AsHR Director, you’ll sit on our UK leadership team and be a strategic partner to the UK MD. You’ll bring fresh thinking, challenge constructively, and help shape a business that’s agile, performance-driven and people-first.

We’re looking for someone who’s as comfortable in the boardroom as they are rolling up their sleeves to modernise operations, coach leaders, and lead meaningful change.

About Cross Rental Services:

Cross Rental Services is the UK & Ireland’s leading specialist asset rental business, delivering cutting-edge HVAC, refrigeration, and catering hire solutions. Formed through strategic acquisitions, our team operates across multiple UK sites in a fast-paced, operationally complex environment.

Backed by private equity, we are on an ambitious growth journey, focused on accelerating sales, professionalising operations, and driving excellence.

Guided by our core values—Respect, Accountability, Teamwork, Commitment, and Integrity—we offer a dynamic workplace where innovation and impact thrive.

What You’ll Do:

• Shape and deliver a forward-looking People Plan that supports growth and capability
• Lead a high-performing HR team and model great leadership across the business
• Build trusted partnerships with senior leaders — advising, challenging, facilitating
• Modernise people operations, systems and processes to improve employee experience
• Lead on culture, OD, onboarding redesign, leadership development and more
• Champion continuous improvement, accountability and innovation

Who are you:

• Proven HR leadership in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment
• A rare mix of strategic thinking and operational edge
• Confidence, emotional intelligence and a pragmatic, sleeves-up approach
• Track record of delivering real change in culture, systems and capability
• A people-centred style that gets things done and builds trust

What we offer:

• Competitive salary with car allowance
• Flexible 0.6 FTE, ideally over 4 days
• Hybrid working with 2 days per week in Andover
• 25 days’ holiday, pension, private medical insurance, life assurance & eyecare scheme.

Our Mission:

• We are customer centric. That means we provide excellent and agile service, which is right first time, every time.
• We are trusted partners. That means our customers trust us to work with them to solve complex engineering problems with precision.
• We are innovators. That means we use our expertise to grow our business, constantly looking for opportunity to innovate and improve.
• We are one team. We aim to grow talent by fostering pride and passion in the business, developing our people through education and having fun.

Click “Apply” or send your CV to recruitment@crossrental.co.uk

Proven HR leadership experience in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment • Strong blend of strategic thinking and operational delivery—comfortable in the detail and at the table