People and Culture Director

Department: Human Resources

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: UK

Reporting To: Baba Devani

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

Description

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.

But we’re not stopping there. We have ambitious plans for growth, and we’re looking for driven individuals to be part of our journey. Whether it’s expanding into new customer sectors, entering new markets, launching innovative products, or exploring new distribution models, we’re creating opportunities to shape the future of security.

As we scale, we’re looking for talented individuals who want to make an impact and help shape the future of security solutions. At DeterTech, we offer more than just a job—we offer a career with purpose, development, and recognition.

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. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-growing, technology-driven business, where innovation and collaboration drive everything we do.

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, as it requires regular travel between Telford, London and our EU offices.

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.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Experience

• 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.

Skills & Attributes

• 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

You will consistently demonstrate:

• 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.

Job 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