HR Transformation (Onboarding & Offboarding) Consultant

Edari; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 391,000 - 670,000; Full time

Job summary

Edari is seeking an experienced HR Transformation Consultant to lead the review and transformation of onboarding and offboarding processes across multiple business verticals in the UAE. The role focuses on simplifying journeys, enhancing HR technology usage and delivering a seamless employee experience.

The consultant will define platform requirements, drive data quality, and ensure end-to-end journey tracking with clear KPIs for a 3-month engagement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in HR transformation or HR process transformation.
• 5+ years in HR technology implementation or HR transformation projects.
• Strong ability to redesign processes, simplify and standardise journeys.
• Demonstrated project or programme management within HR environments.
• Experience with Avature or similar HR tech platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the HR Onboarding & Offboarding Transformation Programme from assessment through implementation.
• Perform current-state assessment of onboarding/offboarding across verticals.
• Identify duplication, bottlenecks, data issues and experiential gaps.
• Drive harmonisation, simplification and standardisation of journeys.
• Develop target-state processes, rules, approvals and touchpoints.
• Define platform and integration requirements including Avature alignment.
• Lead requirements gathering, testing, deployment and change activities.
• Establish end-to-end journey tracking and KPI framework.
• Create deployment roadmaps, readiness plans and benefits-tracking.

Skills

HR transformation

HR technology

Process redesign

Project management

Requirements gathering

Data management

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Testing & deployment

Change management

Tools

Avature

ATS platforms

Job description

We are seeking for an experienced HR Transformation (Onboarding & Offboarding) Consultant to lead the review, standardisation and transformation of Onboarding and Offboarding processes across multiple business verticals for one of the largest semi-government organisations based in Dubai, UAE.

The HR Transformation (Onboarding & Offboarding) Consultant will be responsible for simplifying and harmonising HR journeys, strengthening the use of HR technology, defining platform and integration requirements, improving data and journey tracking, and delivering a consistent, seamless experience for employees and stakeholders.

This is on a 3 month contract basis.

Key responsibilites:

• Lead the HR Onboarding & Offboarding Transformation Programme from assessment through implementation and transition.
• Conduct a comprehensive current-state assessment of onboarding and offboarding processes and employee journeys across business verticals.
• Identify process duplication, manual hand-offs, approval bottlenecks, data issues, control gaps and opportunities to improve the employee and stakeholder experience.
• Drive process harmonisation, simplification and standardisation, establishing consistent target-state journeys and operating processes.
• Develop target-state process and workflow designs, including business rules, functional requirements, approvals and stakeholder touchpoints.
• Lead the HR technology and platform strategy, including assessment and alignment with Avature and other relevant ATS/CRM or HR technology solutions.
• Define business, functional, integration, data, tracking and reporting requirements to support the future-state solution.
• Work closely with Technology/IT, Human Capital and business stakeholders to ensure alignment between business requirements and technology delivery.
• Lead requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, training, change management and adoption activities.
• Establish an end-to-end journey tracking and reporting model, including employee experience measures and transformation KPIs.
• Develop implementation and deployment roadmaps, business readiness plans and benefits-tracking frameworks.
• Manage key delivery milestones, risks, dependencies and business outcomes throughout the engagement.
• Support vendor and technology partner management where required.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer to enable a smooth transition to operational ownership.
• A comprehensive review of onboarding and offboarding journeys across relevant business verticals.
• Identification of process duplication, manual activities, hand-off points, approval bottlenecks, data challenges and employee experience gaps.
• A single, standardised target-state onboarding and offboarding journey.
• Target-state workflow designs, functional requirements, business rules and approval requirements.
• Platform and technology recommendations, including Avature alignment and business requirements.
• Integration, data, tracking and reporting requirements.
• DHIT-ready solution and design documentation.
• An end-to-end onboarding and offboarding tracking model and employee experience measurement framework.
• A deployment roadmap covering testing, training, stakeholder engagement and business readiness.
• Benefits tracking and transformation outcome measures.
• Transition of the transformed processes and associated documentation to operational ownership.

Knowledge Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in HR transformation, HR technology implementation or HR process transformation.
• 5 years of experience in HR technology implementation.
• Strong experience in business process redesign, process simplification and standardisation.
• Demonstrated project or programme management experience within an HR transformation environment.
• Experience with Avature, ATS, CRM or other HR technology platforms.
• Strong capability in requirements gathering, business analysis and solution design.
• Good understanding of systems integration, data flows, data management and reporting.
• Experience defining functional and business requirements for HR technology solutions.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management capabilities.
• Experience managing testing, deployment, training, change and user adoption.
• Experience working across complex, multi-business or multi-entity organisations is highly desirable.

Immediately Available Candidates will only be considered already based in the UAE.