Company Description;

The client is a diversified, multi-venture group operating across both regulated and non-regulated sectors with activities spanning financial services, real assets, trade, technology, and consumer-facing platforms.

The Group is in an active transition from founder-led execution to an institutional, scalable operating model, with centralized shared services, strengthened governance, and disciplined performance management across its portfolio.

Its ventures serve mass-market and enterprise customers across multiple geographies, operating in environments where trust, risk perception, and regulatory credibility are critical to customer decision-making.

Role Purpose;

The Chief People Officer is responsible for defining and executing the group-wide people and corporate services mandate, ensuring alignment between workforce strategy, organisational design, governance, and business performance.

The role carries end-to-end accountability for human capital leadership, corporate administration, facilities, and organisational development, and acts as a key partner to the President and venture leadership teams in driving transformation and execution discipline.

Scope of Role

The role provides oversight across:

• All operating ventures within the group
• Shared corporate services including:
  • Human Resources
  • Facilities & Administration
  • Legal & Compliance (where delegated)
  • Corporate Communications
  • Organisational Development
  • Group-wide transformation and change initiatives

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & People Leadership

• Lead the corporate services strategy, integrating HR, administration, facilities, and communications into a cohesive group framework
• Shape the group’s workforce environment, covering workforce planning, performance management, leadership development, and succession
• Drive organisational transformation, restructuring, and operating-model alignment in collaboration with the President and venture leaders

People & Human Capital Leadership

• Own and execute the People & Culture strategy across the group
• Design and implement performance management, reward, and recognition frameworks
• Lead executive and leadership capability development through structured learning, coaching, and succession programs
• Ensure HR policy harmonisation and compliance with labour laws while fostering engagement, inclusion, and accountability

Corporate Administration, Facilities & Governance Alignment

• Oversee administration and facilities management with a focus on cost efficiency, safety, and workplace productivity
• Supervise legal and compliance functions to uphold internal policy and governance standards, in collaboration with legal advisors
• Ensure alignment and integration between HR, Finance, and IT processes across ventures
• Oversee facilities, logistics, and site administration to ensure operational efficiency and risk control

Key Deliverables;

• Launch and institutionalisation of a Leadership Development & Succession Program
• Standardised HR, payroll, and facilities operations across ventures (ERP-enabled)
• Workplace well-being and engagement framework with measurable KPIs
• Corporate administration and facilities optimisation plan
• Effective change management support for integrations and restructuring initiatives

Core Competencies & Leadership Attributes;

• Strategic human capital management and organisational design
• Change leadership and transformation execution
• Cross-cultural engagement and senior-level communication
• Strong grounding in corporate governance, labour law, and compliance
• High emotional intelligence, executive presence, and coaching capability

Authority & Accountability;

• Full functional authority over all corporate service functions and associated venture leads
• Budgetary oversight for HR, administration, and facilities within approved allocations
• Authority to issue corporate policies, circulars, and guidance within scope (subject to Presidential endorsement)
• Accountability for compliance, culture, service delivery, and people KPIs across the group

Qualifications & Requirements;

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Law, or a related field; Master’s degree (HR, MBA, Organizational Development, Leadership) preferred
• 12+ years of progressive experience in human capital or corporate services, with 5+ years at executive or C-suite level within complex, multi-entity organisations
• Proven leadership of group-wide or shared-services people functions, including workforce planning, organisational design, performance management, and succession
• Strong working knowledge of labour law, corporate governance, compliance, and HR policy harmonisation
• Experience leading organisational transformation, change management, and executive leadership development
• Hands-on exposure to HRIS / ERP implementations and cross-functional integration (HR, Finance, IT)
• High emotional intelligence, executive presence, and strong stakeholder management skills

What Makes This Role Distinct;

• Group-level mandate with influence across multiple ventures
• Direct partnership with the Group President and executive leadership
• Opportunity to institutionalise people, culture, and corporate services at scale
• High impact role at the intersection of strategy, execution, and transformation

Benefits

Compensation;

• Competitive executive compensation package
• Expatriate structures considered depending on profile and location

• Lead the corporate services strategy, integrating HR, administration, facilities, and communications into a cohesive group framework
• Shape the group’s workforce environment, covering workforce planning, performance management, leadership development, and succession
• Drive organisational transformation, restructuring, and operating-model alignment in collaboration with the President and venture leaders
• Own and execute the People & Culture strategy across the group
• Design and implement performance management, reward, and recognition frameworks
• Lead executive and leadership capability development through structured learning, coaching, and succession programs
• Ensure HR policy harmonisation and compliance with labour laws while fostering engagement, inclusion, and accountability
• Oversee administration and facilities management with a focus on cost efficiency, safety, and workplace productivity
• Supervise legal and compliance functions to uphold internal policy and governance standards, in collaboration with legal advisors
• Ensure alignment and integration between HR, Finance, and IT processes across ventures
• Oversee facilities, logistics, and site administration to ensure operational efficiency and risk control

• Strategic human capital management and organisational design
• Change leadership and transformation execution
• Cross-cultural engagement and senior-level communication
• Strong grounding in corporate governance, labour law, and compliance
• High emotional intelligence, executive presence, and coaching capability
• High emotional intelligence, executive presence, and strong stakeholder management skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Law, or a related field; Master’s degree (HR, MBA, Organizational Development, Leadership) preferred
• 12+ years of progressive experience in human capital or corporate services, with 5+ years at executive or C-suite level within complex, multi-entity organisations
• Proven leadership of group-wide or shared-services people functions, including workforce planning, organisational design, performance management, and succession
• Strong working knowledge of labour law, corporate governance, compliance, and HR policy harmonisation
• Experience leading organisational transformation, change management, and executive leadership development
• Hands-on exposure to HRIS / ERP implementations and cross-functional integration (HR, Finance, IT)