Chief People Officer
Company: Clemens Food Group
Location: Hatfield
Posted on: November 29, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Details Description Why Join as Chief People Officer? As a
key member of the executive leadership team, the Chief People
Officer is the architect of Clemens Food Groups people and culture
strategy. This is a role with heart as much as vision: setting the
course for how talent, leadership, and culture fuel business growth
and long-term sustainability. By shaping organizational design,
championing the Clemens Way, and positioning the company as an
employer of choice, the CPO ensures our people are the true
differentiator of our success. With strategic oversight of every
dimension of the people function including total rewards, talent
management, culture, HR technology, and workforce planning the CPO
integrates and future-proofs them in alignment with business
priorities. As a trusted advisor to the CEO, Senior Leadership, and
the Board, this leader brings fresh insight, innovation, and
digital enablement to advance our talent agenda and strengthen
Clemens Food Group leadership position in the industry. The Impact
You’ll Make Be the catalyst for a forward-looking people strategy
fully aligned to our growth ambitions. Shape organizational design
and workforce architecture for scalability, agility, and
resilience. Lead and future proof leadership pipelines and
succession readiness across the enterprise. Integrate compensation,
development, retention, and safety into one cohesive framework that
advances performance and well-being. Modernize HR operations and
digital enablement for consistency, efficiency, and compliance.
What You’ll Do Advise, influence, and partner with the CEO, Senior
Leadership, and the Board on people, culture, and succession
strategies; lead the Compensation Committee with transparency and
rigor. Champion and embed the Clemens Way as the foundation of
culture, ensuring it guides behaviors and informs decisions. Set
the vision for enterprise leadership, learning, and career pathing
that drives internal mobility. Align and empower the HR team to
execute with excellence against strategic priorities. Serve as a
constructive cross-functional challenger to navigate inflection
points, transformations, and crises with clarity and confidence.
What Makes This Role Exciting Play a pivotal role in accelerating a
$3 billion to $5 billion business by elevating our people and
culture strategy to the next level. Lead with a strategic lens,
focusing less on the tactical, and drive transformation across
total rewards, talent, culture, HR tech, and workforce planning.
Join a values-driven culture anchored in accountability, where
ethical leadership and long-term impact guide decisions. What We’re
Looking For 10 years progressive HR leadership; proven success
leading HR strategy for multi-site, multi-business-unit
organizations. Strength in developing and executing HR strategies
in a fast-paced, high-performance culture aligned to business
goals. Breadth across core HR domains (talent acquisition &
development, org development, HR operations, team member safety).
Nice to Have Manufacturing background; leadership experience
outside HR with P&L ownership; Master’s/advanced degree;
SHRM-SCP/SPHR. Skills & Mindset Strategic, systems thinker who
connects people strategy to business outcomes. Enterprise change
leader who modernizes operations and drives digital enablement.
Culture steward who models accountability and ethical leadership.
Your Future Here You’ll help position the company as an employer of
choice, strengthen leadership bench across the enterprise, and
ensure our people strategy remains a true differentiator for years
to come. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals
with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all
applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For
further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from
the Department of Labor.
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