Regional HR Manager

Job description / Role

We are seeking a Regional HR Manager (MARO) to lead and drive strategic HR initiatives across the MARO region. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in aligning HR strategies with business objectives, managing talent acquisition, employee relations, leadership development, and ensuring compliance with local labor laws.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic HR Leadership:
• Partner with the Regional Head to develop and execute HR strategies aligned with the overall business and people plans.
• Provide strategic HR advisory to the regional office team, ensuring that human capital decisions align with business goals.

Talent Management & Acquisition:
• Lead recruitment efforts to ensure the hiring of the right talent for key regional roles.
• Implement talent management and retention programs, including succession planning for critical positions.

Compensation & Performance Management:
• Collaborate with global HR and compensation teams to implement salary and benefits strategies that attract and retain top talent.
• Drive the regional performance and salary review process.

Employee Relations & Compliance:
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws and group policies across multiple countries in the region.
• Address employee relations issues and provide HR guidance to regional leaders.

Change Management & Organizational Development:
• Lead HR aspects of organizational change initiatives, ensuring effective change management strategies.
• Support leaders in fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performance work culture across diverse countries.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:
• Develop HR capabilities within the MARO region to meet both current and future organizational needs.
• Act as the key liaison between local HR teams and the global HR function, ensuring alignment in strategies and policies.

• Degree/Diploma in HR, Business, or related fields with at least 15 years of relevant regional experience in a global firm.
• Proven leadership and people management experience in HR, guiding and developing HR teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Strategic and operational agility, capable of balancing high-level planning with hands-on execution.

About the Company

Bringing the right people together is crucial for the success of any venture, but, success within recruitment is about more than just finding candidates. We recruit with purpose. We hire for a reason; a problem that needs to be solved, an opportunity that cannot be missed.

You don’t decide that you’ve made a great hire on day one, so why should we? Finding the right person is just part of the story.

We understand that bringing new employees on board can have a wide-ranging impact. How we deal with these new employees, the tools and support that we give them, and how we integrate them into the business can be the major difference between success and failure.

We believe that recruitment is only successful when your new hire is happy in their role, has solved your reason for hiring, integrated into your culture, and is adding real value. Success is based on the quality of the long-term impact. Success is making a difference.