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.