Head of People and Culture: Strategy and Growth

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Main Focus Areas Vacancy I Head of People and Culture: Strategy and Growth Lenmed is a respected and fast-growing healthcare group committed to delivering world-class clinical outcomes and exceptional patient care. As a proudly global organisation with a growing international presence, including recent expansion into the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) states, we are deeply invested in the communities we serve and the dedicated professionals who bring our vision to life. Guided by our vision to be a leading global provider of person-centred healthcare driven by compassion, excellence, and innovation, we place people at the heart of everything we do. Our purpose is to create healthy and prosperous communities that inspires us to go beyond care, working collaboratively to ensure sustainable impact across every region we serve. About us: At Lenmed, our strength lies in our people, skilled, compassionate individuals committed to accessible, innovative healthcare. We foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and personal growth, supported by strong leadership and a clear strategic direction. Role Summary: The Head I People & Culture: Strategy and Growth will lead the strategic transformation and modernisation of Lenmed’s People & Culture function, driving process re-engineering, digitalisation, automation, AI adoption and integrated human capital systems to enhance organisational effectiveness and employee experience. The role will partner with executive leadership to develop fit-for-purpose operating models, strengthen organisational capability and lead strategic initiatives that enable business growth, operational efficiency and long-term sustainability across the Group, including support for international expansion. Key Performance Areas: (include but are not limited to) Key Performance Areas: - Translate Lenmed’s People & Culture strategy into an integrated strategic roadmap aligned with Group priorities, business growth objectives, organisational sustainability, and long-term value creation. - Lead the re-engineering, optimisation and standardisation of People & Culture business processes to eliminate inefficiencies, simplify workflows, improve service delivery, and enable scalable, fit-for-purpose people solutions across the Group. - Drive the digital transformation of People & Culture through automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance employee and manager self-service, improve data-driven decision-making, and strengthen the overall employee experience. - Develop and drive the Human Capital Management (HCM) systems strategy and roadmap, evaluating and implementing integrated digital solutions that strengthen employee engagement, performance management, talent management, workforce planning, and people analytics. - Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the People & Culture operating model, ensuring appropriate structures, roles, accountabilities, governance, and service delivery models to support organisational effectiveness, operational efficiency, and business growth. - Drive organisational development and effectiveness initiatives, including organisational design, workforce structures, role clarity, organisational capability development, and change management, ensuring the organisation is appropriately structured and equipped to deliver its strategic objectives. - Partner with executive leadership, hospital management, and Group functions to translate business strategy into workforce and organisational priorities, identifying critical capabilities, future skills requirements, workforce implications, and opportunities to improve productivity and support business expansion. - Lead strategic People & Culture transformation programmes and enterprise-wide initiatives, overseeing prioritisation, governance, implementation, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and benefits realisation to ensure measurable business outcomes. - Strengthen employee engagement and performance management through integrated strategies, processes and systems that enhance the employee experience, embed a culture of accountability, and align individual and organisational performance with Group objectives. - Establish and leverage people analytics, workforce insights and strategic performance dashboards to monitor workforce trends, assess organisational effectiveness, identify people-related risks, and enable evidence-based executive decision-making. - Support Lenmed’s international growth and expansion initiatives through strategic People & Culture project support, including international assignments, cross-border workforce deployment, talent mobility, and the alignment of people practices with relevant local employment and regulatory requirements. - Drive cross-functional collaboration across Group functions and hospitals, ensuring alignment of strategic priorities, effective management of interdependencies and coordinated execution of enterprise-wide People & Culture initiatives. - Establish and monitor performance measures to evaluate the impact and return on investment of People & Culture initiatives, including process efficiency, digital adoption, employee engagement, workforce productivity, and organisational effectiveness. - Champion innovation, continuous improvement and sustainable change adoption across the People & Culture function, building the capabilities, partnerships and digital readiness required to deliver efficient, agile, and future-fit people solutions. Post Requirements: (include but are not limited to) Qualifications and Experience: Qualifications - A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Human Resources Management, Industrial Psychology, Business Management, or a related field. - A relevant postgraduate qualification in Human Resources, Organisational Development, Business Administration, or a related discipline would be advantageous. - Additi

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