Head of People.

Aspire has partnered with a fast-growing retail beauty brand in Riyadh and is currently hiring for a Head of People. We are seeking an experienced and passionate professional to lead the People function, driving a culture of happiness, engagement, and success. If you are eager to be the best in class and make a significant impact, we want you on this team.

The main impact? Delivering happiness across the business and driving an integrated company culture and delivering flawless People Operations across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Key driver of employee engagement, talent acquisition, and talent retention. Develop the People Strategy by creating annual plans, budgets, and execution.
• Create, coordinate, and manage projects from start to finish to improve and enhance People processes with a strong link to digital applications/tools.
• Build and maintain strong relationships and frequent internal contact with the management team and individual team members.
• Lead the People team: help, develop, coach, train, and motivate employees.
• Coordinate larger operational processes such as new market entry processes.
• Proactively search for, work on, and implement improvements and opportunities that will help to improve KPIs such as recruitment, retention, employee engagement, employee turnover, absence, and visa management.

Requirements:

• Experience with People functions in KSA in a retail organisation, preferably in beauty or luxury.
• Analytical and strong communication (hard and soft) skills.
• Advanced in Excel, PowerPoint, and People systems.
• People management skills, team management, influential and leadership abilities.
• Creative skills, commercial insight, assertiveness, proactivity, flexibility, accuracy, and stress resistance.
• Fluent in English and Arabic.
• Ability to work with governmental authorities.
• Knowledge of local legislation and procedures in People and Labor Law in KSA.

We Are Aspire is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.