About the Role:

Looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior HR Manager - Group HR to build and lead the Groups human resources function across its businesses. The role will combine strategic people leadership with strong execution, while driving the Groups HR systems, culture, talent agenda, AI-enabled transformation and broader cultural transformation.

This is a hands-on leadership role for an HR professional who can partner with senior management on organisation and talent decisions and personally drive implementation across the Group.

Strategic Responsibilities:

- Partner with Group leadership on organisation design, workforce strategy, leadership capability and succession.

- Translate business strategy and growth priorities into a clear people strategy and annual HR roadmap.

- Shape culture, leadership standards, performance, rewards and talent philosophy.

- Anticipate future capability requirements, including skills required for technology and AI-enabled business transformation.

- Provide data-driven people insights to support organisation, workforce and talent decisions.

Execution Responsibilities:

- Own implementation of HR systems, policies, processes and annual people programmes.

- Personally drive critical and senior hiring, onboarding, performance cycles, compensation reviews and employee interventions.

- Set clear owners, timelines and governance for HR initiatives and track delivery against milestones.

- Build practical, scalable HR processes across Group businesses while accommodating business-specific needs.

- Resolve operational HR issues quickly and maintain high standards of confidentiality, compliance and employee experience.

AI Transformation & Digital HR:

- Develop an AI-enabled HR roadmap identifying high-impact use cases across recruitment, onboarding, learning, performance management, employee engagement and HR operations.

- Evaluate and implement appropriate AI, automation and HR technology solutions with business and technology stakeholders.

- Use AI and automation to reduce manual administration, improve turnaround times and enhance employee experience.

- Build HR dashboards and people analytics covering hiring, attrition, performance, productivity, talent and workforce costs.

- Prepare employees and managers for AI-driven changes in roles, skills and ways of working.

- Establish responsible AI governance covering data privacy, confidentiality, human oversight and compliance.

- Champion a digitally enabled, process-led and increasingly self-service HR function.

Cultural Transformation & Change Management:

- Lead a deliberate cultural transformation agenda to build a high-performance, accountable, collaborative and future-ready organisation.

- Track cultural transformation through measurable indicators such as engagement, retention, internal mobility, leadership effectiveness, performance differentiation and employee feedback.

- Develop manager capability so people managers become active owners of culture, engagement and performance.

- Create mechanisms to recognise and reward behaviours that reinforce the desired culture.

- Strengthen internal communication so employees understand the Groups strategy, priorities, changes and expectations.

- Design and execute change-management programmes for organisational, technology, AI and process transformation.

- Identify cultural gaps through employee feedback, engagement surveys, attrition patterns, performance data and leadership discussions.

- Work with Group leadership and business heads to role-model the desired culture and drive behavioural change from the top.

- Build a culture of ownership, accountability, meritocracy, collaboration, customer focus and continuous improvement.

- Translate cultural aspirations into observable behaviours, management practices and people processes across the employee lifecycle.

- Define and embed a clear set of Group values, behaviours and leadership expectations aligned with Groups growth ambitions.

Candidate Profile:

- 10-15 years of relevant HR experience, preferably across multiple businesses or entities.

- Experience in a growing, entrepreneurial or professionally managed organisation.

- Strong experience in organisation design, talent acquisition, performance management, compensation and HR systems.

- Demonstrated experience in senior and critical hiring.

- Strong digital orientation and practical understanding of AI, automation, HRIS and people analytics.

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.

- Ability to work independently with promoters, senior management and business heads.

- High maturity, discretion and confidentiality.

- Strong commercial understanding and ability to connect people strategy with business objectives.

Preferred Experience:

- Real estate

- Investment / financial services

- Retail or hospitality

- Professional services

- Family-owned or promoter-led businesses

- Multi-business / diversified groups