Group Chief People Officer
A growing regional group is looking for a Group Chief People Officer to lead its people and organizational strategy across multiple countries. Reporting directly to the Group CEO, this person will help build a stronger management team and prepare the organization for continued growth.
A major focus will be developing leaders internally, improving succession coverage and creating consistent standards for leadership, performance and talent management across the group.
Responsibilities
- Advise the CEO and executive team on leadership, workforce, culture and organizational matters.
- Build a group-wide leadership framework covering new managers, senior leaders and executives.
- Coach senior leaders and strengthen accountability, decision-making and management capability.
- Establish succession plans for critical roles and identify high-potential employees, leadership gaps and talent risks.
- Create a regional early-career leadership programme covering recruitment, assessment, job rotations, mentoring and placement.
- Lead organisation design, workforce planning, restructuring and capability reviews as the business grows.
- Set consistent performance-management standards, including KPIs, talent reviews, promotion criteria and underperformance processes.
- Develop group-wide learning and career-development programmes across leadership, functional and technical skills.
- Improve employee engagement, company culture, internal communication and the overall employee experience.
- Oversee strategic hiring and the wider HR function, including compensation, payroll, HR systems, employee relations, policies, compliance and mobility.
Requirements
- At least 12 years of progressive HR or organizational leadership experience, including five years or more in a senior executive role.
- Experience leading a regional or multinational People function across several countries.
- Proven success building leadership-development programmes, internal talent pipelines and succession plans.
- Strong experience in organizational transformation, workforce planning and change management.
- Demonstrated ability to advise and influence CEOs and executive leadership teams.
- Experience coaching senior leaders and improving management effectiveness.
- Strong understanding of performance management, talent assessment and culture development.
- Commercial mindset with sound financial understanding and the ability to use data when making workforce decisions.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Organizational Development or a related field.
- A master's degree or MBA would be an advantage.
