HR Partner Middle East (Riyadh region)

About the Job
Location: Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Travel: 20% of your time, depending on business needs and regional priorities.

Are you passionate about driving people strategy in a fast-growing and entrepreneurial region? As HR Partner Middle East with a focus on Saudi Arabia, you will act as a trusted advisor to business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness and employee engagement across the region.

Your Role
As HR Partner Middle East, you are responsible for leading the people agenda in Saudi Arabia and supporting business leaders in achieving their objectives through effective people management and organizational development. You will act as a trusted HR advisor, understand business direction and play an important role in supporting leadership teams through change, organizational development, talent decisions, workforce planning, and proactively advise on a tactical level on (potential) people issues and challenges.

You will work in the Regional HR Partner organization Middle East and adopt global HR initiatives into impactful execution in Saudi Arabia while taking local needs and market dynamics into account. This role combines HR partnering with hands-on execution of various HR cycle topics.

Your Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, engagement, and succession planning that support business growth.
• Ensure effective execution of HR processes, policies, and programs, including integration programs such as the company Logistics integration.
• Drive local implementation of the company’s people strategy, along with global and regional HR initiatives in Saudi Arabia.
• Lead organizational development and change management initiatives.
• Ensure effective execution of talent, performance, rewards, mobility, engagement, DEI, health & wellbeing, and learning & development programs.
• Ensure compliance with local labor legislation, regional employment practices, and company policies.
• Manage complex employee relations and people-related matters.
• Analyze workforce trends and metrics and provide people insights to support business decisions.
• Collaborate closely with regional HR teams, Global HRBPs, and HR Functions.

Your Team
You will be part of the Global HR organization and report to the Regional HR Partner Lead ME. You will work with other HR Partners within the Middle East and collaborate closely with the Saudi Arabia leadership team and global HR stakeholders to support sustainable business growth.

Your Profile

Essential

• Significant HR leadership experience within an international environment.
• Trusted advisor to leaders within a complex international organization.
• Strong business acumen and a results-oriented mindset.
• Experience working within Middle Eastern markets with proven knowledge of labor legislation and employment practices in the Middle East.
• Proven experience leading and developing HR teams.
• Experience in change management and driving organizational transformation.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to effectively work across different cultures and organizational levels.
• Effective communication across cultures and organizational levels.
• Fluency in English and Arabic.

Preferred

• Experience supporting large-scale business growth and transformation within multinational organizations.
• Experience within technology, engineering, logistics, manufacturing or industrial environments.

We know the right person is not always the one who ticks every box. If this role excites you and you meet most of the essentials, we would love to hear from you.

Diversity & Inclusion
The company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.