
Compensation DecisionsNo authority. Provide data (e.g., salary ranges) from templates. All offers and compensation changes must be approved by a manager.Recommend compensation for new hires and internal promotions within approved salary bands, subject to manager and Director approval. Can pull basic compensation reports from Pave.Approve compensation decisions within a defined budget (e.g., up to £5K variance from midpoint) for your client group. Conduct market benchmarking for specific roles and propose adjustments.
Vendor Selection & ManagementNo authority. Use existing vendors and systems as directed.Manage relationships with existing HR vendors (e.g., benefits providers), handling routine queries and escalating issues. Research potential new vendors for specific needs and present findings to your Director.Lead the selection and negotiation process for new HR vendors (e.g., a new engagement survey tool), managing contracts up to £20K. Oversee vendor performance and integration.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Time-to-fill for routine roles
How quickly you help hiring managers fill standard, non-senior positions.
Target · < 45 days

Helped the Sales team fill 3 Account Executive roles in an average of 38 days last quarter, beating the target.

New hire onboarding satisfaction (eNPS)
How happy new starters are with their onboarding experience, from offer to first 90 days.
Target · +50

Our onboarding eNPS score hit +55 last month, showing new hires feel really supported from day one.

HR ticket resolution time (first response)
How quickly you respond to employee queries coming through our HR support system.
Target · < 24 hours

Average first response time for employee queries was 18 hours last week, keeping people informed quickly.

HRIS data accuracy for your client group
The percentage of employee records in Workday that are complete and correct, including personal details, compensation, and reporting lines.
Target · 99.5%

A recent audit found only 2 errors in 400 records for your client group, hitting 99.5% accuracy.

Manager Confidence & Competence
Are managers in your client group feeling more capable and confident handling people issues, like performance reviews or difficult conversations?
  • Managers proactively seek your advice before issues escalate
  • they report feeling better equipped after your coaching
  • positive feedback in skip-level meetings about their people management.
Employee Trust & Accessibility
Do employees feel comfortable coming to you with sensitive issues, knowing you'll listen and act fairly?
  • Employees approach you directly with concerns
  • positive comments in anonymous surveys about HR support
  • you're seen as a fair and confidential resource, not just 'management's police'.
Process Improvement & Ownership
Do you actively look for ways to make our people processes smoother and more effective, and then take the reins to make those changes happen?
  • You propose and then implement small but impactful process tweaks (e.g., a better leave request form)
  • you 'own' a process end-to-end and it runs without constant prompting
  • positive feedback from users of your improved processes.
Proactive Problem Solving
Are you spotting potential issues before they blow up and taking steps to address them, rather than just reacting?
  • You flag a potential team conflict to a manager before it becomes a major problem
  • you notice a trend in exit interviews and suggest a preventative measure
  • you identify a gap in our policy and propose a solution.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Solving People Puzzles

You get a real kick out of figuring out why a team isn't gelling, or helping a manager navigate a tricky performance conversation. It's about finding practical solutions to human problems.

Successfully mediated a minor team conflict, helping both parties understand each other better and get back to productive work.

Making a Tangible Difference

You like seeing the direct impact of your work, whether it's a smoother onboarding experience for a new joiner or a clearer policy that everyone understands. It's about improving things for real people.

Received positive feedback from a new employee who said the onboarding process you managed made them feel truly welcome and ready to start.

Continuous Learning & Growth

You're always keen to learn about new HR best practices, employment law updates, or better ways to support our people. The world of work changes fast, and you want to keep up.

Took the initiative to research and present a summary of recent changes to UK parental leave policies to the wider People team.

What frustrates people
  • Managers asking you to 'just sort out' their difficult employee conversations, rather than coaching them to handle it themselves.
  • Dealing with inconsistent practices or 'legacy' issues that you're expected to fix without upsetting anyone.
  • Having to explain the same policy or process multiple times because people don't read the documentation.
  • Being seen as purely administrative, rather than a strategic partner, by some parts of the business.
  • The emotional labour of being the confidential sounding board for everyone's problems, without always being able to share your own.
What this role does not give you
  • A clear-cut, predictable daily routine—expect the unexpected.
  • The ability to make every single person happy all the time; it's just not possible.
  • A role where you only deal with positive, uplifting situations; the reality is much messier.
  • A path to becoming a deep technical specialist in one niche HR area; this is broad and generalist.

6Who you work with

You're directly responsible for making sure our people feel supported and that our managers have the guidance they need to lead effectively. Get it right, and you'll see happier teams, smoother operations, and fewer headaches for everyone. Get it wrong, and you'll have managers struggling, employees feeling ignored, and a general sense of disorganisation that can really drag morale down. Your work underpins the daily functioning of our entire workforce, honestly.

Inside the business
  • Departmental Managers (e.g., Sales, Product, Engineering)
  • Individual Contributors across all teams
  • Payroll & Finance teams (for comp and benefits queries)
  • Legal Counsel (for trickier employee relations cases)
Outside the business
  • Benefits providers (e.g., private healthcare, pension)
  • Immigration lawyers (for visa applications)
  • HR software vendors (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse support)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a dedicated HR or People Operations role, where you've owned processes end-to-end.
  • Proven experience managing basic employee relations issues, including investigations and performance management discussions.
  • Demonstrable experience with a major HRIS (like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or Oracle HCM) for data entry and reporting.
  • A solid understanding of UK employment law basics and how to apply them in day-to-day HR scenarios.
  • Experience running or significantly contributing to an onboarding programme for new hires.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced HRIS Configuration & Reporting

Moving beyond basic data entry and standard reports, you'll need to configure business processes and build custom reports to answer more complex questions about our people data.

Business Process Configuration · Custom Report Building · Data Auditing & Integrity

  • This week: Ask your Director for access to Workday's training resources or a sandbox environment.
  • This month: Identify one recurring manual data task and figure out how to automate it or generate a report for it in Workday.
  • Month 2: Shadow a more senior team member who builds custom reports or configures business processes.
  • Month 3: Take an online course on advanced Workday reporting or configuration, if available.

Quick win: Find a simple piece of data you currently track in a spreadsheet and try to build a basic custom report for it in Workday.

People Analytics Storytelling

It's not enough to just pull data; you'll need to be able to turn that data into a compelling story that helps managers and leaders make better decisions about their people.

Data Visualisation Principles · Connecting Data to Business Outcomes · Narrative Building

  • This week: When you look at any existing HR dashboard, try to articulate the 'story' it's telling in 2-3 sentences.
  • This month: Take a free online course on data storytelling or effective data visualisation (e.g., from Coursera, Udemy).
  • Month 2: Practice presenting a small set of HR data (e.g., exit interview trends) to your manager, focusing on the 'so what?' and your recommendations.
  • Month 3: Collaborate with a more senior analyst or your Director to refine a presentation that uses people data to influence a decision.

Quick win: Next time you share any data, add a short, punchy paragraph explaining what it means and what action you think we should take.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending CIPD webinars or local HR networking events to stay up-to-date on employment law changes and best practices.
  • Subscribing to HR industry publications and newsletters (e.g., People Management, HR Magazine) to keep abreast of trends.
  • Seeking out opportunities to shadow more senior HR professionals, especially during complex employee relations cases or policy development discussions.
  • Taking online courses on specific HR topics like advanced Excel for HR, data privacy, or conflict resolution.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Assisted HR Operations

AI is already streamlining repetitive tasks in HR, from drafting documents to answering basic employee queries. Those who can use these tools effectively will be significantly more productive and impactful.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

Your PlanIllustration

Built for Head of People

2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Administer human resource recordsHighfield Qualifications · covers 2 of 5 standardsLevel 3
  2. Recruit, select and keep colleaguesPearson EDI · covers 2 of 5 standardsLevel 3
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Assisted HR Operations

AI is already streamlining repetitive tasks in HR, from drafting documents to answering basic employee queries. Those who can use these tools effectively will be significantly more productive and impactful.

  • Prompt Engineering Basics
  • AI for Data Analysis
  • Ethical AI Use in HR
  • HR Chatbot Management

Hybrid Work Management & Culture

Hybrid work isn't going anywhere. You'll need to be really good at creating a cohesive culture and managing performance across both in-office and remote teams, making sure everyone feels included and productive.

  • Inclusive Meeting Design
  • Remote Performance Management
  • Digital Employee Experience
  • Culture Building in a Hybrid World

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Employee Relations & Investigation
  • Total Rewards Fundamentals
  • Talent Acquisition Process Management
  • Onboarding & Offboarding
  • HR Data & Reporting

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    People Operations Coordinator / HR Administrator

    2-3 years

    Skills to master

    • Mastering HRIS data entry and reporting, managing basic HR processes (onboarding, offboarding), handling initial employee queries, and understanding core HR policies.

    You're ready to move on when

    • You've taken ownership of specific HR processes, not just executed tasks.
    • You've started to identify and propose small process improvements.
    • You're the go-to person for complex queries from junior team members.
    • You've independently managed a few basic employee relations issues from start to finish.
  2. 2

    Junior HR Business Partner (HRBP) in a larger organisation

    1-2 years

    Skills to master

    • Building relationships with managers, providing initial advice on performance management, supporting recruitment for a client group, and contributing to HR projects.

    You're ready to move on when

    • You've supported a specific business unit and understand their unique people challenges.
    • You've helped managers with their first few performance reviews or difficult conversations.
    • You're comfortable presenting HR information to small groups of managers or employees.
    • You've started to connect HR initiatives to business outcomes for your client group.
  3. 3

    Specialist Role (e.g., Recruitment Coordinator, Benefits Administrator)

    2-4 years

    Skills to master

    • Deep expertise in one HR area (e.g., full-cycle recruitment, benefits administration, HRIS support) combined with a desire to broaden into generalist HR.

    You're ready to move on when

    • You've become the subject matter expert in your specialism and can troubleshoot complex issues.
    • You've started to take an interest in other areas of HR beyond your specialism.
    • You've identified how your specialist area impacts other parts of the employee lifecycle.
    • You're actively seeking opportunities to learn about broader HR strategy and operations.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here is what you make it. We're committed to giving you the tools, the opportunities, and the support to grow, whether that's becoming a senior leader or a deep specialist. We're excited to see where you take it.

Pay & demand

Typical pay £57,529 a year Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 (provisional), under the Open Government Licence v3.0

The figure is the median for full-time employees in the ONS occupation this job title codes to (Human resource managers and directors), from the April 2025 survey — about six months old when published, as ASHE always is. It is that occupation's middle, not this role's. Half earn more.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Head of People is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

The record names a next step, but the catalogue has no page for it yet:

  • Senior Head of People / Senior HR Business Partner

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Administer human resource recordsLevel 3

Applied to your work in Head of People

This unit aims to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to administer human resource records effectively. Learners will understand organisational and legal requirements, create and maintain personnel files, and report Human Resource information accurately and confidentially. Upon completion, learners will be able to apply these skills in a practical setting.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Head of People

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Time-to-fill for routine rolesHow quickly you help hiring managers fill standard, non-senior positions.Helped the Sales team fill 3 Account Executive roles in an average of 38 days last quarter, beating the target.< 45 days
  • New hire onboarding satisfaction (eNPS)How happy new starters are with their onboarding experience, from offer to first 90 days.Our onboarding eNPS score hit +55 last month, showing new hires feel really supported from day one.+50
  • HR ticket resolution time (first response)How quickly you respond to employee queries coming through our HR support system.Average first response time for employee queries was 18 hours last week, keeping people informed quickly.< 24 hours
  • HRIS data accuracy for your client groupThe percentage of employee records in Workday that are complete and correct, including personal details, compensation, and reporting lines.A recent audit found only 2 errors in 400 records for your client group, hitting 99.5% accuracy.99.5%
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Head of People to Senior Head of People / Senior HR Business Partner, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Head of People / Senior HR Business Partner→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey here is what you make it. We're committed to giving you the tools, the opportunities, and the support to grow, whether that's becoming a senior leader or a deep specialist. We're excited to see where you take it.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Head of People
  • Employee Relations & Investigation
  • Total Rewards Fundamentals
  • Talent Acquisition Process Management
  • Onboarding & Offboarding
  • HR Data & Reporting
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Head of People is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Senior Head of People / Senior HR Business Partner

    3-5 years

    From L2 to L3 (Senior)

    • Leading complex employee relations investigations and disciplinary processes end-to-end.
    • Designing and implementing small-scale HR programmes (e.g., a new manager training module).
    • Providing strategic advice to mid-level and senior managers on organisational design and talent planning.
    • Conducting in-depth people analytics to identify trends and inform business decisions.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, a lot of HR work involves sifting through information, drafting documents, and trying to spot patterns. Good news: AI isn't here to replace you, but it's definitely here to make your life a whole lot easier. Think of it as your super-efficient assistant, taking care of the tedious bits so you can focus on the human stuff that really matters.

You're probably thinking, 'AI in HR? Sounds a bit scary.' But honestly, it's about making your day-to-day more productive. We're already seeing our People team use AI to cut down on the boring, repetitive tasks, freeing them up to spend more time coaching managers, supporting employees, and tackling the really interesting challenges. We're not talking about sci-fi robots; we're talking about smart tools that help you get through your workload faster.

Policy & JD First Drafts

Use a generative AI tool, like ChatGPT or Jasper, trained on our company's existing documents and tone of voice. This means you can get the first 80% of a new policy (say, a flexible working update) or a tricky job description drafted in minutes, ensuring consistent language and structure. You just add the human touch and specifics.

Sentiment Analysis Accelerator

Imagine feeding thousands of anonymous comments from our Lattice engagement surveys into an AI tool. Instead of days of manual reading, it can instantly flag key themes, tell you the overall sentiment (positive, negative, neutral), and pinpoint which departments are feeling what. This helps you get to the root of issues much faster.

Automated Communication Summaries

Got a long email thread about a complex employee issue? Use AI to quickly summarise the key points, actions, and stakeholders involved. Or, if you need to draft a clear, concise email explaining a new benefit, AI can help you get a solid first version that's easy for everyone to understand, saving you precious drafting time.

Quick Policy Lookups & Q&A

Instead of hunting through policy documents, imagine asking an AI chatbot (trained on our internal policies) a quick question like, 'What's the process for requesting parental leave?' and getting an instant, accurate answer. This means less time searching for you, and faster answers for employees.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Head of People?

Common routes in include People Operations Coordinator / HR Administrator (2-3 years), Junior HR Business Partner (HRBP) in a larger organisation (1-2 years) and Specialist Role (e.g., Recruitment Coordinator, Benefits Administrator) (2-4 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Head of People progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Head of People / Senior HR Business Partner (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Head of People in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Head of People?

Increasingly, AI-Assisted HR Operations and Hybrid Work Management & Culture. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Head of People, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 5 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Head of People: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Human Resources

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll build as a Head of People are incredibly transferable. You could easily move into similar generalist HR roles in different industries (e.g., FinTech, healthcare, manufacturing) or even transition into consulting, where your ability to solve complex people problems would be highly valued. Your core understanding of people, processes, and business needs is universal, honestly.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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