DIRECTOR, HR BUSINESS PARTNERING

Ultimate Peaks Talent & Strategy; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultimate Peaks Talent & Strategy is seeking a Director to lead its regional HR Business Partners, shaping people decisions across the business in the Kingdom and international operations.

You will govern hiring, probation, structure, and capability, drive first-line employee relations in the region, and ensure consistent HR delivery with a published site rota and a clear intake route for every people request.

Qualifications

• Genuine partnering with senior leaders and GM</span>
• Ability to read a business: cost, volume, attrition, productivity
• Comfort with ambiguity and conflict
• Willingness to travel regularly to sites
• Fluency in Arabic and English
• Saudi nationals strongly encouraged

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of regional HR Partners across the Kingdom and international ops
• Improve the quality of people decisions: hiring, probation, structure, capability
• Lead first-line employee relations in the region
• Maintain site presence on a published rota
• Own the intake route for every people request from the business

Skills

HR partnership

Business acumen

Arabic + English

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's in HR or related field

Job description

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.