Michael Grant

HR Leader

United Kingdom

About

A commercially focused HR leader with a track record of delivering a competitive advantage through building people and organisational capability in market leading businesses across diverse sectors and geographies. Highly effective in working with senior leaders and experienced across the full breadth of HR - underpinned by excellent stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to influence and implement change. Key areas of expertise include leading transformational change, organisational development, business process improvement and operational excellence in human resources.

Experience

  • Associate HR Director at IQVIA
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Interim HR Consultant at Hunter Adams
    Sep 2024 - Jun 2025 · 10 mos

  • Head of People at Spire Healthcare Group plc
    Oct 2020 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    HR Leader accountable for the full scope of HR delivery for the Spire Scotland and UK Diagnostics business - revenue £108M and 980 colleagues. Created and implemented the people plans - transforming performance across business lines with improved profitability / efficiency, reduced cost base and delivering a step change in colleague engagement.

  • Head of HR Change (FTC project role) at The Weir Group PLC
    Mar 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Developed and implemented the global HR Change Approach to deliver the HR transformation programme - including the change management, learning and communications approach for the implementation of Workday and Service Now - across 3 stand-alone Divisions with 14,000 colleagues in 70 countries.

  • CBRE (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Head of HR - Global Data Centre Solutions - CBRE
      Dec 2016 - Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      HR Leader accountable for the organisational and capability development for a new service line in the Global Workplace Services division - annual revenue $540m and 2,400 colleagues. Created and implemented the HR strategy to support growth in revenue from $280m in 2016 to $540m in 2018 and headcount growth of 1,600. Led the HR team comprising 4 HR Business Partners and Talent Acquisition Leader covering Europe, North America and APAC.

    • HR Director - Corporate Services Division
      Feb 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      HR Director for the Corporate Services Division - comprising 8 business units with £160M annual revenue and 3,200 colleagues. Key member of the Divisional Leadership group focused on developing and delivering the people and organisational capabilities to deliver exceptional service and profitable growth across accounts. This role covered the full mix of HR from TUPE/ARD consultation through change management, talent and capability building.