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ROLE PURPOSE The Group Human Resources Manager owns and runs the human resources function for the entire Group - a diversified investment holding structure operating across real estate, construction, engineering, FMCG and consumer electronics distribution, manufacturing and retail, in the GCC, the United Kingdom and Europe. The role exists to build one coherent people architecture across businesses that differ enormously in workforce profile: a white-collar professional cadre in real estate and engineering; a large blue-collar and site-based workforce in construction and factories; a high-turnover, commission-driven population in retail and distribution; and a regulated, works-council-facing employee base in the UK and Europe. The holder is expected to move fluently between setting Group HR policy and standing on a site in 45-degree heat verifying that accommodation, wages and welfare are in order. This is a hands-on leadership role, not a purely strategic one. Job Description - Group Human Resources Manager Page 2 of 1 3. SCOPE AND OPERATING CONTEXTFull functional ownership of HR across all operating entities, free zone and mainland licenses, joint ventures and overseas subsidiaries.\nAccountability for the Group's total headcount across executive, professional, technical, skilled trade, semi-skilled and unskilled categories.\nCustodian of the Group manpower budget, payroll cost, and all people-related statutory and contractual liabilities including end-of-service benefits and pension obligations.\nSingle point of accountability to the Board for people risk - labor law breaches, nationalization quota shortfalls, wage protection failures, workforce welfare incidents and reputational exposure in the supply chain.\nPrincipal interface with MOHRE, GDRFA, free zone authorities, MOHRE-equivalent bodies across the GCC, and with UK and EU regulators, external counsel and works councils. 4. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 4.1 HR Strategy, Structure and Governance\nTranslate the Group's business strategy and diversification plans into a multi-year people strategy covering workforce shape, capability, cost and succession.\nDesign and maintain the Group organization structure - entity by entity - including grading architecture, job families, spans of control and delegation of authority for people decisions.\nDraft, obtain approval for and maintain the Group HR Policy Manual and employee handbooks, localized for each jurisdiction while preserving a common Group standard.\nEstablish HR governance: a Group HR calendar, delegation matrices, approval thresholds for hiring and salary decisions, and a consistent set of controls applied equally to family, expatriate and national employees.\nAdvise the Board and business unit heads on the people implications of acquisitions, disposals, new market entries, factory commissioning and store openings, including due diligence and post-merger integration of HR.\nLead the selection, implementation and ongoing administration of a Group-wide HRIS capable of multi- country, multi-currency, multi-language operation. 4.2 Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning\nBuild a consolidated Group manpower plan reconciled to the annual budget, project pipeline, seasonal retail peaks and factory production schedules.\nOwn end-to-end recruitment for senior and critical roles across all sectors and geographies; hold recruitment agencies, overseas manpower suppliers and executive search firms to Group service and ethical-recruitment standards.\nManage large-scale blue-collar mobilization and demobilization for construction projects and factory ramp-ups - source country selection, licensed supplier vetting, contract transparency, medical screening, visa processing and arrival induction.\nEnforce a strict no-recruitment-fee policy for migrant workers and audit the supply chain for compliance, protecting the Group against forced-labor and modern-slavery exposure in its UK and European trading relationships. Job Description - Group Human Resources Manager\nDevelop employer branding and a national-talent attraction proposition capable of competing for Emirati and other GCC national candidates against government and banking employers. 4.3 GCC Nationalisation and Labour Compliance\nOwn the Group's Emiratization position under the MOHRE framework: maintain the required percentage of UAE nationals in skilled roles for entities with fifty or more skilled employees, meet the separate obligation applying to smaller entities in designated sectors, and ensure every counted hire is genuinely employed, registered with the pension authority and paid through the Wages Protection System.\nTrack the mid-year and year-end MOHRE compliance checkpoints and ensure the Group is never exposed to per-hire monthly contributions, work permit suspensions or establishment classification downgrades.\nRegister and manage Group entities and candidates on NAFIS, and use available subsidy, training and salary-support programmes to make national hiring commercially sustainable.\nManage equivalent nationalisation obligations in other GCC markets - Saudisation and Nitaqat banding via Qiwa and GOSI registration in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Omanisation, Qatarisation, Kuwaitisation and Bahrainisation requirements where the Group operates.\nGuarantee full compliance with UAE Federal Decree-Law on the Regulation of Labour Relations and its executive regulations, including contract types and renewals, working hours, overtime, leave entitlements, probation and notice rules, and end-of-service gratuity calculation.\nAdminister the Wages Protection System across all UAE entities with zero late or short filings; maintain equivalent wage protection compliance in other GCC jurisdictions.\nOversee the Group's transition to and ongoing administration of mandatory alternative end-of-service and savings schemes, unemployment insurance enrolment, and any successor arrangements as they are introduced.\nManage all visa, work permit, labour card, Emirates ID, medical and immigration processes through the Group PRO function, including establishment card renewals, quota applications and free zone requirements.\nRepresent the Group in labour disputes before MOHRE and the labour courts, and in equivalent forums across the GCC, working with external counsel to settle matters efficiently and without precedent- setting exposure. 4.4 United Kingdom and European Employment Compliance\nHold Group accountability for UK employment law compliance: written statements of particulars, statutory sick and family leave, working time limits, minimum and living wage rates, redundancy consultation, and unfair and constructive dismissal risk management.\nManage right-to-work verification and sponsor licence obligations, including record keeping, reporting duties and compliance-visit readiness where the Group holds a sponsor licence.\nAssess and manage off-payroll working and contractor status determinations, ensuring the Group's use of consultants and interim staff is correctly characterised and taxed.\nAdvise on and execute TUPE processes arising from acquisitions, outsourcing, site transfers and contract changes, including measures letters, information and consultation obligations and employee representative elections.\nManage relationships with works councils, European employee representative bodies and recognised trade unions where these exist, including collective consultation and collective bargaining. Job Description - Group Human Resources Manager\nEnsure employee data handling across the Group meets UK GDPR and EU GDPR standards, and that transfers of personal data from the UK and EU to the Middle East are supported by a lawful transfer mechanism.\nTrack and implement changes flowing from evolving UK and EU employment legislation, including pay transparency and gender pay gap reporting obligations, and corporate sustainability and supply chain due diligence requirements as they bite on the Group's European operations. 4.5 Blue-Collar Workforce, Welfare and Accommodation\nOwn the welfare standard for the Group's site-based and factory workforce and hold operating companies to it without exception.\nOversee labour accommodation across all locations - occupancy density, sanitation, kitchen and dining facilities, potable water, air conditioning, fire safety, first aid, recreation and internet access - against both statutory minimums and the Group's own higher internal standard.\nEstablish a documented inspection regime for camps, messing and transport, with recorded findings, corrective action tracking and escalation to the Board where standards are not met.\nEnforce midday break rules during the summer months, heat stress prevention protocols, and safe worker transport standards including seat belts, capacity limits and driver hours.\nGuarantee that no worker's passport is retained, that wages are paid in full and on time, and that grievance channels are available to workers in their own languages with translation support and camp- based welfare officers.\nCoordinate closely with HSE leadership on incident investigation, workers' compensation, medical repatriation and next-of-kin matters, and manage these events with dignity and speed.\nManage large-scale demobilisation at project completion - final settlements, gratuity, ticketing, visa cancellation and redeployment across the Group where possible. 4.6 Performance, Reward and Talent Development\nDesign and run a Group performance management cycle with objectives cascaded from business unit plans, mid-year reviews, calibration sessions and a clear link to reward and advancement.\nOwn the Group compensation and benefits framework: salary structures benchmarked by sector and market, sales incentive and commission plans for distribution and retail, project bonus schemes for construction, and long-term incentives for senior leadership.\nConduct annual salary review and bonus processes within approved budgets, with defensible internal equity and market positioning across very different labour markets.\nBuild succession plans and talent pipelines for the top two to three organisational layers in every business unit, with particular attention to reducing key-person dependency.\nEstablish a Group learning agenda covering technical and trade skills, retail and sales capability, supervisory development for site foremen and store managers, leadership development, and mandatory compliance training.\nDevelop national talent through structured graduate, internship and accelerated development programmes designed to make nationalisation a genuine capability investment rather than a compliance exercise. 4.7 Employee Relations, Culture and Ethics\nAct as the final internal authority on disciplinary, grievance, harassment and whistleblowing matters, ensuring investigations are prompt, impartial and properly documented. Job Description - Group Human Resources Manager Page 5 of 1\nFoster a consistent Group culture and set of values across a workforce spanning many nationalities, languages, faiths and educational backgrounds.\nOwn the Group's code of conduct, anti-bribery and conflict-of-interest declarations as they apply to employees, and run the associated training and attestation cycles.\nManage sensitive matters involving family shareholders, senior executives and long-service employees with discretion and sound judgement.\nDesign and act on employee engagement measurement, exit interview analysis and retention interventions, particularly in high-turnover retail and distribution populations. 4.8 HR Operations, Payroll and Reporting\nEnsure accurate, on-time payroll for all employees in all jurisdictions and currencies, with correct treatment of overtime, allowances, deductions, statutory contributions and tax where applicable.\nMaintain complete and audit-ready employee records, contracts, visas and licences, and ensure no employee ever works on an expired document.\nProduce a monthly Group people dashboard for the Board covering headcount, cost, attrition,...","description_format":"text","description_chars":16266,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Filipino","level":"All levels","optional":true},{"language":"Arabic","level":"All levels","optional":true},{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Equity","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["FMCG & Consumer Brand Groups","Consumer Electronics","Real Estate"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T04:24:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":71,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.794,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":12,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ultiwiseconsult-hr-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ultiwiseconsult-hr-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T20:57:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32124,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4423334},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4423334"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fultiwiseconsult-hr-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fultiwiseconsult-hr-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fultiwiseconsult-hr-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ultiwiseconsult-hr-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fultiwiseconsult-hr-lead"}]}