Senior Divisional HR Director

As Senior Divisional HR Director for Europe, you will serve as the key strategic advisor to our European leadership team and a critical partner to our US-based Group HR organisation. You will drive the people agenda across our European industrial equipment and vegetation management businesses, ensuring that talent, capability, and culture are aligned to our long-term growth ambitions.

Client Details

Alamo Group is a global manufacturer with more than 40 market leading brands operating across North America, Europe, and Australasia. Our equipment underpins essential infrastructure work roadway maintenance, biomass recycling, vegetation and tree management, and public works.

With $1.7B+ in global revenue and 3,750 employees, we are entering an exciting period of accelerated European growth, driven by both organic expansion and acquisition. Our teams in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Australia form a truly global network committed to innovation, operational excellence, and long term sustainability. The corporate centre of Evesham will be your base but as Senior Divisional HR Director for Europe you will be part of the European network of leaders.

Alamo are really looking for a HR leader who can take everyone with them and foster high levels of collaboration, celebrating cultural differences whilst striving for one goal.

Description

The Division HR Director serves as a strategic and forward-thinking HR partner responsible for shaping and executing people strategies across the organisation's European companies. This is a transformation heavy role requiring a leader who can balance global consistency with regional cultural nuance, creating integration and alignment without losing what makes each country team successful.

As Senior Divisional HR Director, you will:

• Act as the strategic HR partner to European business leaders, setting and executing the divisional people strategy.
• Lead the transformation and integration agenda across multiple countries, ensuring alignment with global HR priorities while adapting to local requirements.
• Drive organisational design, workforce planning, leadership development, and succession planning across European sites.
• Strengthen cross border talent management, mobility, and capability development in close partnership with Global Talent Management.
• Provide data driven insight on regional workforce trends, labour markets, and talent risks.
• Partner with Centres of Excellence to enhance recruiting, retention, HR operations, and leadership pipeline development.
• Lead and develop HR teams in multiple countries, raising capability and building a cohesive, high performing European HR community.
• Ensure HR processes and programs are consistent across the Division while remaining compliant with local employment legislation and sensitive to cultural context.
• Support M&A integration, workforce transitions, and organisation wide transformation initiatives.

Profile

A successful Senior Divisional HR Director should have:

• Significant senior HR leadership experience across multiple European countries.
• Fluency in English and at least one additional European language-ideally French, German, or Dutch.
• A strong track record in transformation, integration, and complex organisational change.
• Experience delivering digital HR transformation; Workday exposure advantageous.
• Background in manufacturing, industrial, engineering or similarly complex operational environments strongly preferred.
• Expert knowledge of European employment law; familiarity with US/Canada/LATAM advantageous but not essential.
• Demonstrable experience leading and developing HR teams across regions.
• Executive presence, resilience, and an inclusive leadership style that brings people with you.
• Ability to operate predominantly on-site across Europe and at our Evesham HQ. Alamo will support relocation and sponsorship for EU nationals looking to relocate to the UK
• Demonstrated and effective experience leading HR functions through M&A integration, regional restructuring, and workforce transitions.

Job Offer

A pivotal European leadership role with direct influence on global HR strategy.

Opportunity to shape a high-growth, multi-country division undergoing significant transformation.

Exposure to global leadership and future career pathways within a growing international Group.

Competitive executive remuneration and benefits.

This is an excellent opportunity to take on a pivotal HR leadership role. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, apply today!