HR Consultancy Team Lead
This is a Permanent, vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
We’re looking for an experienced HR Consultant Team Lead to join our international HR Consulting function. This is a dual‑purpose role combining people leadership with hands‑on delivery of complex client work.
You will lead a team of international HR consultants while managing your own portfolio of senior client accounts. This role suits someone confident setting standards and acting as a trusted advisor to multinational organisations.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of international HR consultants, ensuring consistent, compliant, and timely delivery.
- Take ownership of service quality and client satisfaction, working within agreed frameworks, KPIs, and data protection standards.
- Personally manage complex client accounts, providing senior advisory support on employment law, compensation and benefits, immigration, and HR policy.
- Guide clients through high‑impact situations, including restructures, M&A activity, terminations, and cross‑border employee mobility.
- Oversee the preparation and quality of key client deliverables, such as employment contracts, handbooks, policies, and legislation summaries.
- Work closely with payroll operations and external partners to ensure aligned and seamless client delivery.
- Support account growth through opportunity identification, proposals, and client pitches.
- Stay up to date with international employment law changes, sharing knowledge across the team.
- Act as a senior point of escalation for complex client queries and complaints.
- Contribute to financial audits by providing records and documentation when required.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience in international HR consulting or an HR advisory role, with strong knowledge of employment law and HR practices.
- A demonstrated track record of leading teams, with clear examples of coaching, development, and results.
- Hands‑on experience advising clients on employment contracts, compensation and benefits, HR policy, immigration, and restructuring.
- Confidence managing complex client relationships where expectations, risk, and judgement are high.
- Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Fluent English is essential, with additional European languages a strong advantage.
Why Join Us?
- A senior role combining leadership and hands‑on client impact.
- Exposure to complex international HR challenges across multiple jurisdictions.
- Real opportunity to shape standards and develop consulting talent.
- A collaborative, high‑performing environment that values expertise and accountability.
Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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