Five minutes with: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home's Director of HR

Bryony Glenn is Director of Human Resources for Battersea Dogs and Cats Home’s and has overall responsibility for the creation and delivery of people strategy, as well as ensuring the charity has the capability and capacity to deliver its ambitious strategy and growth plans. She discusses the challenges and rewards of leading HR for a charity.

In your opinion what is key to any HR role?

To be credible and add any real value to an organisation you really need to understand the company in which you work. You need to know what it currently does and what its strategic vision for the future is. You need to also understand its culture and the capability of its people, and the market and operating environment in which it operates.