About the Role
As a Strategic People Partner, you'll partner with senior business leaders to shape and deliver commercially focused workforce, organization, and capability outcomes that enable sustainable business performance, transformation, colleague experience, and regulated healthcare outcomes. In this role, you will act as a strategic adviser, integrator, and constructive partner across the People function, translating business strategy into workforce priorities, organizational effectiveness interventions, and measurable people outcomes. Your expertise will help business leaders make better workforce, organization, and talent decisions, resulting in clearer accountability, enhanced capability, improved productivity, reduced people risk, and successful adoption of change.
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Key Responsibilities
- Workforce strategy and business performance: using data to diagnose performance, productivity, risk, and capability opportunities.
- Act as a trusted strategic adviser and constructive partner to senior leaders, helping them make high-quality decisions on people, leadership, culture, talent, risk, and transformation.
- Influence organizational effectiveness, shaping ways of working to enable business strategy and future capability.
- Connect business priorities with specialist expertise across the people team.
- Shape talent strategy, succession, leadership capability, key role planning, and future skills, including digital, data, and AI-enabled workforce capability.
- Transformation and change leadership: guiding the people agenda for change, workforce transition, engagement, adoption, risk management, and benefits realization.
- Partner with leaders to activate culture, inclusion, well-being, and engagement priorities.
- Ensure People decisions and change activities are aligned with policy, employment law, governance, risk, and healthcare expectations.
You
- Significant experience partnering senior leaders in a complex, matrixed, regulated, or multi-site organization.
- Track record of using workforce data, commercial insight, and organizational judgment to improve business performance.
- Experience leading organization design, workforce planning, talent, leadership, culture, or transformation activity.
- Ability to integrate specialist expertise into practical, business-led solutions.
- Experience operating with ambiguity, complexity, and differing stakeholder priorities.
- Outstanding stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with advanced communication skills adaptable for wide-ranging audiences.
- Experience supporting complex change programs and organizational initiatives.
- A collaborative and commercially minded approach.
- A passion for developing inclusive, high-performing cultures where people feel valued and supported.
Contract and Location
- Contract: Permanent, Full Time, Hybrid
- Location: Dubai
Why Join Us?
The company is the international health insurance division of the company, providing customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime and anywhere around the world, whether at home or while studying, living, traveling, or working abroad.
The company has offices worldwide including London and Brighton (UK), Dublin (Europe), Miami (USA), Dubai (UAE, in partnership with OIC), Egypt, and Hong Kong (China), as well as regional offices in mainland China, Singapore, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala, and Ecuador.
