Regional Human Resources Director

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute regional HR strategy aligned with business objectives and growth plans.
• Lead workforce planning and manpower budgeting with executive and business leaders.
• Drive organizational design, role clarity, grading, reporting lines, and workforce optimization.
• Establish regional HR policies, governance frameworks, procedures, and standards.
• Lead performance management and oversee compensation, benefits, salary structures, incentives, and rewards.
• Lead talent management, succession, career and leadership development, and capability building.
• Govern Talent Acquisition and oversee HR operations, including contracts, records, onboarding, offboarding, leave, and employment changes.
• Ensure labor-law and internal-governance compliance; lead complex employee relations, disciplinary, grievance, and performance matters.
• Develop people dashboards and reporting; strengthen culture, engagement, leadership standards, and internal communications.
• Support organizational change, restructuring, succession, and transformation; improve systems, processes, controls, documentation, and automation.
• Build and lead a regional HR team.

Required experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related discipline.
• Typically 12+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant senior HR leadership experience.
• Broad HR experience covering operations, performance and talent management, organizational development, compensation and benefits, and workforce planning.
• Experience advising CEOs, executive management, and business leaders on people and organizational matters.
• Strong knowledge of HR governance, organizational design, workforce planning, performance management, and employment practices.
• Ability to improve HR policies, processes, systems, and management controls.
• Analytical and commercial awareness of headcount budgets, workforce cost, productivity, and organizational efficiency.
• Excellent English command; Arabic is highly advantageous.
• Leadership, communication, stakeholder-management, negotiation, problem-solving, integrity, discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.

Preferred background

• Multi-country, multi-entity, multi-business-unit, or geographically dispersed HR experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience in technology services, IT consulting, professional services, telecommunications, financial services, multinational organizations, or large regional groups is advantageous.
• Experience strengthening HR in a fast-growing or transforming organization is particularly valuable.

Leadership approach