Job Description

Contexte et environnement

• Operates in a complex and evolving employment, legal and regulatory environment with multiple government, labour and petroleum sector stakeholders.
• Requires the ability to combine long-term strategic leadership with timely operational decisions and confidential case management.
• Works across diverse employee populations and functional priorities while safeguarding fairness, business continuity and Company reputation.
• Must balance local legal requirements, affiliate accountability and Group or M&S policies and standards.
• Requires strong judgement, credibility, collaboration, communication, negotiation and change-leadership capability.
• Handles sensitive personal, legal, employee relations and corporate information and must maintain strict confidentiality and appropriate access controls.
• Requires disciplined delegation, follow-up, risk escalation and evidence-based decision-making.
  
  

Activités

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE

• Serve as a member of the Executive Committee and act as strategic adviser to the Managing Director and business leaders on people, organization, legal, governance, corporate affairs and administration matters.
• Translate Company, Marketing & Services and affiliate priorities into integrated HR and Legal strategies, annual roadmaps, budgets, controls and measurable objectives.
• Lead, develop and coordinate the Human Resources, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Communication and Administration teams, ensuring clear accountabilities, appropriate segregation of duties and effective succession coverage.
• Ensure activities are performed within approved policies, procedures, internal control requirements and delegations of authority, with timely escalation of material risks.
  
  

HUMAN RESOURCES

• HR strategy, governance and workforce planning
• Define and implement the affiliate HR strategy in alignment with business priorities, Group and M&S HR policies, Tanzania labor requirements and the affiliate social context.
• Maintain an HR operating model with clear processes, responsibilities, service standards, controls, calendars and decision rights.
• Lead workforce planning, headcount forecasting, organization reviews and people-cost planning, including permanent, contracted, graduate and expatriate populations.
• Advise management on organization design, job descriptions, grading, workforce productivity, critical roles and capability requirements.
• Organization and employment management
• Ensure organization structures, positions, job descriptions, employment contracts and employee records are accurate, approved and regularly updated.
• Oversee employment administration throughout the employee lifecycle and ensure consistent application of employment terms, policies and management decisions.
• Monitor HR statutory and internal compliance, regulatory developments, audit actions and remediation plans.
• Training and Development
• Ensure training needs analysis is completed and translated into an approved annual development plan and budget.
• Govern mandatory, technical, managerial and behavioral learning and monitor access, completion, learning transfer and business impact.
• Build management capability and ensure employees who attend significant programmes cascade relevant learning within the affiliate.
• Compensation, benefits and payroll governance
• Direct compensation and benefits strategy and ensure internal equity, market competitiveness, affordability and compliance with approved frameworks.
• Oversee salary review, incentives, benefits and related HR campaigns, ensuring accurate proposals, appropriate approvals and employee communication.
• Establish effective payroll governance, including controlled inputs, validation, segregation of duties, reconciliation, approval, payment and compliant reporting.
• Oversee pensions, social-security obligations, medical and insurance benefits and other employee schemes in collaboration with Finance and approved providers.
• Employee relations, engagement and wellbeing
• Maintain constructive individual and collective employee relations and support management in grievance, disciplinary, dispute and consultation processes.
• Lead employee listening, engagement and wellbeing programs and ensure survey results are converted into accountable, department-level and affiliate action plans.
• Promote a respectful, inclusive and safe workplace and ensure access to appropriate psychosocial and well-being support.
• Represent the Company in labor and employment matters and support the prevention and resolution of disputes.
• HR data, digital tools, reporting and records
• Ensure integrity, confidentiality and timely maintenance of HR information systems, employee master data, dashboards and statutory or management reports.
• Promote use of approved digital HR tools and reduce unmanaged manual files and duplicate reporting.
• Ensure secure retention, controlled access and lawful disposal of personnel records in coordination with Legal, Data Privacy and Records Management requirements.
• Expatriation, immigration and international mobility
• Oversee expatriate administration, visas, work and residence permits, relocation and related compliance in coordination with authorized internal and external partners.
• Monitor permit expiry, assignment conditions, tax and social-security interfaces and employee support requirements.
• Departures and offboarding
• Govern resignation, retirement, end-of-contract, redundancy and other separation processes, ensuring lawful procedure, approvals, final settlements, knowledge transfer, asset return and records closure.
• Review exit information and workforce trends and propose corrective retention or organizational actions.
  
  

Legal and corporate affairs

• Act as principal legal adviser for the Tanzania affiliates and provide practical, risk-based advice on corporate, commercial, employment, regulatory, land, litigation and contractual matters.
• Serve as Company Secretary for the relevant Tanzania entities and ensure effective Board and corporate-governance administration.
• Review, draft, negotiate and approve contracts and legal instruments within delegated authority, ensuring enforceability and protection of Company interests.
• Manage litigation, external counsel, debt-recovery legal actions and legal spending, and provide timely reporting on exposure and case status.
• Monitor changes in laws and regulations, assess business impact and coordinate implementation of required actions.
• Maintain legal records, corporate registers, licenses and document-retention requirements and support compliance, sanctions and internal-control activities.
  
  

Corporate communication and stakeholder relations

• Define and implement corporate communication, reputation, media, CSR and stakeholder-engagement plans aligned with business priorities.
• Manage relationships with government, regulators, industry bodies, associations, media and other external stakeholders.
• Coordinate crisis and sensitive communications with authorized Company stakeholders and ensure messages are accurate, consistent and appropriately approved.
  
  

Administration

• Provide oversight of office and staff administration, transport, fleet, facilities, travel, reception, licenses, registrations and service providers.
• Ensure administrative services are safe, compliant, cost-effective and delivered against agreed service standards.
• Monitor departmental budgets, contracts, controls and supplier performance and take corrective action where required.
  
  

Profil du candidat

• University degree in Law, Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline. A postgraduate qualification in Law, Human Resources, Business or Management is desirable.
• Professional qualification or membership in a recognized legal and/or human resources body is desirable, subject to local professional requirements.
• Significant senior leadership experience covering Human Resources and Legal or Corporate Affairs in a complex organization; energy, petroleum, retail or another regulated sector is an advantage.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Tanzanian employment and labour law, corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution, governance and regulatory compliance.
• Strong experience across HR strategy, organization and workforce planning, recruitment, performance, talent, learning, compensation and benefits, payroll governance, employee relations and separations.
• Proven ability to advise executive management and Boards, lead multidisciplinary teams, manage sensitive matters and influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including budget management, risk assessment, data analysis and interpretation of workforce and people-cost indicators.
• Excellent written and oral communication, negotiation, judgement, integrity and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and approved HR information, reporting and collaboration tools.
• Fluency in English is required; proficiency in Kiswahili is strongly desirable.

• Serve as a member of the Executive Committee and act as strategic adviser to the Managing Director and business leaders on people, organization, legal, governance, corporate affairs and administration matters.
• Translate Company, Marketing & Services and affiliate priorities into integrated HR and Legal strategies, annual roadmaps, budgets, controls and measurable objectives.
• Lead, develop and coordinate the Human Resources, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Communication and Administration teams, ensuring clear accountabilities, appropriate segregation of duties and effective succession coverage.
• Ensure activities are performed within approved policies, procedures, internal control requirements and delegations of authority, with timely escalation of material risks.
• Define and implement the affiliate HR strategy in alignment with business priorities, Group and M&S HR policies, Tanzania labor requirements and the affiliate social context.
• Maintain an HR operating model with clear processes, responsibilities, service standards, controls, calendars and decision rights.
• Lead workforce planning, headcount forecasting, organization reviews and people-cost planning, including permanent, contracted, graduate and expatriate populations.
• Advise management on organization design, job descriptions, grading, workforce productivity, critical roles and capability requirements.
• Ensure organization structures, positions, job descriptions, employment contracts and employee records are accurate, approved and regularly updated.
• Oversee employment administration throughout the employee lifecycle and ensure consistent application of employment terms, policies and management decisions.
• Monitor HR statutory and internal compliance, regulatory developments, audit actions and remediation plans.
• Ensure training needs analysis is completed and translated into an approved annual development plan and budget.
• Govern mandatory, technical, managerial and behavioral learning and monitor access, completion, learning transfer and business impact.
• Build management capability and ensure employees who attend significant programmes cascade relevant learning within the affiliate.
• Act as principal legal adviser for the Tanzania affiliates and provide practical, risk-based advice on corporate, commercial, employment, regulatory, land, litigation and contractual matters.
• Serve as Company Secretary for the relevant Tanzania entities and ensure effective Board and corporate-governance administration.
• Review, draft, negotiate and approve contracts and legal instruments within delegated authority, ensuring enforceability and protection of Company interests.
• Manage litigation, external counsel, debt-recovery legal actions and legal spending, and provide timely reporting on exposure and case status.
• Monitor changes in laws and regulations, assess business impact and coordinate implementation of required actions.
• Maintain legal records, corporate registers, licenses and document-retention requirements and support compliance, sanctions and internal-control activities.
• Define and implement corporate communication, reputation, media, CSR and stakeholder-engagement plans aligned with business priorities.
• Manage relationships with government, regulators, industry bodies, associations, media and other external stakeholders.
• Coordinate crisis and sensitive communications with authorized Company stakeholders and ensure messages are accurate, consistent and appropriately approved.
• Provide oversight of office and staff administration, transport, fleet, facilities, travel, reception, licenses, registrations and service providers.
• Ensure administrative services are safe, compliant, cost-effective and delivered against agreed service standards.
• Monitor departmental budgets, contracts, controls and supplier performance and take corrective action where required.

• Strategic advisory
• HR strategy development and implementation
• Legal advisory
• Corporate governance
• Contract negotiation and drafting
• Litigation management
• Stakeholder relations management
• Team leadership and development
• Budget management
• Risk management
• Workforce planning
• Organization design
• Training and development program governance
• Compensation and benefits governance
• Payroll governance
• Corporate communication strategy
• Administrative oversight

• University degree in Law, Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline.
• A postgraduate qualification in Law, Human Resources, Business or Management is desirable.
• Professional qualification or membership in a recognized legal and/or human resources body is desirable, subject to local professional requirements.
• Significant senior leadership experience covering Human Resources and Legal or Corporate Affairs in a complex organization.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Tanzanian employment and labour law, corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution, governance and regulatory compliance.
• Strong experience across HR strategy, organization and workforce planning, recruitment, performance, talent, learning, compensation and benefits, payroll governance, employee relations and separations.