Group HR Director: Transformational Leader, GCC

Private Company, LLP; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct exposure to CEO

Executive leadership role

GCC scope across multiple businesses

Impactful organizational change

Job summary

Private Company, LLP in Kuwait City seeks a Group Human Resources Director to lead a multi-unit HR transformation across 2,000+ staff. The role reports to the CEO with broad ownership of people strategies spanning talent acquisition, compensation, learning, and organizational design.

The ideal candidate has 15+ years of HR leadership experience in large, frontline workforce environments and strong GCC market exposure, including Kuwait. Arabic/English proficiency is preferred.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive HR experience with leadership roles.
• Broad ownership of end-to-end HR in large, complex organizations.
• Experience in retail, consumer, FMCG, hospitality, or large frontline workforce environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR strategy across talent acquisition, HR operations, compensation and benefits, performance management, employee relations, and learning.
• Partner with CEO and executives on structure, leadership capability, workforce strategy and growth.
• Strengthen organizational design, grading, and compensation frameworks.
• Improve manpower planning, budgeting, and productivity across GCC operations.
• Upgrade performance management and link individual performance to business results.
• Strengthen senior leadership hiring, succession planning and internal pipelines.
• Enhance recruitment quality, speed, and effectiveness.
• Develop retention strategies for Kuwait and GCC markets.

Skills

HR leadership

Talent acquisition

Organizational design

Manpower planning

Performance management

Executive recruitment

GCC markets experience

Kuwait labor practices

HR analytics

Job description

Private Company, LLP in Kuwait City seeks a Group Human Resources Director to lead a multi-unit HR transformation across 2,000+ staff. The role reports to the CEO with broad ownership of people strategies spanning talent acquisition, compensation, learning, and organizational design.

The ideal candidate has 15+ years of HR leadership experience in large, frontline workforce environments and strong GCC market exposure, including Kuwait. Arabic/English proficiency is preferred.