HR Transformation Consultant - Contingent Workforce & VMS

edari; Dubai; On-site; AED 279,000 - 424,000; Full time

Job summary

edari is seeking an HR Transformation Consultant – Contingent Workforce & VMS to design and implement an enterprise-wide contingent workforce capability in Dubai. You will lead operating model design, governance, VMS selection and rollout, and standardise workforce lifecycle processes while ensuring compliance and strong analytics.

This is a 3-month consulting assignment. The role requires leading cross-functional stakeholders, driving adoption, and delivering enterprise-wide benefits within a

Qualifications

• Experience in contingent workforce management, vendor management, or workforce solutions.
• Strong experience in programme and project management leading enterprise initiatives.
• Experience in operating model design, business process redesign, and process standardisation.
• Hands-on knowledge of VMS and contingent workforce solutions.
• Strong understanding of procurement, supplier governance, and supplier performance management.
• Experience in designing and implementing governance frameworks, policies, approval matrices, decision rights, and RACI models.
• Experience in developing contingent workforce lifecycle processes, including onboarding, extensions, conversions, offboarding.
• Strong understanding of compliance controls, approval processes, and workforce governance.
• Experience in developing workforce analytics, reporting dashboards, KPI catalogues, and performance measurement frameworks.
• Financial and commercial acumen, including workforce spend visibility, rate card development, savings measurement, and benefits tracking.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Experience in managing change and driving adoption across multiple business verticals.
• Strong problem-solving skills, strategic thinking, and a results-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead the contingent workforce management programme across key workstreams.
• Design and implement operating model, governance, policies, and controls.
• Lead VMS selection, requirements definition, implementation, and enterprise rollout.
• Coordinate supplier onboarding and stakeholder engagement across relevant business functions.
• Define and standardise the contingent workforce lifecycle processes.
• Establish workforce governance, approvals, and compliance controls.
• Develop reporting requirements, dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Establish visibility for spend analysis and savings measurement.
• Develop supplier governance, rate cards, SLAs, and performance management.
• Drive supplier rationalisation and consolidation initiatives.
• Manage programme workstreams, risks, budgets, dependencies, milestones.
• Coordinate VMS/MSP ownership models aligned with future-state.
• Coordinate design of integration requirements, vendor evaluation, VMS roadmaps.
• Drive business adoption via stakeholder engagement, change management, training, pilot programs, rollout.
• Track programme benefits and readiness for implementation.
• Document operating models, governance, processes, and reporting requirements.

Skills

Contingent workforce management

Vendor management

Programme management

Operating model design

Governance

Procurement

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Data analytics

KPI development

Negotiation

Tools

Vendor Management Systems (VMS)

MS Excel / BI tools

Job description

edari is seeking an HR Transformation Consultant – Contingent Workforce & VMS to design and implement an enterprise-wide contingent workforce capability in Dubai. You will lead operating model design, governance, VMS selection and rollout, and standardise workforce lifecycle processes while ensuring compliance and strong analytics.

This is a 3-month consulting assignment. The role requires leading cross-functional stakeholders, driving adoption, and delivering enterprise-wide benefits within a