Group Head, Total Rewards & Performance

Aldar Education LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Aldar Education seeks a Group Head - Rewards to lead Total Rewards, Performance Management and Workforce Planning. You will benchmark salaries, shape incentive design, and drive workforce strategy to support growth across Abu Dhabi’s top educational institutions.

You will act as a strategic advisor to leadership, manage rewards analytics, policy development and compliance, and coach the Total Reward team in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Senior HR leadership experience (Senior Manager level or above) within an organisation of 1,000+ employees, with direct team leadership.
• 5+ years’ experience in reward, or 7+ years’ generalist HR experience with strong expertise in reward, performance management and workforce planning.
• Proven experience in job evaluation using a recognised methodology (e.g. Hay, WTW).
• Experience across generalist HR, with a specialist focus on reward and strong understanding of performance management and workforce planning.
• Proven experience leading company-wide compensation and benefits reviews, performance management initiatives and workforce planning programmes, including implementation of recommendations.
• Experience developing and managing multi-layer incentive, reward and recognition programmes as part of an overarching Total Reward strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Group reward, performance, workforce planning and organisation design strategies, aligned with business objectives, growth and financial sustainability.
• Oversee Total Reward, including salary structures, benefits, allowances, recognition and incentive programmes, ensuring competitiveness, equity and affordability.
• Lead executive remuneration and short- and long-term incentive design, providing recommendations to the CPO, Executive Leadership and relevant Board committees.
• Own job evaluation, grading and job architecture frameworks, ensuring consistency in role scope, accountability and organisational impact.
• Lead the Group performance management framework, including objective setting, reviews, calibration and moderation, and ensure clear alignment between performance and reward.
• Lead strategic workforce planning, translating business plans into workforce requirements, capabilities, staffing models and manpower budgets.

Skills

Senior HR leadership

Rewards management

Performance management

Workforce planning

HR data analytics

Stakeholder management

Change management

Advanced Excel

Education

HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM/WorldatWork)

Bachelor’s or Master’s in HR/Business

Training in job evaluation and compensation benchmarking

Tools

Excel

Job description

Aldar Education seeks a Group Head - Rewards to lead Total Rewards, Performance Management and Workforce Planning. You will benchmark salaries, shape incentive design, and drive workforce strategy to support growth across Abu Dhabi’s top educational institutions.

You will act as a strategic advisor to leadership, manage rewards analytics, policy development and compliance, and coach the Total Reward team in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.