The HR Director will lead the development and execution of nexfibre’s people strategy, ensuring the organisation has the capability, culture, leadership and governance required to scale a national wholesale fibre infrastructure business.

This is a senior leadership role, responsible for building a high‑performing, values‑led organisation while balancing pace, discipline and compliance in a highly regulated, investor‑backed environment. The role will be critical in supporting nexfibre’s continued growth, integration activity, and long‑term sustainability as a national‑scale platform.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the people foundations of a business that is still being built – with genuine influence, complexity and scale.

What will you be doing?

People Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and deliver a people strategy aligned to nexfibre’s business plan, growth trajectory and shareholder expectations
• Act as a trusted adviser to the CEO and Executive Committee on organisational design, leadership effectiveness, succession and talent risks
• Build on a strong, inclusive culture that supports accountability, collaboration and performance at scale

Organisation Design & Capability

• Lead organisation design as the business scales, ensuring clarity of roles, decision rights and governance
• Support leadership team development as nexfibre transitions from build‑out to operational maturity
• Drive workforce planning across critical capability areas including engineering, operations, commercial, corporate functions

Talent, Performance & Reward

• Own senior hiring and succession planning for executive and leadership roles
• Design and oversee performance management, reward and incentive frameworks aligned with investor‑backed infrastructure best practice
• Ensure consistent, fair and commercially aligned approaches to compensation, grading and progression

Employee Relations & Governance

• Provide expert leadership on employee relations, ensuring issues are managed fairly, pragmatically and in line with UK employment law
• Oversee people policies, governance and compliance in line with regulatory and shareholder expectations
• Act as escalation point for complex or sensitive people matters

Change, Integration & Growth

• Lead people aspects of change programmes, including growth, integration and transformation activity
• Support effective communication and engagement during periods of change, maintaining trust and organisational momentum
• Partner closely with Finance, Legal and Operations to ensure people decisions are commercially sound and risk‑aware

People Function Leadership

• Ensure scalable, efficient people processes, systems and data to support a growing organisation
• Use insight and analytics to inform decision‑making and continuous improvement

The ideal candidate…

At nexfibre, we’re building a culture that attracts, develops, and retains top talent. Our values are Open, Fast, Simple. Our team is driven, high-performing, and thrives in a fast-paced, ever-evolving digital infrastructure industry. We’re looking for people who share our passion for connecting communities, driving innovation, and delivering the next generation of full-fibre networks across the UK.

The successful candidate will bring the following attributes and skills:

• Significant senior HR / People leadership experience, ideally in infrastructure, telecoms, utilities or similarly regulated, capital‑intensive environments
• Proven experience supporting fast‑growing, investor‑backed or private‑equity‑backed organisations
• Strong understanding of UK employment law, governance and best‑practice people frameworks
• Experience partnering at executive and board level with credibility and impact
• Demonstrated ability to balance pace, pragmatism and rigour in a scale‑up context
• Commercial, pragmatic and outcomes‑focused
• Confident operating with ambiguity and complexity
• High integrity, sound judgement and strong emotional intelligence
• Collaborative, credible and able to influence at all levels
• Resilient, adaptable and comfortable operating at pace

Desirable

• Experience in wholesale, B2B or platform‑based business models
• Exposure to integration, consolidation or major change programmes
• Experience operating in joint venture or multi‑shareholder environments