Company: This organisation is a global market-leader in specialty chemicals and ingredients, playing a central role in connecting customers and suppliers across diverse industries. With a strong global footprint, they provide tailor-made application support, technical expertise, regulatory know-how, and digital solutions to customers worldwide. Their culture is defined by collaboration, innovation, and sustainability, creating an environment where employees are empowered to grow, contribute, and achieve their full potential.

Role: As Senior HR Director, you will operate as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior business leaders. You will drive HR strategies that enable the business to achieve its long-term goals, ensuring organisational effectiveness through strong alignment of people, processes, and performance. This is a highly visible, global role requiring strong commercial acumen, stakeholder management, and the ability to navigate complex and evolving environments.

Main Responsibilities

• Partner with senior business leaders to design and implement HR strategies aligned with business objectives
• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, providing guidance across all HR matters
• Lead global talent initiatives, including succession planning, leadership development, and workforce planning
• Drive organisational effectiveness through strategic design, optimisation, and change management
• Lead and deliver global HR projects, including organisation redesign and transformation initiatives
• Partner with HR Centres of Excellence and regional teams to deliver consistent global HR initiatives

Key Requirements

• Minimum 15 years of professional HR experience, with at least 5 years in a global HRBP or senior leadership role
• Previous experience within the chemical, life sciences, or material sciences sector strongly preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong ability to build relationships and influence across multiple stakeholders
• Proven success in managing complexity and ambiguity within large, matrixed organisations
• Commercially minded with strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on, adaptive approach.