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Reporting to the Chief People Officer, the VP People is responsible for delivering Virgin Atlantic's People Strategy through a high-impact People Partnering model, while leading our approach to Employee Relations, Industrial Relations and employee voice.
Job Responsibility
Lead a commercially focused People Partnering model embedded across the business, ensuring leaders are equipped to deliver performance, engagement and change
Lead strategic workforce planning and future workforce capability, helping the business evolve for the future of work, including opportunities created through technology and AI
Oversee Employee Relations and Industrial Relations across Virgin Atlantic, ensuring effective governance, constructive union relationships and balanced people decisions
Lead employee voice and engagement approaches, including forums and representative groups
Partner with LT and senior leaders to align people priorities with operational and commercial goals
Drive leadership capability, succession planning and talent outcomes across the organisation
Develop and inspire high-performing People teams, building future capability across the function
Act as a senior deputy to the CPO, contributing to enterprise-wide leadership and organisational decision-making
Continue evolving the People function to ensure it remains modern, commercially impactful and fit for the future
Requirements
Significant senior HR leadership experience in complex, operational and fast-paced environments
Experience leading large-scale People Partnering teams and translating strategy into business delivery
Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance people outcomes with operational performance
Proven experience influencing executive and senior stakeholders in complex organisations
Strong leadership capability, with experience developing high-performing teams and future leaders
Deep expertise across Employee Relations and some Industrial Relations experience including union engagement and ideally collective bargaining
Experience leading organisational change, transformation and workforce planning activity
The credibility, resilience and judgement to operate effectively in high-profile and fast-moving environments
Experience in aviation, hospitality, travel, retail or similarly customer-focused industries
Chartered FCIPD (or equivalent experience), with the capability to operate at enterprise leadership level
Nice to have
Experience in aviation, hospitality, travel, retail or similarly customer-focused industries
Chartered FCIPD (or equivalent experience), with the capability to operate at enterprise leadership level