Our client is appointing a Director to lead its regional HR Business Partners and raise the quality of people decisions across the business.

The mandate

A team of regional partners covering the Kingdom and the international operations

The quality of people decisions in the business: hiring, probation, structure, capability

First line employee relations in region

Site presence on a published rota

The intake route for every people request from the business

Requirements

We are looking for

Someone who has genuinely partnered. You can tell a General Manager he is wrong and keep the relationship

The ability to read a business, not only its headcount. Cost, volume, attrition, productivity

Comfort with ambiguity, and with conflict

Willingness to travel to sites, regularly

Arabic and English

One of the interview questions, published in advance: what in your region will become a problem in three months that nobody has noticed yet.

Saudi nationals are strongly encouraged.