Central Scotland Fractional HR Director

Strategic HR support for growing businesses

Your business may have the HR essentials in place such as contracts, policies and compliant HR processes that reduce legal risk, but a need may arise for a more proactive HR plan which is designed to support business growth or change. 

Alison Bell can provide fractional HR Director level support which is affordable, embedded, senior-level HR expertise on a flexible part-time basis. Working alongside business owners and leadership teams, the focus is on understanding your business strategy and building people plans that support long-term growth and success.

The Fractional HR Director becomes part of your wider leadership team helping move HR from reactive “help I have got an HR issue” to proactive people planning.

What does a Fractional HR Director do?

Support is tailored to the needs of each business, but typically it will involve working with leadership teams to understand business goals and challenges and developing people strategies aligned to the organisation. 

Sometimes the Fractional HR Director will be involved in project delivery or if an organisation has an internal HR function, pans can be developed to allow the team to deliver projects internally.  Examples of HR project work may be:

  • Supporting organisational change and restructuring

  • Reviewing team structure and job design

  • Defining a grading structure and career paths

  • Salary benchmarking and job evaluation

  • Strengthening leadership and management capability

  • Developing HR processes in areas such as absence or performance

  • Helping build positive culture, engagement and retention strategies

  • Focusing on how to build effective succession plans

Is this right for your business?

Fractional HR support may be a good fit if:

  • You don’t need a full-time HR Director but want strategic HR input

  • Your business is growing quickly and you want to ensure your people plans are in place to support that growth

  • You are going through change, restructuring or expansion

  • You have the boxes ticked from an employment law perspective but you want to build a proactive HR function

  • You are looking for affordable senior HR expertise tailored to your organisation

With over 16 years’ experience supporting SMEs as a freelance HR consultant, Alison Bell has developed a strong understanding of the challenges businesses face during periods of growth, change and rapid adaptation. Working closely with business owners and leadership teams, she brings practical, commercially focused HR advice tailored to the realities of growing organisations.

Alongside experience supporting SMEs, Alison also draws on HR experience gained within large organisations including Royal Bank of Scotland, Sky and PwC, combining corporate HR expertise with a practical and flexible approach for small and medium sized businesses.

Client feedback

“Working with Alison has been a genuinely rewarding and collaborative process. OracleBio's senior management team brings a range of experience from a range of organisations and that perspective has been invaluable. By combining that experience with Alison's depth of HR expertise, we have been able to put in place career frameworks that are practical, fair, and, most importantly, designed to support and develop our staff as the company grows.”

For access to a full case study of the work undertaken for OracleBio click here. 

How Fractional HR works

Fractional HR Director Flexible Pricing

Fractional HR support works best as an ongoing relationship, helping to deliver long-term impact.

Support starts from half a day at £300 + VAT, with flexibility to increase support depending on business needs.

There is no long-term commitment — support is designed around your organisation.