Head of Human Resources at SPIRO – Harare
Employer: SPIRO | Location: Harare | Category: Human Resources & Recruitment
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Job Description
The Head of Human Resources will establish and lead the people agenda for Spiro's Zimbabwe operations. This leader will build the HR function, enable rapid and disciplined workforce growth, strengthen leadership capability, and ensure a compliant, engaging and performance-oriented employee environment.
Key responsibilities include translating business plans into an integrated country people strategy and workforce plan, leading talent acquisition and onboarding across all organizational levels, and establishing practical HR policies, governance, employee records, and core people processes aligned with local requirements and group standards. The role involves advising country leadership on organization design, capability requirements, succession, and workforce productivity, as well as owning performance management, objective setting, talent reviews, learning priorities, and leadership development.
This position also requires managing employee relations, disciplinary matters, grievances, and labor-law compliance with consistency and sound judgement. The Head of HR will guide compensation, benefits, and reward practices to support internal equity, market competitiveness, and affordability, while building a credible HR team and fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, safety, and employee engagement.
Leadership attributes for this role include a strategic perspective with a strong bias for execution, high integrity, ownership, and comfort working in an evolving environment. The successful candidate will have the ability to build teams, processes, and stakeholder trust from an early stage, along with a collaborative leadership style, clear communication, and sound judgement.
Key responsibilities include translating business plans into an integrated country people strategy and workforce plan, leading talent acquisition and onboarding across all organizational levels, and establishing practical HR policies, governance, employee records, and core people processes aligned with local requirements and group standards. The role involves advising country leadership on organization design, capability requirements, succession, and workforce productivity, as well as owning performance management, objective setting, talent reviews, learning priorities, and leadership development.
This position also requires managing employee relations, disciplinary matters, grievances, and labor-law compliance with consistency and sound judgement. The Head of HR will guide compensation, benefits, and reward practices to support internal equity, market competitiveness, and affordability, while building a credible HR team and fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, safety, and employee engagement.
Leadership attributes for this role include a strategic perspective with a strong bias for execution, high integrity, ownership, and comfort working in an evolving environment. The successful candidate will have the ability to build teams, processes, and stakeholder trust from an early stage, along with a collaborative leadership style, clear communication, and sound judgement.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline.
- Typically 10-15 years of broad HR experience, including senior HR leadership.
- Demonstrated experience building HR operations in a fast-growing or developing organization.
- Strong talent acquisition, employee relations, organizational development and stakeholder-management capability.
- Knowledge of the Zimbabwe labor environment and/or experience in African markets is highly advantageous.
- Fluent French is strongly preferred; business English capability is advantageous.
- Typically 10-15 years of broad HR experience, including senior HR leadership.
- Demonstrated experience building HR operations in a fast-growing or developing organization.
- Strong talent acquisition, employee relations, organizational development and stakeholder-management capability.
- Knowledge of the Zimbabwe labor environment and/or experience in African markets is highly advantageous.
- Fluent French is strongly preferred; business English capability is advantageous.
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