Global People & Culture Director

The Global People Director will be a key architect of Cambridge Consultants’ transformation to inspire and lead a new era of deep tech innovation. They will be the strategic bridge between Capgemini (our parent company) and CC. They will steer the cultural, talent, and organisational transformations to enable the company to:

• Build an entrepreneurial, innovation‑driven culture where teams embrace calculated risk, experimentation, and rapid learning.
• Shape an AI‑native organisation, equipping all employees with the mindset and fluency to leverage the latest AI tools.
• Create a diverse leadership pipeline and talent engine that strengthens innovation, client partnership, and global reach.
• Operationalise the cultural and behavioural expectations of our strategy through hiring, development, reward, leadership capabilities, and organisational design.

You will act as a strategic partner to the executive team and senior leadership, linking the people agenda to our strategy. Driving transformational change in our People & Culture, to build a diverse talent engine tuned to innovation & partnership.

Experience

• Substantial HR leadership experience with a proven track record operating at Director level (or equivalent) in a global, matrixed organisation.
• Demonstrated success in strategic people leadership, culture building, and enterprise-level transformation.
• Experience leading cultural transformation in a technology, innovation, or consulting environment.
• Prior success in building AInative or data-driven organisations is strongly preferred.
• Proven delivery across talent management, performance, engagement, org design, and EDI.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strategic operator who links people plans to business outcomes
• Change leadership: design and deliver change; coach leaders through ambiguity
• Understand innovation culture, and high-performance technical teams
• Influence & challenge: a critical partner driving alignment of senior leaders; courageous, commercially grounded, and solutions oriented.
• EVP: partner with Marketing to position Cambridge Consultants as a destination for diverse, innovative talent
• Inspirational people leader who unites and elevates a people function
• Deep commitment to inclusion, equity, and belonging; credible on modern EDI practices and reporting.