Lead People Partner

Job description

M-KOPA is hiring a Lead People Partner to own the people agenda for Kenya, its oldest and largest market. Based in Nairobi, the role serves as a strategic advisor to Kenya's leadership team and focuses on organizational design, workforce planning, talent strategy, performance, succession planning, employee relations, and organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor to Kenya's leadership team on organizational design, workforce planning, and business-aligned people strategy.
• Own talent review, performance calibration, and succession planning for the Kenya client group.
• Design and improve people frameworks rather than only administering existing processes.
• Lead employee-relations resolution and serve as an escalation point for the Kenya market.
• Support consistent compliance with Kenyan labour law and the local regulatory environment.
• Drive organizational change initiatives, including restructuring, transformations, and cross-functional project delivery.
• Partner with senior leaders to strengthen retention, development, and workforce effectiveness as the business scales.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive HR / People Partner experience.
• 3-6+ years of experience advising director-level or more senior executives within fast-growth, matrixed organizations.
• Working knowledge of Kenyan labour law and the regulatory environment.
• Direct experience handling employee-relations escalations end to end.
• Demonstrated experience designing and executing organizational-design, workforce-planning, or succession strategies.
• Evidence of having built or materially shaped a people framework rather than only operating an existing one.
• Strong strategic partnering, stakeholder-management, organizational-change, and leadership-advisory capability.

Skills

• HR Business Partnering
• People Strategy