HR Director – Cambridge – c£750 per day
This Cambridge-based HR leader offers interim and fractional support at around £750 per day. They bring long experience across knowledge-based environments and have built a career focused on strengthening people functions, improving processes, and guiding organisations through growth.
They have recently transitioned into consulting to support SMEs that require senior HR input without committing to a full-time position. Their work focuses on building values-led cultures, improving recruitment, reshaping internal communication, and introducing technology that makes people practices clearer and more consistent. They combine strategic planning with hands-on delivery, which suits organisations that want both direction and action.
Their consulting work includes introducing a new applicant tracking system and training hiring teams to use it with confidence. They have used AI to support fairer and faster hiring, helping teams reduce time to hire and improve candidate experience.
They refreshed company values and created a clear plan to embed those values across the full employee lifecycle. They also built a Manager Toolkit that helped leaders communicate well and feel supported in day-to-day people management.
They improved internal communication by simplifying channels and opening direct routes for employees to reach senior leadership. They introduced a peer recognition programme and reviewed the full benefits offering, giving leaders clear recommendations based on employee needs.
These projects show a consistent pattern of structured thinking, practical solutions, and steady leadership during change.
Their interest in AI is a real strength. They have used AI tools to analyse feedback from exit interviews, surveys, focus groups, and performance discussions. This helped identify patterns that were easy to overlook and gave leadership clear, evidence-based themes to work with. Their approach to technology is grounded, focused on what helps teams work smarter rather than adding unnecessary complexity.
Their senior HR experience spans several years across technical and scientific settings. They have held senior roles where they supported global teams, shaped people strategies, led change activity, improved training and development, managed complex employee relations, strengthened employer brand activity, and introduced HR software that lifted capability. They also supported international teams and handled varied local requirements across different regions.
They have also worked in standalone HR roles where they handled everything from recruitment and onboarding to benefits, development, and performance. During this period, they delivered a full benefits review, introduced cloud-based HR software, created a structured development programme, and recruited more than forty employees in a short timeframe during a key growth phase.
Earlier roles in people management and operations built strong foundations in employee relations, training, customer service, and leadership. Their early work in digital design shaped their communication skills and gave them a creative approach to problem-solving.
Their style is practical, curious, and people-focused. They enjoy shaping long-term plans but also take ownership of delivery. They read data well, build trust quickly, and bring a calm, confident presence to senior teams. They care about people, culture, and technology, and they bring these areas together in a balanced and grounded way.
This candidate will suit organisations that want to modernise HR, strengthen recruitment, improve culture, or bring clarity to people processes.
They offer immediate value and bring the kind of steady, thoughtful leadership that supports both people and growth.
If you are exploring interim or fractional HR support, this candidate is well worth consideration.
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