Vice President of Human Resources

Webook; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Webook seeks a Vice President of Human Resources to lead people strategy as the company scales across international markets. You will report to the COO and shape the HR operating model, talent frameworks, and governance to support rapid growth in KSA, UAE, MENA, Europe, the UK, and beyond.

You will provide senior strategic leadership across HR, focusing on organizational design, talent management, performance, and compensation frameworks while ensuring alignment with business priorities and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including international or multi-market environments.
• Proven experience scaling HR functions, people operations, and organisational structures in high-growth companies.
• Experience setting up HR operations, policies, systems, and processes across multiple countries.
• Demonstrated expertise in organisational design, workforce planning, talent management, leadership development, performance management, and compensation frameworks.
• Experience advising C-suite executives on people strategy, structure, culture, and leadership capability.
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Experience in technology, digital platforms, marketplaces, e-commerce, entertainment, travel, or other high-growth environments preferred.
• Strong communication, influencing, stakeholder management, and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the HR strategy to support webook com's international growth plans.
• Advise the COO and executive leadership team on people strategy, organisational structure, workforce planning, and HR priorities.
• Build a scalable HR operating model across KSA and international markets.
• Design scalable HR policies, processes, systems, and governance across multiple countries.
• Lead the setup of HR operations in new markets, including employment models, onboarding, payroll coordination, benefits, employee lifecycle processes, and local compliance.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, service levels, and reporting between central HR, local HR teams, regional leaders, and external partners.
• Lead organisational design to ensure the company has the right structure, roles, leadership layers, and capabilities to scale.
• Partner with business leaders to define future workforce needs across functions and markets.
• Build workforce planning processes linked to business priorities, budgets, and expansion plans.
• Identify capability gaps, succession risks, structural issues, and opportunities to improve organisational effectiveness.
• Develop international talent acquisition strategies for leadership, technical, commercial, operational, and market-specific roles.
• Build talent management frameworks covering succession planning, high-potential talent, career pathways, leadership development, and retention.
• Strengthen executive hiring, critical role hiring, onboarding, and leadership readiness for international expansion.
• Ensure the company can attract, develop, and retain the talent required for global growth.
• Design and implement a performance management framework that drives accountability, high performance, and continuous development.
• Ensure goals, KPIs, feedback, and reward outcomes are clearly linked to business priorities.
• Develop compensation, benefits, job leveling, grading, and incentive frameworks suitable for international markets.
• Partner with Finance and leadership on workforce costs, salary benchmarking, bonus structures, and reward governance.
• Preserve webook com's entrepreneurial culture while introducing the structure needed for international scale.
• Lead engagement initiatives, employee listening, and action planning across markets.
• Support leaders in managing culture shifts, organisational change, and new ways of working.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, speed, and high performance.
• Provide leadership to the HR function, including regional HR resources and external partners.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the COO, CEO, and executive leadership team on people, culture, structure, and capability.

Skills

People leadership

HR strategy

Change management

Stakeholder management

Executive advisory

Multi-market scaling

Regulatory compliance

HR systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Organisational Development, or related field

Master's degree or senior HR certification such as SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CIPD, or equivalent preferred

Job description

Role Overview

The Vice President of Human Resources will lead webook com's people strategy as the company scales across international markets. Reporting to the COO, this role focuses on building the HR strategy, operating model, systems, and talent frameworks required to support rapid growth across KSA, MENA, Europe, the UK, and other global territories. The VP HR provides senior strategic leadership across the broader HR function, with a particular focus on international expansion, organizational design, talent management, performance management, HR operations, and scaling people practices across multiple markets.

Key Responsibilities

People Strategy & International Scaling

• Define and execute the HR strategy to support webook com's international growth plans.
• Advise the COO and executive leadership team on people strategy, organisational structure, workforce planning, and HR priorities.
• Build a scalable HR operating model across KSA and international markets.
• Ensure HR practices support business growth, market expansion, culture, and performance.

HR Operations & Governance

• Design and implement scalable HR policies, processes, systems, and governance across multiple countries.
• Work closely with the existing KSA HR Director and HR team to ensure alignment, consistency, and capability across the HR function.
• Lead the setup of HR operations in new markets, including employment models, onboarding, payroll coordination, benefits, employee lifecycle processes, and local compliance.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, service levels, and reporting between central HR, local HR teams, regional leaders, and external partners.

Organisational Design & Workforce Planning

• Lead organisational design to ensure the company has the right structure, roles, leadership layers, and capabilities to scale.
• Partner with business leaders to define future workforce needs across functions and markets.
• Build workforce planning processes linked to business priorities, budgets, and expansion plans.
• Identify capability gaps, succession risks, structural issues, and opportunities to improve organisational effectiveness.

Talent Acquisition & Development

• Develop international talent acquisition strategies for leadership, technical, commercial, operational, and market‑specific roles.
• Build talent management frameworks covering succession planning, high‑potential talent, career pathways, leadership development, and retention.
• Strengthen executive hiring, critical role hiring, onboarding, and leadership readiness for international expansion.
• Ensure the company can attract, develop, and retain the talent required for global growth.

Performance, Rewards & Development

• Design and implement a performance management framework that drives accountability, high performance, and continuous development.
• Ensure goals, KPIs, feedback, and reward outcomes are clearly linked to business priorities.
• Develop compensation, benefits, job leveling, grading, and incentive frameworks suitable for international markets.
• Partner with Finance and leadership on workforce costs, salary benchmarking, bonus structures, and reward governance.

Culture, Engagement & DEI

• Preserve webook com's entrepreneurial culture while introducing the structure needed for international scale.
• Lead engagement initiatives, employee listening, and action planning across markets.
• Support leaders in managing culture shifts, organisational change, and new ways of working.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, speed, and high performance.

HR Leadership & Business Partnership

• Provide leadership to the HR function, including the head office KSA HR team, regional HR resources, and external partners.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the COO, CEO, and executive leadership team on people, culture, structure, and capability.
• Build strong partnerships with Finance, Legal, GRC, Operations, Commercial, Product, Technology, and regional leaders.
• Ensure HR is seen as a business partner that enables growth, performance, and scalable execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including significant experience in international or multi‑market environments.
• Proven experience scaling HR functions, people operations, and organisational structures in high‑growth companies.
• Strong experience setting up HR operations, policies, systems, and processes across multiple countries.
• Demonstrated expertise in organisational design, workforce planning, talent management, leadership development, performance management, and compensation frameworks.
• Experience supporting international expansion across markets such as KSA, UAE, MENA, Europe, the UK, or other global territories.
• Strong understanding of employment models, HR compliance, benefits, payroll coordination, employee relations, and employee lifecycle processes across jurisdictions.
• Experience advising C‑suite executives on people strategy, structure, culture, and leadership capability.
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands‑on when needed.
• Experience in technology, digital platforms, marketplaces, e‑commerce, entertainment, travel, or other high‑growth environments preferred.
• Strong communication, influencing, stakeholder management, and change management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Organisational Development, or related field.
• Master's degree or senior HR certification such as SHRM‑SCP, SPHR, CIPD, or equivalent preferred.