Head of People

Requirements

• Senior HR leadership experience with strong recruitment and organisational development expertise.
• Proven results improving quality of hire, retention, probation outcomes, and performance.
• Hands-on experience auditing end-to-end HR processes, recruitment funnels, and process deviations.
• Strong capability in HR / Recruitment analytics, KPIs, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Experience in performance management, engagement, culture, organisational design, and workforce planning.
• Ability to build practical processes and lead their adoption across different business functions.
• Experience with distributed international teams and awareness of contractor / employment arrangements.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, ownership, and fluent English.
• Plus to have: 
• Russian fluency
• In-house recruitment or HR experience within the construction, real estate, architecture, design, or hospitality industries. Experience hiring for or working directly within these sectors is preferred.

Responsabilities

• Develop and execute People strategy aligned with business needs.
• Lead a lean HR and Recruitment team and improve its effectiveness.
• Strengthen sourcing, candidate assessments, hiring standards, and quality of hire.
• Analyse recruitment funnels and the entire HR lifecycle; track deviations, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Build onboarding, performance management, feedback, retention, and development processes.
• Build a sustainable culture of engagement, accountability, and high performance.
• Establish and continuously improve People dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.
• Adapt people practices to corporate functions, site teams, and potentially hospitality operations.
• Partner with leadership on organisational effectiveness, headcount planning, and employee performance.
• Oversee international People operations and partner with Legal and Finance on compliance.
• Personally drive implementation and adoption of improvements.