Fractional (Part-Time) HR Director
Strategic HR expertise to shape your people strategy and deliver the solutions that improve commercial performance.
Whether supporting your existing HR team or providing standalone leadership, we embed quickly and work as part of your business . We offer board level HR insight, practical guidance, and hands-on support without the overhead of a permanent hire.
The top 10 people challenges keeping SME and Scale-up leaders up at night and how we help
How we help:
We develop and deliver a people strategy that is aligned with your business ambitions, turning reactive HR into proactive performance. We also build a performance framework that enables every individual’s contribution to align with your goals and culture.
How we help:
We design a scalable structure and provide clarity around roles, responsibilities, and leadership accountability, preserving agility and avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy. We can also design a new operating model that supports your evolving strategy.
How we help:
We support leaders to shift from doing to leading by developing their capability, confidence, and resilience through real-time coaching and leadership development. We also act as a sounding board for Business Leaders while developing their team to perform as one.
How we help:
We help you reignite the sense of one team with a clear purpose and values that shape everyday behaviour. We embed these into your core people and operating processes, so culture becomes what employees and customers actually experience.
How we help:
We develop a compelling employee proposition that highlights what matters most, including recognition, reward, progression, and culture. We help you communicate this clearly to current and future talent. We also design scalable hiring and succession processes that grow with your business.
How we help:
We support leaders to set clear expectations and hold meaningful performance conversations that are timely, confident, and consistent. We build capability and introduce frameworks that strengthen accountability while protecting trust.
How we help:
We create tailored learning and development, and talent plans that grow capability, build resilience, and unlock future potential, using cost effective, scalable solutions.
How we help:
We guide leaders and teams confidently through transformation, including people planning, communication, and organisational alignment. When required, we provide expertise in due diligence, M&A, TUPE, redundancy, and union relations.
How we help:
We identify where pressure is building and where clarity, capability, or capacity need to grow. We help leaders make practical shifts that protect wellbeing while sustaining performance momentum.
How we help:
We build fit for purpose people infrastructure and processes that support agility, not bureaucracy, and we advise on accessible technology to make HR work smarter. We can also support your HR leader through HR Mentoring Plus
Outcome: People Strategy and practices that fuel Performance
SMEs with structured people and management practices are 10% more likely to achieve high growth and see 5-9 % higher productivity gains(Forth & Bryson 2018; Sheehan & Garavan 2022)
How We Work with You as a Fractional (Part-Time) HR Director
Engagement Model
- Typically, one to two days per week embedded in your leadership rhythm
- Usually, three-month minimum commitment to create meaningful traction
- Predictable monthly charging
- Simple, flexible agreements. We scale support up or down as required.
Flexible support with the continuity and Strategic HR support your business needs to move forward.
Engagement Model
- Typically, one to two days per week embedded in your leadership rhythm
- Usually, three-month minimum commitment to create meaningful traction
- Predictable monthly charging
- Simple, flexible agreements. We scale support up or down as required.
Flexible support with the continuity and Strategic HR support your business needs to move forward.
Why we do not stop at Fractional (Part-Time) HR Director
Some SMEs and scale-ups already have an HR leader in place. Often, they have grown with the business and are facing the Top Ten people challenges, highlighted above, for the first time. We call these the “Big Firsts”, the times when an HR leader must deliver something high-impact, high-stakes and completely new to them.
That is why we offer HR Mentoring Plus. It develops strategic HR capability and confidence from within the business, strengthening the impact of your existing HR leadership.
We also provide Business Coaching to equip founders, leaders, and teams with the clarity, capability, and resilience to lead change well.
When the business is moving fast, your people and leaders need to move with it.