• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field.
• Master’s degree, such as an MBA, MSc HRM, or Organizational Psychology, is preferred.

Professional Certifications

• Professional HR qualification such as CIPD Level 5/7, SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent is preferred.
• Credentials in change management, coaching, psychometric assessment, people analytics, digital HR, or organizational transformation are advantageous.

Experience

• Typically 10–15 years of progressive Human Resources experience, including at least 5 years leading a broad HR function or business portfolio.
• Demonstrated leadership across strategic workforce planning, organization design, talent, performance, succession, rewards, employee relations, HR operations, and compliance.
• Experience in a UAE-based, diversified, multi-entity, or multicultural organization is strongly preferred.
• Proven success leading organizational transformation, Emiratization, leadership capability, digital HR, workforce analytics, and process reinvention.
• Experience building high-performing teams, managing budgets and strategic partners, governing payroll controls, and influencing senior stakeholders through insight and commercial judgement.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strategic and commercial mindset with the ability to connect business ambition, workforce strategy, organization capability, and measurable value creation.
• Future-focused perspective on talent, skills, organization design, digital HR, AI-enabled work, and evolving workforce models.
• Advanced people analytics capability, with the ability to turn workforce data into foresight, scenarios, and actionable executive insight.
• Exceptional communication, influence, and facilitation skills across senior and multicultural audiences; Arabic is an advantage.
• Strong transformation leadership, with the courage to challenge established practices, mobilize stakeholders, and convert strategy into sustained execution.
• Strong working knowledge of UAE Labour Law, Emiratization, immigration, payroll governance, end-of-service requirements, and HR data controls
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