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We are recruiting for a Director of Service! Location: Our Staines office - 2, Causeway Park, The Causeway, Staines-upon-Thames,
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- Lead the services teams to ensure delivery of outstanding client experiences and achievement of operational, financial, people and strategic objectives.
- Build strong relationships with Product teams to facilitate ever improving client outcomes
- Be a thought leader and advocate of new ways of working and new technologies such as artificial intelligence to improve client experience
- Develop and execute the service strategy, ensuring alignment with broader UKISE and business priorities.
- Deliver retention, revenue, NPS, operational efficiency and profitability objectives through effective leadership and execution.
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing leadership team, creating a strong succession pipeline and future leadership capability.
- Build strong executive relationships with key clients and act as an escalation point where required.
- Partner closely with Sales, Implementation, Product, Finance and other functions to support business growth and client retention.
- Drive operational excellence through process improvement, technology adoption and automation opportunities.
- Use data, insights and management information to identify trends, mitigate risks and improve service delivery performance.
- Ensure strong governance, compliance and risk management disciplines across the organisation.
- Maintain accountability for client data security, audit readiness, business continuity and operational resilience.
- Identify and remove barriers to performance, creating an environment focused on accountability, innovation and continuous improvement.
- Lead organisational change initiatives and support the successful implementation of strategic business programmes.
- Develop workforce and resource plans that support current and future business requirements.
- Champion associate engagement and create a culture that attracts, develops and retains top talent.
- Play a key leadership role within the UK Service Leadership Team and contribute to broader organisational strategy and decision making.
- Perform other duties and business initiatives as required and as the business dictates.
- Significant experience leading large-scale service delivery, operations or customer-facing organisations.
- Proven success operating at Director level.
- A broad career history, working across various industries to bring new ways of working to the HCM segment
- Experience of consumer led industries so that you bring with you B2C experience and strategies to be applied to ADP B2B clients
- Strong commercial acumen with experience balancing client, associate and business outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience leading leaders and developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent analytical and presentation skills, with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders and executive audiences.
- Strong influencing and relationship-building capability both internally and externally.
- Experience delivering transformation, organisational change and operational improvement initiatives.
- Strong governance, risk management and business continuity experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced, complex and high-pressure environment.
- A passion for developing people and creating an engaging, high-performance culture.
Nice to Have
~1 min read- Knowledge of HR, Payroll and HCM outsourcing solutions.
- Experience operating within a BPO, managed services or professional services environment.
- International or multi-site leadership experience.
- Experience leading transformation, automation or digital service programmes.
- Knowledge of payroll legislation and operational delivery models.
What We Offer
~1 min read✓25 days holiday (you can also buy and sell up to 5 days each year)
✓Flexible benefits - private medical insurance, excellent pension scheme, subsidized gyms, employee discount portal, life assurance cover, annual kids pass membership and many more
✓Study support
✓Employee Assistance Program
✓Company social events
✓Annual bonus scheme
Location & Eligibility
Where is the job
United Kingdom
On-site within the country
Who can apply
GB
Listing Details
- First seen
- September 25, 2026
- Last seen
- September 26, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 52%
- Scored at
- September 26, 2026
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