The client is seeking a newly created Chief People Officer to serve as a key member of the executive leadership team. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, the Chief People Officer will shape the people, culture, and leadership agenda across a group of multiple service-based businesses with a global workforce. The role will partner with both family principals and professional management teams to align organizational capability with the group’s long-term vision, investment priorities, and growth ambitions.
Operating at the group holding level, the mandate extends beyond traditional HR leadership and will focus on strengthening organizational culture, supporting leadership succession, and building scalable people frameworks to enable sustainable expansion across markets. The Chief People Officer will work closely with business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, leadership development, talent mobility, and performance discipline, while preserving the entrepreneurial heritage and values of a family enterprise. Responsibilities also include group-level organizational design, executive talent strategy, succession planning, leadership and capability development, total rewards philosophy, governance frameworks, and HR transformation.
A key priority will be embedding a cohesive culture across diverse operating companies, ensuring alignment between family ownership principles, professional management practices, and evolving business strategy. The Chief People Officer will also contribute to investment discussions from a people and capability perspective, supporting growth initiatives, new ventures, and portfolio evolution. The successful candidate will bring proven senior HR leadership experience within complex, multi-business or diversified organizations, with highly valued experience working closely with founders, family owners, boards, or principal shareholders, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across different governance models.