Goodway Group is hiring a VP People Experience to lead the strategy and execution of our people function for our next stage of growth and transformation. This role goes beyond traditional HR to design the future workforce, leadership capability, and organizational structure required to deliver Goodway’s strategic agenda.
What You'll Do
- Define and lead Goodway's people strategy in alignment with the company's growth and transformation agenda.
- Translate business priorities into workforce planning, organizational design, and talent strategies.
- Support leadership in designing teams, structures, and decision-making frameworks that enable performance and scalability.
- Build and lead a high-performing People Experience team that acts as a strategic partner to the business.
- Strengthen leadership capability across the organization through coaching, leadership development, and improved management practices.
- Ensure leaders are equipped to guide teams through change and evolving ways of working.
- Oversee the full talent lifecycle including hiring, development, succession planning, and retention.
- Identify critical capabilities required for the future and develop strategies to build those capabilities internally.
- Develop a pro-active talent strategy to identify strong talent in market and ensure we improve our ability to 'hire-in-time' for client needs.
- Align learning and development initiatives to business priorities and emerging skill needs.
- Be the architect of a modern, high performing and customer centric culture whilst preserving the power of the Goodway culture defined by the goal of being 'thriving, caring and fun.'
- Foster a high-performing, inclusive culture that supports both employee engagement and accountability.
- Strengthen employee experience and engagement while maintaining focus on organizational effectiveness and business outcomes.
- Partner with technology and business leaders to prepare the workforce for evolving roles and AI-enabled ways of working.
- Support role redesign, capability development, and leadership readiness as technology reshapes workflows and team structures.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the COO, CEO and executive team on organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, and workforce planning.
- Use data and insights to inform people-related decisions and identify opportunities to improve organizational performance.
What We're Looking For
- Significant leadership experience in People, HR, Talent, or Organizational Development roles, ideally in a high-growth or transformation environment.
- Demonstrated success leading organizational change, workforce strategy, and leadership development initiatives.
- Strong experience partnering with senior leaders to design organizations, develop talent strategies, and support business transformation.
- Experience developing and managing a global, remote workforce and in offshoring strategy.
- Ability to translate business strategy into practical workforce and organizational plans.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Strong communication, influence, and executive presence with the ability to build trust across all levels of the organization.
- Experience working in modern, fast-evolving organizations, particularly those undergoing digital or operational transformation.
- Familiarity with future-of-work trends, including automation and AI, and their implications for roles, skills, and workforce design.
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business, Organizational Development, or related field.
Nice to Have
- Advanced HR certifications such as SHRM-SCP or SPHR.
Team & Environment
This role reports to the COO and partners closely with leaders across the business including operations, technology, and finance.
Work Mode
This is a remote-first position open to candidates in the US and UK, supporting a global workforce.
Goodway Group is human-first, constantly working to become more inclusive and to make sure our employee population reflects our desire to constantly add to our diversity in all ways. We want applications from everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status.
