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Associate Vice President - People Transformation

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Direct to Company 1 hour ago · 02 Nov 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $70k - $120k/yr*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Role
At the company, People Transformation is about more than changing systems. It’s about creating simpler, smarter, and more meaningful experiences for our people. We’re looking for an experienced transformation professional who can connect people, technology, data, and business needs to shape how the future of work looks across the company.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Transform how we work: Lead People Transformation initiatives that simplify, standardise, and redesign processes across the employee lifecycle.
  • Make HR smarter: Identify opportunities to automate processes, improve services, and introduce innovative digital solutions.
  • Power the technology: Lead the enhancement and optimisation of HR platforms, including Oracle Fusion HCM, and ensure technology works for our people and the business.
  • Turn strategy into action: Build transformation roadmaps, operating models, governance frameworks, and change plans that move ideas into delivery.
  • Own the journey: Manage major transformation programmes from planning and implementation through to stabilisation and benefits realisation.
  • Shape the employee experience: Lead initiatives that strengthen employee experience, engagement, and workforce effectiveness.
  • Listen and act: Own the end-to-end Employee Survey programme, from planning and vendor management to deployment, analysis, reporting, and action planning.
  • Turn insight into impact: Use HR data, workforce analytics, and dashboards to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
  • Keep improving: Look for smarter, simpler, and more efficient ways of working across the People function through process improvement and automation.
  • Bring people together: Partner with senior leaders, People teams, Technology, vendors, and implementation partners to drive transformation forward.
  • Make change stick: Build engagement and adoption around new systems, processes, and ways of working.
  • Keep us on track: Establish strong governance, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure initiatives meet internal, audit, and regulatory requirements.

What Do You Bring?

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, Organisational Development, or a related field.
  • Strong experience across People/HR Transformation, HR Technology, Digital Transformation, Employee Experience, or HR Operations.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise-wide transformation programmes and major technology implementations.
  • Strong knowledge of HRIS/HCM platforms, ideally Oracle Fusion HCM.
  • Experience managing complex projects, transformation roadmaps, and multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of process improvement, automation, and change management.
  • Ability to use workforce data and analytics to support better decision-making.
  • Confidence working with senior leadership, Technology teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
  • Experience within financial services or another large, complex organisation would be an advantage.
  • A Master’s degree or relevant professional certification would be an added advantage.

Why the company?

  • Because transformation starts with people.
  • You’ll have the opportunity to shape how our people experience work, influence the technology behind it, and lead initiatives that make a difference across the organisation.
  • Your ideas. Your impact. Your transformation.
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