Lead, People Business Partner (PBP)

<p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p></p> <p>Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.&nbsp;</p> <p>As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.</p> <h3><strong>Job Purpose</strong></h3> <p>The Lead, People Business Partnership acts as a strategic connector between enterprise people strategy and business execution.</p> <p>This role partners with senior business leaders to design and implement people initiatives that strengthen performance, engagement, and organizational capability.</p> <p>Working closely with COEs and the broader People leadership team, the Lead ensures that workforce plans, leadership effectiveness, and change programs are delivered with consistency, insight, and measurable business impact.</p> <h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Partner with business leaders to operationalize people plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and talent priorities.</li> <li>Manage day-to-day employee lifecycle matters in partnership with People Operations and Employee Relations.</li> <li>Coach line managers on performance management, feedback, and team engagement.</li> <li>Analyze people metrics (attrition, engagement, performance) to identify local trends and propose solutions.</li> <li>Support organizational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives.</li> <li>Collaborate with COEs (Talent Management, Total Rewards, Learning, ER) to deliver enterprise programs into business units.</li> <li>Act as a culture champion, driving inclusion and accountability through daily interactions.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>5–7 years HR experience, including 3+ years in HRBP or advisory role.</li> <li>Proven capability managing multiple business units or teams.</li> <li>Sound understanding of HR processes and labor regulations.</li> <li>Analytical mindset with ability to interpret data trends.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience in fintech, banking, or digital environments.</li> <li>Exposure to organization-wide HR transformation or scaling initiatives.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About You</strong></p> <ul> <li>You’re a strategic operator who balances business acumen with people insight.</li> <li>You see patterns in data, behaviors, and structure — and use them to shape decisions that build capability and performance at scale.</li> <li>You’re confident in influencing senior leaders, framing complex people issues in business terms, and driving clarity where ambiguity exists.</li> <li>You’re a coach and connector — developing PBPs to think critically, partner strategically, and deliver with empathy and precision.</li> <li>You collaborate fluidly across COEs, ensuring that enterprise initiatives translate into meaningful impact on the ground.</li> <li>You’re known for your sound judgment, calm under pressure, and ability to hold leaders accountable while strengthening trust.</li> <li>Above all, you elevate the people function — turning strategy into measurable outcomes that advance both culture and commercial success.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What Success Looks Like&nbsp;</strong></h3> <ul> <li>You are recognized as a strategic partner on the senior leadership team for your assigned business units, shaping the long-term organizational and talent strategy.</li> <li>You have designed and implemented business unit-specific people strategies that demonstrably contribute to achieving core business objectives (e.g., market expansion, product innovation, operational efficiency).</li> <li>Your influence extends to shaping company-wide HR policy and program design, providing crucial business context and feedback to Centers of Excellence (COEs).</li> <li>You have successfully led the end-to-end deployment of multiple COE-led strategic initiatives across your business units, ensuring high-quality execution, sustained adoption, and demonstrable positive impact on key people metrics.</li> <li>You have a high-performing People Business Partner (PBP) team or support staff that you mentor, develop, and delegate effectively to, ensuring consistent, high-quality HR support for the business.</li> <li>Your proactive people risk mitigation and strategic workforce planning result in a highly stable, engaged, and optimally structured talent base that is ahead of the curve in meeting future business needs.</li> </ul>