DIRECTOR, HR BUSINESS PARTNERING

• 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.