Head of People & Culture
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Define and evolve organizational culture, design people experiences, provide strategic leadership, and innovate people practices while enabling leadership and ensuring governance.
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Culture & Organisational Evolution
- Act as a culture architect, defining and evolving values, behaviours and ways of working
- Design people experiences that enable trust, creativity, accountability and high performance
- Push the organisation toward more modern, progressive, and future-ready people practices
Strategic Leadership
- Being part of the leadership board, partner with senior management as a strategic advisor on organisational design, growth and culture
- Translate business ambition into people strategies that unlock long-term performance
- Influence at the highest levels, shaping how leadership thinks about people and culture
Innovation In People & Culture
- Introduce bold ideas, frameworks and systems that move beyond traditional HR models
- Challenge legacy thinking and experiment with new approaches to performance, engagement and growth
- Build people systems that are scalable, human-centred and data-informed, not bureaucratic
Leadership Enablement
- Coach and enable leaders to lead teams with confidence, empathy and clarity
- Build leadership capability in managing performance, change and growth
- Foster psychological safety, ownership and accountability across the organisation
Governance (Supported, Not Central)
- Oversee People & Culture operations at a strategic level, with execution managed by your team
- Ensure compliance frameworks exist across regions without becoming compliance-led or process-heavy
- Balance freedom and structure - keeping systems light, pragmatic and trust-based
Experience & Perspective
- Experience working with or across the UAE, KSA, Germany is valuable, but deep technical labour law expertise is not the priority - Regional labour law knowledge can be supported by specialists - vision, strategy and leadership cannot - Background in creative, experiential, project-based or innovation-driven environments is a strong advantage
Capabilities
- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate vision into action - High emotional intelligence and influence at senior levels - Excellent communication, storytelling, and alignment skills - Comfortable navigating ambiguity, growth, and transformation
Mindset
- Curious, bold and experimental - Willing to try, test, learn and evolve - Motivated by building something meaningful rather than maintaining the status quo
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