Performance Manager

BHFT; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Dubai is seeking a Performance Manager who excels at transforming insights into actionable performance strategies. The ideal candidate will develop a comprehensive performance management system, collaborate with department heads, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Strong data skills and effective communication with senior leadership are essential. If you are results-oriented and thrive in dynamic environments, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, auditing, strategy, or HR focused on performance management.
• Proven experience implementing OKRs, KPIs, or performance scorecards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a company-wide performance management system.
• Identify inefficiencies within the organizational structure and escalate findings.
• Create reports and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.

Skills

Data Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Job description

Join our team as Performance Manager with a knack for turning insights into action. In this central role, you ll design and manage systems that track employee performance and align day-to-day efforts with our broader mission. We need someone with a consulting background who thrives on digging into data to uncover what s working, what s not, and how we can evolve.

Job Responsibilities:

Develop and implement a company-wide performance management system, leveraging OKRs, KPIs, scorecards, or other appropriate methodologies. This should cascade from the executive level down to teams and individual contributors, enabling the timely identification of high-potential, high-performing, and underperforming employees and defining bonus structures.

Once the system is established, proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement and optimization.

Collaborate with department heads to analyze functional performance and adapt metrics to align with departmental objectives.

Identify inefficiencies within the organizational structure, roles, and processes, and escalate these findings to functional leaders.

Create reports and dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.

Establish a transparent and easily understood system for providing feedback related to performance evaluations.

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

Experience in consulting, auditing, strategy, or HR with a strong focus on employee performance management and effectiveness evaluation.

Proven experience implementing OKRs, KPIs, performance scorecards, or similar systems within organizations of 100 to 500 employees (or comparable-sized divisions).

Track record of covering the entire lifecycle, from creation and implementation to ongoing support, and demonstrated business results showing the system's effectiveness (bonus points for system refinements or enhancements).

Strong data skills: ability to collect, clean, visualize, and interpret data.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage in clear and data-driven dialogues with senior leadership.

Ideal Candidate:

Not afraid to dive deep into unfamiliar processes and ask insightful questions.

Can translate strategic goals into measurable metrics.

Prioritizes achieving concrete results over strict adherence to methodology.

Understands the true value lies not in the system itself, but in how effectively it is utilized.

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