Head of Human Resources – Lead People Function for Rapidly Growing F&B Chain

About the role

Lead the People function for a fast‑growing restaurant chain operating 50+ locations across Southeast Asia. You will design and own recruiting, culture, retention, training and leadership development for a young, dynamic workforce at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute people strategy and workforce planning for 500+ annual hires, including attrition.
• Own high‑volume talent acquisition across crew and manager levels for 50+ sites.
• Drive culture and engagement initiatives tailored to a fast‑paced F&B environment.
• Design training and development programmes, manager capability building and succession planning.
• Lead retention strategy and analytics to understand drivers of turnover in the restaurant sector.
• Oversee compensation, payroll operations and multi‑country compliance.
• Build and manage an HR team covering recruiting, training and operations specialists.
• Partner with senior leaders to align people decisions with overall business strategy.

Required profile

• 15+ years of people leadership experience, with at least 5 years as a head of HR or equivalent.
• Proven track record building or scaling HR functions for multi‑unit operators or franchise businesses.
• Background in F&B, hospitality or quick‑service restaurants and understanding of high‑turnover environments.
• Demonstrated success in high‑volume hiring and retention programmes.
• Deep insight into engagement drivers for young, frontline workforces.
• Regional HR experience across Asia‑Pacific, handling multi‑country compliance.
• Commercial mindset with ability to assess labour cost and ROI of HR initiatives.
• Growth mindset with comfort learning new HR technologies and tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence senior leaders.
• Ability to give and receive direct feedback and push back when necessary.

What we offer

• Autonomy to design the People function from the ground up.
• Budget to build competitive compensation packages and a strong culture.
• Seat at the strategy table, treating people decisions as core business decisions.
• Real equity upside as the company scales.