Senior Specialist, Organization Design & Effectiveness

Confidential Careers; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers in Abu Dhabi is seeking a highly analytical Senior Specialist, Organization Design & Effectiveness to support transformation, workforce planning, operating model design, policy governance, and business process improvement initiatives across multiple business units.

The successful candidate will play a key role in improving organizational effectiveness, enhancing productivity, supporting organization design initiatives, and ensuring workforce capabilities are aligned with

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience in Organization Development, Organization Design, Workforce Planning, Organizational Effectiveness, or Process Improvement.
• Experience supporting organization restructuring, operating model design, workforce transformation, or organizational effectiveness initiatives.
• Experience drafting policies, governance documentation, procedures, and organizational standards is preferred.
• Consulting experience, either in-house or with a consulting firm, would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to assess organizational effectiveness, spans and layers, role clarity, accountability, decision rights, and operating efficiency.
• Support the design and implementation of operating models aligned with business strategy.
• Develop workforce analytics, dashboards, and reporting insights.
• Lead or support process mapping, process redesign, and business process re-engineering initiatives.
• Collaborate with Digital and IT teams to support process automation and optimization initiatives.

Skills

Organization Design

Workforce Planning

Organizational Effectiveness

Process Improvement

Stakeholder Management

Policy Governance

Analytics

Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business Administration

Job description

A leading diversified group in Abu Dhabi is seeking a highly analytical and business-focused Senior Specialist, Organization Design & Effectiveness to support organization transformation, workforce planning, operating model design, policy governance, and business process improvement initiatives across multiple business units.

The successful candidate will play a key role in improving organizational effectiveness, enhancing productivity, supporting organization design initiatives, and ensuring workforce capabilities are aligned with business strategy and future growth objectives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to assess organizational effectiveness, spans and layers, role clarity, accountability, decision rights, and operating efficiency.
• Support the design and implementation of operating models aligned with business strategy.
• Develop and maintain organization structures, reporting lines, governance forums, and accountability frameworks.
• Support restructuring, organization transformation, and change initiatives.
• Partner with HR stakeholders to support job architecture and role alignment activities.
• Support annual and multi-year workforce planning activities.
• Develop workforce analytics, dashboards, and reporting insights.
• Analyze workforce trends, productivity metrics, headcount, capacity utilization, and organizational efficiency.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to align workforce plans with budgets and growth targets.
• Draft and maintain organizational and people-related policies, standards, and procedures.
• Support governance reviews, controls, and policy compliance activities.
• Conduct impact assessments and policy implementation reviews.
• Lead or support process mapping, process redesign, and business process re-engineering initiatives.
• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Collaborate with Digital and IT teams to support process automation and optimization initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 8 years of relevant experience in Organization Development, Organization Design, Workforce Planning, Organizational Effectiveness, or Process Improvement.
• Experience supporting organization restructuring, operating model design, workforce transformation, or organizational effectiveness initiatives.
• Proven experience participating in business process improvement or business process re-engineering projects.
• Strong experience working with senior stakeholders across multiple business functions.
• Experience developing workforce insights, organizational analytics, and management reporting.
• Experience drafting policies, governance documentation, procedures, and organizational standards is preferred.
• Consulting experience, either in-house or with a consulting firm, would be advantageous.