Hester Bennett

Senior HR Business Partner | Chartered CIPD

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Chartered CIPD / Head of HR / Senior HR Business Partner 15 years’ experience of partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver high quality end to end HR expertise across diverse industries. Fluency across various HR disciplines including employee relations, organisational development, reward & recognition, and talent management & acquisition. International experience across the UK, European Union, Middle East, Central Asia and Africa leading diverse teams of HR specialists. SME and MNC experience both in-house and through consultancy in single and multi-site companies.

Experience

  • Senior Human Resources Business Partner at DP World
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Senior Regional HR Business Partner for Logistics at DP World GCC, partnering with executive leadership to scale high-growth, multi-country operations across the UAE, KSA, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar I lead end-to-end people strategy for Freight Forwarding, Contract Logistics, Market Access and emerging verticals, with a strong focus on workforce planning, organisational design, localisation, leadership capability, and employee relations in a complex, fast moving environment.

  • Group Head of HR at CJ Logistics
    Jan 2022 - May 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Global logistics, engineering and SCM company operating across 35 offices in 19 countries

  • Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Transguard Group
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2021 · 4 yrs

    UAE’s largest manpower outsourcing company with 70,000 employees (part of The Emirates Group)

  • Senior HR Advisor at Education Personnel Services
    2014 - 2018 · 4 yrs

    Education HR consultancy working across south and central UK (700+ clients)

  • Regional HR Officer at SCC
    2013 - 2014 · 1 yr

    Europe’s largest privately owned Information Technology company operating across 45+ UK and European sites with c.5,500 employees