HR Policy Manager

Etihad; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Etihad Airways is seeking an HR Policy Manager to design, govern, and drive compliant HR policy across our global operation. You will balance employment law, HR strategy, and business change, drafting policies and templates that work across jurisdictions and leading the change needed to embed new ways of working.

The role suits either an employment lawyer transitioning to advisory or a policy-minded HR professional with strong drafting and analytical experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in law, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
• 5-8+ years in employment law, HR policy, or benefits from either a legal or senior HR background.
• At least 3 years' experience within a large multinational organization with complex matrix reporting.
• Strong drafting and writing skills for policies, contracts, and employee-facing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, draft, and maintain HR policies, contract templates, and employee handbook content across multiple countries, working closely with Legal on amendments.
• Stay abreast of employment law requirements market by market and ensure policy stays compliant as regulations shift.
• Govern policy and template library end-to-end version control, consistency, and rollout across all countries we operate in.
• Partner with Payroll, HR Business Partners, Legal and the business on change management for the implementation of changes and the delivery of HR briefings.
• Ongoing policy evaluation, monitoring and reporting, including tracking policy effectiveness, analysing HR data, gathering employee and stakeholder feedback.
• Recommending improvements to enhance engagement and operational efficiency based on available data, emerging workplace trends and best practice in the market.

Skills

Employment law

Policy drafting

Analytical skills

Change management

AI drafting tools

HRIS (SAP SuccessFactors)

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in law / HR / related discipline

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

Job description

Job Description:

Job Description

Etihad Airways is looking for an HR Policy Manager to own the design, governance, and compliance of HR policy across our global operation. You'll work at the intersection of employment law, HR strategy, and business change, building frameworks that hold up across multiple jurisdictions, drafting the policies and contract templates that support them, and driving the change management needed to make new ways of working stick. We're genuinely open to two kinds of background for this role: an employment lawyer looking to move into a hands-on advisory position, or a HR professional with strong policy, drafting, and analytical experience. What matters more than the path you took is how you think.

Accountabilities

• Design, draft, and maintain HR policies, contract templates, and employee handbook content across multiple countries, working closely with Legal on amendments.
• Stay abreast of employment law requirements market by market and ensuring policy stays compliant as regulations shift.
• Govern our policy and template library end-to-end version control, consistency, and rollout across all countries we operate in.
• Partner with Payroll, HR Business Partners, Legal and the business on change management for the implementation of changes and the delivery of HR briefings.
• Ongoing policy evaluation, monitoring and reporting, including tracking policy effectiveness, analysing HR data, gathering employee and stakeholder feedbacd
• Recommending improvements to enhance engagement and operational efficiency based on available data, emerging workplace trends and best practice in the market.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in law, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
• 5-8+ years' experience in employment law, HR policy, or benefits and working conditions from either a legal or senior HR background.
• At least 3 years' experience within a large, multinational organization with complex matrix reporting.
• Strong drafting and writing skills policies, contracts, and employee-facing documentation.
• Highly analytical: comfortable quantifying the cost and business impact of policy or process change.
• A proactive, low-instruction-needed, 'fix-it' mindset you spot problems and drive solutions without being asked.
• Comfortably using AI tools to support drafting, without losing your own critical thinking and judgment.
• Experience with HRIS platforms (SAP SuccessFactors or similar) is a plus.
• Aviation industry experience, is an advantage, but we're open to all industry backgrounds.

Additional Information

Etihad Airways is more than the UAE's national airline - we're shaping the future of global aviation. From our hub in Abu Dhabi, we connect people across continents and cultures, while driving our "Journey 2030" ambition to double our fleet, expand our network and grow our people for a new era of excellence. Join us and become part of a vision where the world is your workplace and extraordinary experiences take flight.

To learn more visit www.etihad.com

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