Team Overview
The UK & Europe HR team delivers coordinated HR support across the region, translating business and global HR priorities into clear regional plans. The multidisciplinary team covers HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, working closely with HR Centres of Excellence and shared-service teams to provide a high-quality colleague and manager experience.
This role reports into the CHRO for UK & Europe.
This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
Role Overview And Core Responsibilities
•Lead and coordinate HR activities across the UK and Europe, ensuring that business and global HR priorities are delivered effectively and consistently.
•Lead the regional HR team across HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, Benefits, and Employee Experience, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and alignment.
•Oversee annual HR cycles, including performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession-planning processes.
•Partner with business leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, organisational change, and people-related transformation and integration activities.
•Maintain oversight of complex employee relations matters, employment law developments, regulatory requirements, policy updates, audits, and wider people-related risks.
•Oversee immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
•Coordinate regional benefits, recognition, wellbeing, and employee-experience programmes.
•Collaborate with the global HR Business Partner community, Centres of Excellence, and shared-service teams to implement enterprise programmes while meeting local legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
•Maintain effective service relationships with People Services, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, and other HR delivery teams, using governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor performance, escalate issues, and support continuous improvement.
•Manage regional HR projects, budgets, risks, dependencies, and governance activities while acting as a trusted HR partner to leaders and supporting the CHRO's strategic priorities.
Required Knowledge And Experiences
•Significant HR generalist experience gained within an international environment, with the ability to coordinate HR activity across multiple countries and stakeholder groups.
•Broad HR expertise spanning business partnering, employee relations, talent management, benefits, organisational change, and employee experience.
•Experience managing complex employee relations, regulatory, audit, and people-risk matters.
•Experience working with HR Centres of Excellence, People Services, and shared-service delivery models.
•Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing regional and global priorities.
Required Technical Skills
•Knowledge of UK employment law and the legal, regulatory, and operational considerations affecting HR delivery.
•Experience overseeing immigration, work permits, right-to-work compliance, IR35, and contingent-worker governance.
•Strong programme and project-management capabilities, including managing budgets, risks, dependencies, governance, and multiple workstreams.
•Ability to support annual HR processes covering performance, compensation, promotions, talent, and succession planning.
•Ability to use governance forums and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to monitor service performance, escalate issues, and drive continuous improvement.
Preferred Skills
•Experience working in a matrixed and regulated organisation.
•Knowledge of or experience supporting employment matters across European jurisdictions.
•Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualification or an equivalent professional qualification.
What's in it for you?
•26 days annual leave and bank holidays (increasing with service)
•Global paid wellness days off and a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
•A generous contributory pension scheme and access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
•Private health care and a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
•Access to diversity forums and communities
