Principal HR Business Partner, EMEA CS PXT

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal HR Business Partner for EMEA CS PXT to strategically drive the HR strategy for AWS Global Sales in MENAT. The role focuses on building a people agenda to enable performance and growth, leading talent management, and partnering across organizational design and workforce planning.

The candidate will be a senior HR leader, engaging with executives, driving change, and delivering data-driven HR solutions within a fast-paced tech sales environment in Dubai.

Qualifications

• Senior HR experience in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
• University degree in Business Administration, HR or related field.
• Ability to translate business goals into HR initiatives and programs.
• Hands-on approach with attention to employee engagement.
• Experience with rapid and complex changing work environments.
• Coaching and mentoring Executives and Leaders of Leaders.
• Experience in development, employee relations, retention and rewards.
• Customer-obsessed culture fit with bias for action and delivering results.
• Comfort with high-volume workload and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong data-driven problem solving and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Be a core strategic and trusted member of the AWS MENAT PXT team.
• Lead initiatives to drive performance and accelerate business growth.
• Oversee talent management cycle: Talent, Performance, Compensation, Succession, Leadership Development.
• Partner with business on org design, workforce planning, succession, and skills development.
• Represent AWS businesses in MENAT within the wider HR community.

Skills

Strategic HR leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Executive coaching

People analytics

Performance management

Education

University degree in Business Administration or HR

Masters Degree in HR or MBA

Job description

Principal HR Business Partner, EMEA CS PXT

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an exceptional Human Resources Leader to strategically drive the development and implementation of the HR Strategy for our AWS Global Sales business in Middle East North Africa and Turkey.

Key job responsibilities

• Be a core strategic and trusted member of the AWS AGS MENAT and PXT team
• Be responsible for building and driving the people agenda to deliver results including creating initiatives to drive performance and accelerate the growth of the business
• Lead the annual HR talent management cycle relating to Talent and Performance Management Compensation Management Succession Planning and Leadership Development for the organizations
• Partner with the business on organizational design workforce planning succession planning and skills assessment and development
• Represent all AWS businesses in MENAT within the wider HR community

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dubai ARE

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience of operating at a senior HR level with demonstrated success in meeting exceptionally high standards in a high volume fast-paced environment
• University degree in Business Administration Human Resources or related field is required
• Demonstrated ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches strategies and initiatives to effect continual improvements in business objectives productivity and development of AWS Global Sales HR within the company
• A true hands-on approach as well as the ability to successfully monitor the “pulse” of the employee and corporate group to ensure a high level of employee engagement
• Experience with rapid and complex changing work environment
• Coaching and mentoring experience of Executives and Leaders of Leaders
• Success in creating and driving effective development employee relations retention and reward programs with a passion for learning and development
• For us the culture fit is non-negotiable – you will be Customer Obsessed with the ability to Think Big Dive Deep and Deliver Results with a Bias for Action
• You will be comfortable with a high-volume workload and not be afraid to “roll up your sleeves”
• You will have a strong-solutions focus and be comfortable working in an environment which demands strong deliverables.
• You will be able to effectively collaborate across multiple functions and as part of a global HR team
• Ability to use data driven analysis to identify problems and build solutions
• Strong internal and external customer focus
• Must be able to interface at all levels of the organization and across matrix functions
• Strong Project/Program Management Skills
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters Degree in HR or MBA
• 10-5 year HR experience ideally working with Cloud/Tech Sales professionals
• Experience in managing and leading organisational change and strategic HR management
• Key leadership principles for the role: customer obsession ownership learn and be curious earn trust and bias for action