DIRECTOR, HR BUSINESS PARTNERING

Ultimate Peaks; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultimate Peaks invites a Director to lead its regional HR Business Partners and improve the quality of people decisions across the business. The role covers the Kingdom and international operations, with accountability for hiring, probation, structure, and capability.

You will lead first-line employee relations in the region, maintain site presence on a published rota, and manage the intake route for every people request. Arabic and English are essential; Saudi nationals are strongly encouraged.

Qualifications

• Experience partnering with senior leaders and managing relationships across functions.
• Ability to read a business: cost, volume, attrition, productivity.
• Comfort with ambiguity and conflict.
• Willingness to travel to sites regularly.
• Arabic and English language proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional HR Business Partners to raise people decisions quality.
• Oversee hiring, probation, structure, and capability decisions.
• Own first-line employee relations in the region.
• Site presence on a published rota.
• Manage the intake route for every people request.

Skills

Partnering

Business acumen

Conflict management

Travel willingness

Arabic & English

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

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.