CHRO - Luxury Retail - Hybrid Dubai And Lebanon

Michael Page; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 559,000 - 669,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

Michael Page in Dubai seeks a Senior HR & Culture leader to transform HR globally and partner with the CEO and senior leadership to shape people and organisational strategy. This role evolves HR from operational support to a strategic business partner across multiple international sites.

You will drive talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and a feedback-driven culture, while aligning compensation and recognition with business goals and supporting rapid growth.

Qualifications

• Senior HR leadership experience in retail, luxury, hospitality, FMCG, or other customer-facing industries.
• Experience leading people and culture transformation in a growing international business.
• Strong track record in talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and organisational design.
• Commercially minded with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
• Positive, engaging, and highly visible leadership style.
• Decisive and assertive while maintaining strong relationship-building capabilities.
• Experience creating high-performance, feedback-oriented cultures.
• Willingness to spend significant time at the business's headquarters location.
• Experience within premium, luxury, or multi-site environments highly advantageous.
• Able to balance a hybrid location model.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR & Culture transformation during rapid growth.
• Shape culture and talent strategy globally.
• Partner with the CEO and senior leadership team on people and organisational strategy.
• Lead the evolution of the HR function from operational support to strategic business partnership.
• Drive culture transformation, accountability, collaboration, and performance excellence.
• Design and implement talent management, succession planning, and performance management frameworks.
• Establish leadership development and learning & development capabilities.
• Build a feedback-driven culture, including structured review processes.
• Enhance employee engagement, retention, and employer value proposition.
• Develop compensation, incentive, and recognition programs aligned with business objectives.
• Improve support and service delivery for frontline and customer-facing teams.
• Coach leaders on people management, organisational effectiveness, and change management.
• Lead and develop the existing HR team across multiple international locations.
• Support workforce planning to enable ambitious growth and expansion plans.

Skills

Senior HR leadership

Talent management

Succession planning

Leadership development

Organisational design

Executive stakeholder influence

Change management

Hybrid leadership

Job description

Job Description

• Lead HR & Culture transformation during rapid growth
• Shape culture and talent strategy globally
• Partner with the CEO and senior leadership team on people and organisational strategy
• Lead the evolution of the HR function from operational support to strategic business partnership
• Drive culture transformation, accountability, collaboration, and performance excellence
• Design and implement talent management, succession planning, and performance management frameworks
• Establish leadership development and learning & development capabilities
• Build a feedback-driven culture, including structured review processes
• Enhance employee engagement, retention, and employer value proposition
• Develop compensation, incentive, and recognition programs aligned with business objectives
• Improve support and service delivery for frontline and customer-facing teams
• Coach leaders on people management, organisational effectiveness, and change management
• Lead and develop the existing HR team across multiple international locations
• Support workforce planning to enable ambitious growth and expansion plans

About Our Client

International luxury consumer brand with a growing multi-market footprint.

The Successful Applicant

• Proven senior HR leadership experience in retail, luxury, hospitality, FMCG, or other customer-facing industries
• Previous experience leading people and culture transformation in a growing international business
• Strong track record in talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and organisational design
• Commercially minded with the ability to influence executive stakeholders
• Positive, engaging, and highly visible leadership style
• Decisive and assertive while maintaining strong relationship-building capabilities
• Experience creating high-performance, feedback-oriented cultures
• Demonstrated ability to lead through growth, complexity, and changeWillingness to spend significant time at the business's headquarters location
• Experience within premium, luxury, or multi-site environments highly advantageous
• Able to balance a hybrid location model

What's on Offer

There is a competitive package of up to 55,000 AED + Benefits and the unrivalled opportunity to shape an international HR agenda across this high profile retail group

Contact

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