Your Responsibilities

Organisational Design & Operating Model

• Design and continuously evolve Numida’s org structure to support ambitious and fast growth, product expansion, and geographic scale
• Define roles, spans of control, decision rights, and accountability across teams
• Lead workforce planning in partnership with Finance and functional leaders
• Support reorganisations and change management with clarity and care

Culture & Change

• Translate Numida’s values into observable leadership behaviors and role model our way of working and expectations for leaders
• Act as a steward of culture during growth, reorganisation, and change
• Maintain employee engagement and trust through transparency and fairness

Leadership Enablement & Manager Effectiveness

• Build and roll out a practical manager framework (expectations, rhythms, feedback, performance)
• Coach senior leaders and people managers
• Design leadership development interventions that are lightweight but effective

Performance, Talent & Succession

• Design performance management systems that reinforce accountability and outcomes
• Build clear career paths and progression frameworks that retain high performers and provide visibility of growth paths across the organization
• Lead succession planning for critical roles
• Ensure underperformance is addressed early and fairly

Scalable People Foundations

• Build simple, robust HR systems, policies, and processes that scale across countries
• Ensure compliance with labor laws and governance requirements across our geographies
• Establish reliable people data and dashboards to support decision-making and insights that build trust in the people function
• Partner with Finance on headcount planning, compensation frameworks, and cost discipline to remove operational frictions

Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years in leadership roles in scaling organizations; People / HR leadership is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in org design, leadership development, and systems building.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels.
• Strong business acumen; able to connect people decisions to financial and operational outcomes.
• Can thoughtfully apply AI to people systems, manager enablement, and decision-making to support scale and efficiency (without over-engineering or losing the human element).
• Deep understanding of East African labor contexts is a strong advantage.
• Self-confidence, integrity, high energy, empathy and a sense of humor to navigate diverse cultural contexts.