[Hiring] Portfolio HR Director @Volaris Group

Role Description

This is a high-impact HR leadership role working directly with CEOs across a portfolio of software businesses, helping them build stronger organisations and leadership teams in a fast-paced, acquisition-driven environment. You will join a small, strategic Portfolio People Team supporting around 10 businesses across EMEA and APAC.

This is not a traditional HR role; you won’t be building centralised processes or managing a large HR function. Instead, you will work directly with business leaders to solve real problems, improving leadership capability, strengthening teams, and supporting better people decisions. Some businesses have HR on the ground; others have none.

This is a hands-on role requiring consistent engagement with the businesses. While we offer flexibility on hours, we are looking for someone who can take ownership, build strong relationships, and see things through. We are also operating in a context where AI is reshaping how work gets done. This role will play a part in helping leaders think differently about organisation design, capability, and talent, ensuring they build high-performing teams that can fully leverage AI.

Qualifications

• Pragmatic, commercially minded HR leader
• Comfortable advising and constructively challenging CEOs
• Strong commercial judgement and credibility with leaders
• Experienced across both strategic HR and operational delivery
• Able to navigate ambiguity across businesses at different stages of maturity
• Keen interest in how AI is reshaping work

Requirements

• Partner directly with CEOs, leadership teams, and local HR (where it exists) to improve organisational effectiveness and leadership performance
• Advise CEOs on organisation design and leadership structure
• Strengthen leadership teams through better talent and succession decisions
• Support leaders through complex employee situations (e.g. grievances, investigations, redundancies)
• Provide clear, practical guidance to leaders with varying levels of people management experience
• Drive adoption of portfolio approaches to performance, talent, and leadership
• Support HR due diligence pre-acquisition
• Lead or support people integration post-acquisition
• Partner with HR leads in some businesses and provide direct HR support in others

Benefits

• Circa £100,000 FTE salary (pro rata)
• Bonus up to 20%
• Fully remote flexible working (minimum 30 hours p/w, with some travel as required)
• Private health insurance
• Health cash plan
• Pension
• 36 days annual leave (including public holidays)

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