Department: Human Resources

Location: UK

Compensation: £80,000 - £90,000 / year

About the Role

As the People and Culture Director, you’ll play a key role in delivering our ambitious growth plans and ensuring our customers receive best-in-class security solutions. You will be accountable for shaping and executing the People and Culture strategy to enable sustainable business performance and growth. As a key member of the Executive Team, you will ensure DeterTech attracts, develops, and retains world-class talent, builds organisational capability, and creates a values-driven culture that empowers colleagues to thrive. This role is hybrid/remote, with regular travel required between Telford, London and our EU offices.

Why Join DeterTech?

At DeterTech, we are driven by a clear purpose: Giving greater peace of mind to people and communities, every day. With a team of 300 colleagues, a £50m turnover, and over 3,000 customer sites across Europe, we are an industry leader in predicting, deterring, and detecting intrusions. By combining cutting-edge technology with real intelligence, we deliver security solutions that make a measurable impact. We’re growing and looking for driven individuals to shape the future of security with us.

At DeterTech, we offer more than just a job—we offer a career with purpose, development, and recognition.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Organisational Design
  • Partner with CEO and Board to shape business strategy and translate it into a people and organisation agenda.
  • Lead workforce planning to align talent, skills, and structure to future growth priorities.
  • Provide strategic HR advice and challenge to CEO and Executive Team.
• Talent, Leadership & Culture
  • Develop and implement strategies for talent acquisition, leadership development, and succession planning.
  • Build organisational capability in line with innovation, customer, and market needs.
  • Champion a high-performance culture that balances accountability with wellbeing.
  • Embed DeterTech’s values into leadership, colleague experience, and recognition programmes.
• Reward, Engagement & Inclusion
  • Lead the design and delivery of reward, recognition, and benefits strategies that drive engagement and retention.
  • Oversee performance management, ensuring alignment to business outcomes and culture.
  • Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to create a culture of belonging and opportunity.
  • Lead colleague engagement, ensuring regular listening, feedback, and action loops.
• People Operations & Governance
  • Ensure efficient, compliant HR operations including payroll, policies, employee relations, and systems.
  • Drive digital HR transformation through data, analytics, and technology platforms.
  • Ensure compliance with employment law, health & safety, and governance standards globally.
  • Provide oversight of risk management relating to people, culture, and organisational resilience.
• Leadership & Influence
  • Act as a trusted advisor to CEO, Executive Team, and Board on all people and culture matters.
  • Represent DeterTech’s people agenda externally with investors, regulators, and industry bodies.
  • Build credibility and visibility across the organisation as a role-model leader.

Key Relationships

• Internal: CEO, COO, CFO, CMO, Engineering Director, Group Operations Director, Country MDs, Executive Team, People Leaders.
• External: Investors, regulators, legal advisors, HR networks, industry partners.

Experience, Skills & Attributes

• Proven track record in senior HR leadership (CPO, Group HR Director, HR VP).
• Experience shaping and delivering people strategies in complex, multi-country organisations.
• Strong background in organisational design, cultural transformation, and leadership development.
• Experience in private equity or investor-backed environments.
• Sector experience in technology, manufacturing, or services desirable.

• Strategic thinker with ability to translate people strategy into measurable business outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at Board and investor level.
• Commercial acumen and data-driven decision-making.
• Exceptional leadership, coaching, and team-building capability.
• Resilient, pragmatic, and able to operate at pace in a dynamic environment.

Behavioural Criteria

• Integrity & Trust – Acts with fairness, transparency, and high ethical standards.
• Commercial Orientation – Connects people and culture outcomes to commercial growth and performance.
• Collaboration & Influence – Builds strong, trusted partnerships across the business and externally.
• Agility & Adaptability – Responds quickly to organisational and market change.
• People Leadership – Empowers, develops, and inspires colleagues at all levels.
• Curiosity & Innovation – Embraces new ideas, technologies, and approaches in HR and culture.
• Inclusive Leadership – Creates a culture of belonging, equity, and wellbeing.
• Execution Excellence – Ensures people plans are delivered with pace, impact, and measurable outcomes.

Benefits

• Alongside a competitive base salary we offer a £9k car allowance and up to 40% annual bonus
• 25+ Days of Holiday
• Healthcare scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Cover 4x salary
• SmartWater Product Pack
• Buy Holiday Scheme
• Employee Recognition Programme