Senior Human Resources Manager - Middle East

The Opportunity

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the Managing Director and regional leadership team to shape and execute business strategy.
• Act as the senior People advisor on organisational capability, leadership, talent, and culture.
• Translate business insights into practical people strategies that improve performance, productivity, engagement, and organisational effectiveness.
• Lead organisational design, workforce planning, talent, and capability initiatives supporting growth and operational excellence.
• Coach, challenge, and support senior leaders to strengthen leadership effectiveness and accountability.
• Use commercial, operational, and people data to identify risks, opportunities, and future capability requirements.
• Drive succession planning, talent development, and leadership pipeline strategies across the region.
• Lead significant transformation and change programmes across a geographically diverse and complex environment.
• Partner with specialist HR functions to align solutions with business priorities and deliver them effectively.
• Build credibility across all organisational levels through visibility, pragmatism, and operational understanding.
• Lead through expertise, influence, and execution rather than direct line management responsibility.

Candidate Profile

• The employer seeks an accomplished People executive with strategic thinking and a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
• The candidate should have experience partnering with senior operational and commercial leaders in large, complex organisations.
• The candidate should be comfortable in boardroom, customer-site, and operational-team environments.
• The role requires personal ownership of solutions and delivery rather than management of a large HR team.

The Successful Candidate Will Bring

• A proven track record advising Managing Directors, Country Managers, Business Unit Leaders, or executive teams.
• Significant experience partnering senior leaders in large, complex, and geographically dispersed organisations.
• Strong commercial acumen linking people strategy to financial and operational performance.
• Experience as a senior individual contributor leading through influence rather than direct management responsibility.
• Experience building deep business understanding and maintaining visibility within operational environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including influencing, challenging, and coaching senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success leading organisational transformation, organisation design, and growth initiatives.
• Strong understanding of operational, industrial, engineering, infrastructure, project-based, or frontline environments.
• Experience navigating complex, multi-country organisational structures and stakeholder groups.
• Experience across the Middle East region is highly advantageous.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English.