Senior Director of People

• Own the leadership development agenda end to end
• Lead talent acquisition, business partnering, reward and people operations
• Coach the executive team on organisational design and succession

• Own executive reward, incentive design and compensation governance
• Lead succession planning and executive development for critical roles
• Strengthen performance management, engagement and retention
• Advise the board's compensation committee on people risk and reward
• Design the workforce plan against the multi-year business strategy

• Depth in reward design, organisational design and succession planning
• Experience advising executives and board committees
• Senior HR leadership experience at an equivalent scale
• 11+ years, including 3+ leading managers of progressive leadership experience
• Experience operating in the aerospace sector or an adjacent regulated market

• Proven leadership of 40–120 people, directly and through other leaders
• Accountability for a budget or P&L consistent with Multi-team ownership within a national function
• Experience presenting to executive committees, boards or investment committees

• Experience supporting M&A or large-scale restructuring
• Formal coaching or organisational psychology credentials

Sable Aviation Systems is an aerospace supplier serving commercial and government programmes. This is demo content: the organisation, its results and its openings are illustrative examples used to demonstrate the HireAxis executive marketplace. The Sable Aviation Systems leadership team is structured around a small executive committee with clear P&L ownership, supported by functional heads across strategy, operations, finance, technology and people.