Human Resources Lead

Overview

The Opportunity

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Managing Director and leadership team to shape and execute business strategy.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the commercial and operational realities of the business through regular engagement with frontline teams, operational leaders and commercial functions.
• Translate business insight into practical people solutions that improve performance, productivity, engagement and growth.
• Lead organisational design, workforce planning and capability-building initiatives that support long-term expansion.
• Coach, challenge and support senior leaders to create a culture of accountability, inclusion and high performance.
• Use people and business data to identify risks, opportunities and future capability requirements.
• Drive leadership succession, talent development and employee engagement strategies.
• Lead significant change and transformation programmes across a complex multi-country environment.
• Act as the senior interface between the business and specialist people functions, ensuring solutions are aligned to business priorities.

The Individual

• We are seeking a commercially minded People leader who is naturally curious about how businesses operate.
• You are likely to have built your career partnering senior operational and commercial leaders in complex, fast-paced environments where growth, transformation and performance matter.
• The successful candidate will bring:
• A proven track record operating as a trusted advisor to senior executives.
• Deep experience within large, complex, multi-country organisations.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect people strategy directly to business performance.
• A reputation for spending time in the business rather than observing it from a distance.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders through insight, credibility and challenge.
• Demonstrated success leading change, organisation development and growth initiatives.
• Strong understanding of operational and frontline environments.
• Exceptional relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience across the Middle East region would be highly advantageous.
• Arabic and English language capability would be beneficial.
• Why This Role?
• This is an opportunity to influence a significant regional business at a pivotal point in its growth journey.
• The successful individual will work alongside an ambitious Managing Director and leadership team, playing a central role in shaping organisational capability, leadership effectiveness and culture while helping deliver ambitious commercial objectives.