Head of People & Culture

What You’ll Be Doing

✅Bringing a clear people, organisation and performance perspective to AG’s strategy and Executive Leadership Team decisions

✅ Strengthening leadership expectations, accountability, decision-making and ownership of performance

✅ Leading and developing our People & Culture team, ensuring practical, timely and commercially focused HR support across the business

✅ Creating and embedding an effective company-wide approach to performance, objectives, feedback, development and underperformance

✅ Strengthening recruitment, retention, succession planning, leadership development and internal progression

✅ Building the workforce capabilities AG needs for automation, digitalisation and new ways of working

✅ Embedding AG’s values and developing a culture centred on ownership, delivery, teamwork, continuous improvement and customer focus

✅ Promoting a strong One AG approach and helping to promote teamwork across the business

✅ Supporting organisational change, including structures, roles and ways of working, ensuring changes are communicated clearly, implemented fairly and deliver the intended business outcomes

✅ Simplifying and digitising people processes to improve service, efficiency and workforce insight

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a business leader whose professional expertise is People & Culture.

You’ll be commercially credible, comfortable challenging and supporting senior leaders and equally willing to stay close to practical HR delivery.

Ideally, you’ll bring:

✨ Senior HR or People leadership experience within a commercially focused organisation, ideally manufacturing, operations or another multi-site environment

✨ A strong track record of improving leadership, performance management, culture and organisational effectiveness

✨ Experience leading and developing an HR or People team while maintaining strong core HR delivery

✨ Sound employee relations knowledge and the judgement to successfully manage complex and sensitive matters

✨ Experience influencing and constructively challenging senior leadership teams, Executive Leadership Teams or Boards

✨ Practical experience across talent, succession planning, workforce planning, organisational design and business change

✨ The ability to use people data, systems and technology to improve decision-making, service and efficiency

✨ A relevant professional qualification, such as CIPD, or equivalent senior-level People leadership experience

✨ Current knowledge of employment practice across the UK and Ireland, or the ability to quickly develop and apply this knowledge

The Person

You’ll be credible, calm and commercially minded, with the confidence to say what needs to be said.

Practical and action-oriented, you’ll be equally comfortable discussing organisational strategy with the Executive Leadership Team and supporting the practical delivery of the People agenda.

You’ll bring sound judgement, integrity and respect, communicating clearly, simplifying complexity and building trust across all levels of the organisation.

Most importantly, you’ll understand that a successful People & Culture function isn’t measured by process alone. It’s measured by the difference it makes to leadership, people and business performance.

Why AG

At AG, we’re building more than products. We’re building people.

We trust our teams, invest in their development and recognise that our people are fundamental to delivering outstanding products, service and sustainable business growth.

We’re proud of our heritage and ambitious about what’s ahead. This role offers the opportunity to influence that future as a member of our Executive Leadership Team, helping shape the organisation, leadership and culture AG needs for its next stage of growth.

We are AG.

⁉️ Got a Question?

If you’d like to speak to a member of the HR team to find out more, contact Cathy Read:
📞 Phone: (028) 8952 1275
💬 Message / WhatsApp: 07525 897001
📧 Email: cathy.read@ag.uk.com