Human Resource Director

Our clients, a Kenyan company in the industrial sector that has expanded its operations into East and West Africa is looking to appoint a seasoned human resource practitioner who will be a key member of the senior leadership team and provide business and functional leadership, capability and direction.

Reporting to the Group Managing Director, the HR Director will be accountable for developing and implementing an integrated people strategy that will meet the needs of this rapidly expanding trans-continental business, where the infrastructure needs to keep pace with the organisations rate of growth, hence significant organization design initiatives and improvements to HR capability are high on the strategic agenda.

The Human Resource Director will partner with respective functional and business leaders to address:

• Organizational redesign and harmonisation.
• Talent attraction and management and succession planning.
• Workforce engagement.
• Customizing world-class performance management initiatives to local markets.
• Leadership coaching. In this role the HR Director will act both as a coach and advisor to senior leadership team to create a performance based culture that delivers against the business strategy.

The following competencies will be the key to successful performance in this role:

• At least two years’ in a management/leadership role, providing gainful insight and practical solutions to business challenges from the human resource perspective.
• Credible human resource practitioner with a minimum of 8 years broad experience in the various areas of human resource management, particularly organisation development and change management.
• Confident and effective manager with good commercial acumen and experience in developing and executing strategy leading to the efficient and sustainable growth of an organisation.
• Outstanding communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships, influence, motivate and encourage consensus amongst peers, employees and partners at all levels to produce high quality results.
• A demonstrated adaptability to change, decisive response to challenges in a changing environment and the ability to influence change within others and cause positive outcomes.
• A track record of delivery, with high levels of drive, initiative and tenacity.
• Experience working in a multi-country environment, particularly East and West Africa will be a significant advantage.

Our client is willing to give an attractive package commensurate with the skill and value the incumbent will bring to the table.

If you are interested in the above position and have the skills we are looking for, we would like to hear from you. Please forward an application letter indicating your suitability to this role, together with a copy of your updated resume and your current salary and benefit package to Susan@tgagroupea.com.

Our client is looking to fill this position immediately and therefore interview process for this position will commence immediately we receive suitable applications.

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