About this role
Head of People Partnering - Kenya
What You’ll Do
- Lead and develop the Kenya senior people partners who hold substantial books across Kenya sales, retail, manufacturing and logistics
- Partner the Kenya MD and leadership team as their primary people counterpart, on structure, talent, culture and the hard conversations about leadership fit as the business scales
- Own org design, talent review and succession for the market, and act as the escalation point for employee relations
- Hold a focused client group of your own in business management, and customer care and collections
- Translate group strategy into what actually happens in Kenya — real decisions, structure and delivery, not a cascade deck
- Shape how we’re rebuilding job architecture, competencies and performance across the company — we’re open to doing this differently from the usual HR playbook
- We want someone who thinks like a commercial and operational partner first — someone who can look past the standard HR approach when the business genuinely needs something else, and make that call with confidence.
What You Need
Essential Requirements:
- Currently a Deputy Head of People or similar — holding your own client group, with a small team reporting to you, reporting into an HR Director or Head of People rather than running the function solo (but with a passion for taking the next step up)
- Comfortable close to senior leadership — you’ve built real trust with directors and country leads
- Real org design experience — whether built in-house or through consulting, you’ve designed structure and workforce plans, not just executed someone else’s
- Working knowledge of Kenyan labor law, with direct experience owning employee relations matters
- A business-first instinct — you reach for cost, risk, or growth before you reach for policy, and you can point to a time you made a call that wasn’t the textbook HR answer because the business needed something else
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