Group Head of Human Resources

Full Job Description

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

* The Group HR Manager is a key senior position responsible for heading the HR function in the company and leading and driving change within the people arena;
* Reports directly to the CEO;
* Our client is a family owned conglomerate covering mass retail, luxury retail, food services, investment & real estate, shopping malls, engineering and automotive;
* This is a new senior role which covers all areas of the business except automotive, it is required due to the ongoing rapid expansion of the business;
* The Group HR Manager will be responsible for building a consistent group HR proposition, based on best practice and process across all Middle East markets in which our client operates;
* Required to centralise best practice framework, HR calendar and process for the region;
* Work with key stakeholders to set the people strategy for the group including design and implementation of the most appropriate HR operating model;
* Covers approximately 3500 employees in 4 countries.

SR Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

The ideal candidate will need to match the following profile:

* A strong progressive HR career path, with 10 years plus HR generalist experience;
* Arabic speaker;
* Middle East regional experience is required;
* Retail industry experience is required;
* Demonstrate examples of delivering effective strategic HR initiatives;
* Demonstrate strong influencing and negotiating skills in order to push through change and maintain relationships;
* Demonstrate strong commercial acumen;
* Demonstrate a strong, mature management and leadership style.

About The Company

Frazer Jones identifies Human Resource professionals across all markets in almost every geographical location. Developing long-term business relationships with our clients, Frazer Jones provides honest, commercial and professional advice, consistently delivering great value and the very best candidate introductions for clients.

Our candidate attraction methodology embraces networking, search and advertised selection and we have consistently harnessed new media technology to ensure that we source from the widest geographical range of candidates.

The Frazer Jones team is positioned throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia Pacific
providing a unique network enabling us to successfully identify HR professionals globally who cover several countries or continents.

Over the years, we have worked hard to build a reputation for quality and integrity and our success is based on our detailed market knowledge and our straight-talking approach. With our focus on HR and our global approach, Frazer Jones has been mapping the global HR market since 1996, resulting in exceptional HR candidate shortlists in competitive timeframes.

Our activities encompass the entire HR spectrum, including:

• Talent Management
• Leadership
• Resourcing & Recruitment
• Generalist
• Compensation/Remuneration & Benefits
• Employee Relations
• Industrial Relations
• Organisational Design/Organisational Development
• Change Management
• Consultants – In-house and Management Consultants
• HR Policy
• e-HR
• Expatriate Administration
• HRIS
• Management Development, Learning & Development