HR Director, nexfibre

We are looking for a HR Director to join us at nexfibre based in Paddington London.

The HR Director will lead the development and execution of nexfibres people strategy ensuring the organisation has the capability culture leadership and governance required to scale a national wholesale fibre infrastructure business.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for building a highperforming valuesled organisation while balancing pace discipline and compliance in a highly regulated investorbacked environment. The role will be critical in supporting nexfibres continued growth integration activity and longterm sustainability as a nationalscale platform.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the people foundations of a business that is still being built - with genuine influence complexity and scale.

What will you be doing

People Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and deliver a people strategy aligned to nexfibres business plan growth trajectory and shareholder expectations

• Act as a trusted adviser to the CEO and Executive Committee on organisational design leadership effectiveness succession and talent risks

• Build on a strong inclusive culture that supports accountability collaboration and performance at scale

Organisation Design & Capability

• Lead organisation design as the business scales ensuring clarity of roles decision rights and governance

• Support leadership team development as nexfibre transitions from buildout to operational maturity

• Drive workforce planning across critical capability areas including engineering operations commercial corporate functions

Talent Performance & Reward

• Own senior hiring and succession planning for executive and leadership roles

• Design and oversee performance management reward and incentive frameworks aligned with investorbacked infrastructure best practice

• Ensure consistent fair and commercially aligned approaches to compensation grading and progression

Employee Relations & Governance

• Provide expert leadership on employee relations ensuring issues are managed fairly pragmatically and in line with UK employment law

• Oversee people policies governance and compliance in line with regulatory and shareholder expectations

• Act as escalation point for complex or sensitive people matters

Change Integration & Growth

• Lead people aspects of change programmes including growth integration and transformation activity

• Support effective communication and engagement during periods of change maintaining trust and organisational momentum

• Partner closely with Finance Legal and Operations to ensure people decisions are commercially sound and riskaware

People Function Leadership

• Ensure scalable efficient people processes systems and data to support a growing organisation

• Use insight and analytics to inform decisionmaking and continuous improvement

The ideal candidate

At nexfibre were building a culture that attracts develops and retains top talent. Our values are Open Fast Simple. Our team is driven high-performing and thrives in a fast-paced ever-evolving digital infrastructure industry. Were looking for people who share our passion for connecting communities driving innovation and delivering the next generation of full-fibre networks across the UK.

The successful candidate will bring the following attributes and skills:

• Significant senior HR / People leadership experience ideally in infrastructure telecoms utilities or similarly regulated capitalintensive environments

• Proven experience supporting fastgrowing investorbacked or privateequitybacked organisations

• Strong understanding of UK employment law governance and bestpractice people frameworks

• Experience partnering at executive and board level with credibility and impact

• Demonstrated ability to balance pace pragmatism and rigour in a scaleup context

• Commercial pragmatic and outcomesfocused

• Confident operating with ambiguity and complexity

• High integrity sound judgement and strong emotional intelligence

• Collaborative credible and able to influence at all levels

• Resilient adaptable and comfortable operating at pace

Desirable

• Experience in wholesale B2B or platformbased business models

• Exposure to integration consolidation or major change programmes

• Experience operating in joint venture or multishareholder environments

Whats in it for you

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme

• 25 days annual leave plus the usual 8 UK Bank Holidays

• Bupa private healthcare coverage

• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits critical illness cover dental & optical insurance

• Pension contribution matched up to 10%

• Access to our car benefit scheme via Tusker and our Cycle to Work scheme

• Virgin Media / O2 discounts and offers

About us

nexfibre is building a nationalscale wholesaleonly fullfibre platform backed by worldclass infrastructure investors with an ambition to deliver longterm competition and connectivity across the UK.

In February 2026 nexfibre announced a landmark acquisition that brings together leading fullfibre networks to create a scaled sustainable wholesale platform for the UK. Backed by Liberty Global Telefónica and InfraVia the combined network is expected to reach around 8million premises by 2027 strengthening longterm competition and accelerating the UKs transition from copper to fullfibre connectivity.

We are based in Paddington. The position is full time hybrid with a minimum 3 days based in the office. Nexfibre is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.