Group Head of People
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About the Role
noon is seeking a Group Head of People to own the People agenda for the entire Group, including org design, talent, reward, succession, and leadership decisions.
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Responsibilities
- Own the org design, talent, and workforce plan to deliver noon's ambition
- Build how noon attracts and hires — sourcing, hiring bar, interview machine, employer brand
- Own leadership succession and lead senior hires
- Own compensation, career ladder, and incentive architecture as Group standard
- Run performance cycle Group wide, drive calibration, hold businesses to the bar
- Steward noon's values and standards consistently across markets
- Own the data standard and people scorecard for evidence based decisions
- Set the Group standard for decentralized People leads and hold consistency
- Define how the People function runs, its cost to serve, and govern local HR layers
- Be the trusted counsel for Group Leadership on people, org, and leadership calls
Requirements
- World class education and credentials
- History of operating at a high bar — leading people at scale or strategy background moving into building organisations
- Real business fluency — ability to read a P&L and build people plans from business needs
- Deep command of compensation, workforce planning, and organisational design
- Fluent with data — owns numbers behind people decisions
- Comfortable owning succession and senior hiring
- Sharp interpersonal range — comfortable with operators, engineers, founders, and execs
- Calm under pressure, at ease with ambiguity, relentlessly execution driven
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About us
- noon is Middle East's homegrown digital champion spanning e commerce, quick commerce, fintech, and logistics.
- We serve millions of customers daily across UAE, KSA, and Egypt with 10,000+ employees.
The role
- Own the People agenda for the entire Group: org design, talent, reward, standards, succession, and leadership decisions.
- Report to Group COO, sit at Group Leadership table, act as genuine partner on company shaping choices.
- Set the standard and hold the Group to it as the people function becomes a competitive advantage.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- Turn noon's ambition into org design, talent, and workforce plan.
- Build talent engine: sourcing, hiring bar, interview machine, employer brand.
- Own leadership succession and senior hiring.
- Own compensation, career ladder, and incentive architecture.
- Run performance cycle Group wide, drive calibration.
- Steward culture and values consistently across markets.
- Own data standard and people scorecard.
- Set Group standard for decentralized People leads.
- Define People function operating model and cost to serve.
- Be trusted counsel on people, org, and leadership calls.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- World class education and credentials.
- History of operating at a high bar — leading people at scale or strategy background.
- Real business fluency — read a P&L as easily as an org chart.
- Deep command of compensation, workforce planning, and organisational design.
- Fluent with data — own numbers behind people decisions.
- Comfortable owning succession and senior hiring.
- Sharp interpersonal range with operators, engineers, founders, and execs.
- Calm under pressure, at ease with ambiguity, relentlessly execution driven.
Bonus points
- Middle East market experience
- Fast scaling tech or e commerce exposure
- Having built or scaled a function through hypergrowth.
WHO'LL EXCEL
- High standards, hard work matters.
- Relentlessly resourceful, bias for action, courage to be fiercely original.
- Ready to adapt, pivot, and learn.
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