Human Resources Director

About the Role

Eaton SAKS International Group is seeking a Human Resources Director to lead the integrated HR function for an established organization in Saudi Arabia's business services sector. This full-time senior leadership position, based in Riyadh, requires a Saudi National with over 10 years of experience. The role combines operational workforce management with corporate HR strategy, focusing on a large, geographically distributed workforce that includes a predominantly frontline and blue-collar employee population (approximately 80%) alongside professional, managerial, and corporate staff (approximately 20%).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead workforce planning, recruitment, and mobilization across multiple operational locations.
• Ensure appropriate manpower availability, deployment, and contractual service continuity in partnership with Operations and Commercial teams.
• Oversee high-volume recruitment, onboarding, workforce transfers, and demobilization processes.
• Improve employee retention, attendance management, and frontline HR service delivery.
• Establish effective employee relations, grievance handling, disciplinary procedures, and workforce welfare standards.
• Lead corporate talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning, and performance management.
• Develop organizational structures, capability frameworks, and people policies aligned with business priorities.
• Ensure compliance with Saudi labor legislation, employment regulations, and Saudization requirements.
• Maintain robust HR governance, employment documentation, employee records, and statutory processes.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to executive leadership on workforce strategy, organizational risks, and people-related business decisions.
• Lead and develop the HR function, ensuring effective coordination between corporate HR teams and site-level HR operations.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated senior HR leadership experience within a large, labor-intensive or multi-site organization.
• Proven accountability for substantial frontline or blue-collar employee populations.
• Strong experience managing both operational workforce requirements and corporate HR functions.
• Measurable achievements in high-volume recruitment, workforce mobilization, employee retention, and HR operational effectiveness.
• Experience working closely with executive leadership and operational stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of Saudi employment regulations, Saudization requirements, and local labor practices.
• Proven capability in leading HR teams, implementing HR governance frameworks, and improving HR systems and processes.

Preferred Industry Background

Candidates with relevant leadership experience in the following sectors are particularly well-suited:

• Business Process Outsourcing and Support Services
• Manpower and Workforce Services
• Industrial and Technical Services
• Infrastructure and Contract-Based Operations
• Logistics and other labor-intensive, multi-site service environments
• Facilities Management

Leadership Attributes

The ideal candidate will demonstrate operational credibility, strategic perspective, commercial acumen, sound judgment, executive influence, and transformation capability. Success will be measured by improved workforce availability and mobilization, reduced attrition and absenteeism, stronger regulatory and payroll controls, enhanced corporate talent management, and effective HR service delivery. A balance of hands-on workforce operations expertise and strategic corporate HR leadership is essential.

Confidentiality Notice

This executive appointment is managed on a strictly confidential basis. The identity of the hiring organization and further details will be disclosed selectively during the recruitment process. Candidates are expected to exercise professional discretion throughout all discussions.