Head of People Partnering – Kenya at M-KOPA Solar

What You’ll Do

Lead and develop the Kenya senior people partners who hold substantial books across Kenya sales, retail, manufacturing and logistics

Partner the Kenya MD and leadership team as their primary people counterpart, on structure, talent, culture and the hard conversations about leadership fit as the business scales

Own org design, talent review and succession for the market, and act as the escalation point for employee relations

Hold a focused client group of your own in business management, and customer care and collections

Translate group strategy into what actually happens in Kenya — real decisions, structure and delivery, not a cascade deck

Shape how we’re rebuilding job architecture, competencies and performance across the company — we’re open to doing this differently from the usual HR playbook

We want someone who thinks like a commercial and operational partner first — someone who can look past the standard HR approach when the business genuinely needs something else, and make that call with confidence.

What You Need

Essential Requirements:

Currently a Deputy Head of People or similar — holding your own client group, with a small team reporting to you, reporting into an HR Director or Head of People rather than running the function solo (but with a passion for taking the next step up)

Comfortable close to senior leadership — you’ve built real trust with directors and country leads

Real org design experience — whether built in-house or through consulting, you’ve designed structure and workforce plans, not just executed someone else’s

Working knowledge of Kenyan labor law, with direct experience owning employee relations matters

A business-first instinct — you reach for cost, risk, or growth before you reach for policy, and you can point to a time you made a call that wasn’t the textbook HR answer because the business needed something else

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