Organization Design and Workforce Planning- Director

Red Sea Global; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Sea Global seeks a senior HR professional to lead organization design, workforce planning and governance. You will shape job architecture, design frameworks and staffing plans, partnering with HRBPs and leaders to translate strategy into practical plans and deliver measurable business value.

The role emphasizes end-to-end organization design, workforce analytics, budgeting and continuous improvement, with a focus on Saudi market alignment and regional deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business or related social science field.
• Minimum of 5 to 8 years of experience in a similar position.

Responsibilities

• Assist with implementation of the annual business plan and HR strategy.
• Translate HR strategy into operational plans and track execution.
• Contribute to functional budget preparation and monitor costs.
• Develop end-to-end organization design from principles to implementation.
• Create job profiles, architecture, and governance for position management.
• Provide leadership support to HR Partners and senior leaders.
• Governance and guidance for position counts and supervisory ratios.
• Develop a comprehensive job catalogue and framework for job families.
• Lead annual strategic workforce planning with across-unit collaboration.
• Support capacity building with workshops and playbooks for HR teams.
• Ensure safety, quality and environmental policies are applied.

Skills

Time Management

Negotiation

Problem Solving

Team Building

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business or any related social science field

Job description

Be the change. Join the world’s most visionary developer.

Red Sea Global (RSG) is showing that there is a better way to positively shape the places we live, work and travel.

We are purpose-driven and committed to people and planet. Our transformative programs are a driving force to achieving Vision 2030, as well as leading the world towards regenerative tourism.

Join RSG and be part of the positive change for Saudi Arabia and the world.

Job Purpose

• Develop high- performing organization structure for staff and teams, delivering on organization design projects of varying complexities, including development of detailed design deliverables.
• Interpret business strategy and perform organization analytics into actionable insights.
• Develop the full cycle of organization design from principles to conceptual design, business value and impact assessment to detailed final design and implementation planning.
• Develop job profiles with an appreciation of job architecture, competency and grading design. Structure and support workforce transition and implementation of the approved organization design

Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Contribution

• Assist with the implementation of the annual business plan and targets and set the strategic agenda of the Human Resources function to deliver TRSDC vision and mission.
• Ensure that the strategy is translated into operational business plans for the Human Resources function and monitor the performance and execution of those plans to achieve functional objectives and deliver the company’s strategy.

Budget

• Contribute to the preparation of the functional budget and monitor financial performance versus the budget so that the business is aware of anticipated costs/revenues, areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified, and potential performance improvement opportunities are capitalized upon.

Organization Design

• Develop the full cycle of organization design from principles to conceptual design, business value and impact assessment to detailed final design and implementation planning.
• Develop job profiles with an appreciation of job architecture, competency and grading design.
• Structure and support workforce transition and implementation of the approved organization design
• Provide thought leadership and consulting support to HR Business Partners and senior leaders, in organizational assessment & design, workforce planning, and alignment of strategic staffing plans.
• Ensure governance and provide support as needed to the managerial decision‑making processes related to position management and the organization hierarchy, highlighting risks and opportunities vis‑a‑vis position count, supervisory ratios, and organizational layers across the business.
• Provide guidelines for the HR community in organization design analytics and ensure that they are captured and operationalized to measure effectiveness.
• Support the HR team to assess specific organization design projects and processes to enhance both operating effectiveness and resource productivity of their client organizations.
• Develop a comprehensive job catalogue, defining a framework for job families, as one of the key building blocks for an efficient position management process.

Workforce Planning

• Lead the annual strategic workforce planning process, providing guidance and tools to ensure a unified, corporate approach.
• Work with HR team to support the development of strategic staffing plans for their client units, including facilitating collaboration and identification interdependencies across business units.
• Serve as HR focal point with the Finance and Accounting Division to define and operationalize joint HR/Budget approach and partnership with clearly defined processes and roles for strategic workforce planning and staff affordability planning.
• Oversee aggregation and analysis of strategic staffing plans, develop materials and orchestrate management reviews for approval of strategic staffing plans.
• Work with HR team to implement strategic staffing plans, leveraging opportunities for a corporate approach to HR actions, e.g., recruitments, redeployments, separations.
• Facilitate quarterly monitoring and reporting strategic staffing plan implementation progress and outcomes for senior management, and development of the annual strategic staffing paper.
• Strengthen and continuously improve the impact of strategic workforce planning through process simplification, enhancements in technology, and further linking with other HR processes and talent initiatives.

Capacity Building

• Provide guidance and tools to support HR Business Partners in helping their clients analyze their existing organization design, providing alternative models, and discussing costs and benefits of each model.
• Design and deliver workshops, briefings, and playbook with guidance, tools, and templates for HR Business Partners to lead strategic workforce planning with client units, and provide capacity building for clients and partners as needed.

Policies, Systems, Processes, Procedures, Standards and Reports

• Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions to ensure that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Assist in the preparation of accurate and timely functional MIS statements and reports to meet corporate and functional requirements, policies and standards.

Safety, Quality & Environment

• Apply safety, quality and environmental management policies, procedures and controls to ensure employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices considering ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business or any related social science field
• Minimum of 5 to 8 years of experience in a similar position

Skills

• Time Management
• Negotiation
• Problem Solving
• Team Building

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