Policy & Planning Specialist

Aramco Gulf Operations Company; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading oil and gas company in Saudi Arabia is looking for an Organizational Development Specialist responsible for driving OD programs and initiatives that promote high performance and productivity within the organization. The position requires designing HR tools, analyzing job descriptions, implementing performance communications, and ensuring continuous improvement in HR services. Proficiency in data analysis and effective communication skills in English and Arabic is essential. This role offers the opportunity to impact the organization's workforce development significantly.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing HR tools and practices for competitive human capital.
• Proficiency in data analysis and benchmarking.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement OD programs and initiatives.
• Provide support to business managers on OD interventions.
• Analyze job description change requests and implement updates.
• Implement performance management communications across the organization.
• Conduct HR metrics analysis and provide insights.

Skills

Data analysis

Organizational Development

Coaching

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Job Purpose

Responsible for the development of a range of OD programs and initiatives designed to build an organizational culture that drives performance and lifts productivity. Provides advice and hands‑on solution design for the successful implementation of programs and practices that build a high‑performance, future‑ready and value‑led workforce.

Job Dimensions and Business Metrics

• Highest level of confidentiality and access to information which unauthorized disclosure could be expected to have a severe or catastrophic adverse effect on organizational operations, organizational assets, or individuals.

Key Accountabilities

• Designs, monitors, initiates, and audits organization development/HR tools and practices that guarantee and support the existence of competitive human capital, who will contribute to achieve the corporate objectives.
• Contributes to the development and maintenance of HR/OD policies and frameworks to support the delivery of HR’s core strategies
• Works with HR colleagues to provide support to business managers with specific OD interventions and ad‑hoc queries.
• Contributes to the delivery and facilitation of events, workshops and programs.
• Contributes to developing processes and frameworks to ensure the development of quality OD activities, and to measures and report on the effectiveness of OD interventions.
• Develop strong working relationships with the wider HR team and business managers to ensure the OD activities are well embedded in the business.
• Gathers feedback on the effectiveness of the organization’s career development framework, policy, and programs in shaping workforce’s career progression and recommend areas for improvement.
• Designs and maintains the methodology for organizational structure creation.
• Analyzes all organizational change requests, proposes rollout plan and coordinates implementation.
• Designs and maintains the methodology for the job creation and ensures accurate job description database.
• Analyzes all job description change requests, revises job content, conducts interviews with management and coordinates implementation of new job descriptions.
• Delivers effective communications toolkit on performance management programs and policies to the people, ensuring that they understand how they will be evaluated, rewarded, or developed, according to their performance evaluation. Plans and execute organization-wide communications activities to communicate organization-wide performance management system.
• Implement compensation structure through job analysis and evaluations, employee feedback and external industry analysis to ensure that compensation remains relevant for the business and is market-competitive.
• Benchmarks benefit from other comparable organizations.
• Propose and implement benefits that would meet the needs of the workforce and within the approved budget.
• Plans and implement activities to communicate the benefits offered by the organization.
• Applies data governance concepts and principles to identify, collect and prepare data for analytics and HR metrics benchmarking. Analyses financial and HR data by employing data mining, modelling, predictive analytics, and benchmarking tools and techniques to create insights and foresights to guide decision-making. Correlates financial and HR data to design HR metrics, identify causal relationships, analyses trends, develop forecasts and projections, and draw insights and foresights for decision-making. Develops insightful presentation derived from data analytics and HR metrics benchmarking using dashboards or data visualization tools.
• Keeps abreast of local and global HR trends and developments to provide further benchmarking insights on data analysis outcomes.
• Reviews the range of HR services against their corresponding HR service delivery channels critically to identify opportunities for continuous improvement of service quality or costs reduction.
• Implements HR transformation programs to improve the effectiveness of HR service delivery and cost efficiency for the organization.
• Provide coaching and advice to junior team members.
• Recommend policies and procedures related to the Organizational Development activities to the direct manager.

Skills

Language Skills

(English and Arabic)

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Required proficiency level B2.