Senior Manager - HR Business Partner

Qiddiya Investment Company; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking an HR Business Partner to deliver tailored HR solutions across divisions and collaborate with business leaders. The role focuses on strategic leadership, workforce planning, and talent management to align HR programs with organizational objectives.

The successful candidate will drive the localization of HR initiatives to match market contexts, oversee policy consistency, and support compensation discussions and onboarding experiences.

Qualifications

• Requires strong strategic HR partnering skills across divisions.
• Experience in organizational design and workforce planning.
• Ability to localize HR initiatives for market contexts.
• Proven track record in talent management and performance development.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic partnerships with divisional leaders, aligning HR with business goals.
• Champion cross-HR collaboration to integrate talent strategies with business priorities.
• Lead organization design and workforce planning to meet talent needs.
• Oversee HR program management ensuring policy consistency and fairness.
• Support employee relations, onboarding, and compensation discussions.
• Develop and mentor HRBP team to achieve high performance and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Business partnership

Organizational design

Workforce planning

Talent management

Policy localization

Onboarding management

Compensation governance

Recruitment collaboration

People management

Coaching and development

Performance management

Employee engagement

Job description

Perform business partnering by delivering tailored HR solutions for assigned divisions. Collaborate with business leaders and HR colleagues to address organizational challenges, support workforce planning, and implement HR programs. Ensure HR initiatives and policies are effectively localized and consistently applied to drive divisional and organizational objectives.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Prepares and manages the annual budget for the HR Business Partner Department and reporting Sections in conjunction with the HR Division's budget and tracks expenditure to ensure adherence to the budget
• Develops and implements the operating plan for the HR Business Partner Department in alignment with the HR Divisional strategic plans to ensure achievement of Qiddiya's overall objectives
• Manages and controls the operating framework for the HR Business Partner Department, provides guidance and support, ensures implementation and review of work processes to achieve high performance standards and continuous improvement

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Business Partnership

• Develop strategic partnerships with divisional business leaders by understanding their goals, challenges and opportunities, positioning HR as a trusted advisor.
• Champion collaboration with HR departments to integrate divisional talent strategies with business priorities.
• Evaluate divisional business-specific gaps and authorize solutions in partnership with CoEs to address employee needs.
• Define team objectives by understanding divisional business objectives and challenges to deliver tailored HR solutions.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating HRBP team performance, approving best practices, and driving innovation across supported divisions.

Organizational Design, Workforce Planning, and Talent Management

• Lead team efforts in organization design and workforce planning to identify talent needs in partnership with CoEs.
• Approve workforce assessments to ensure divisional workforce requirements are met.
• Establish and evaluate processes for divisional team restructuring, talent redeployment and cross-unit moves to optimize workforce agility and support business transformation.
• Oversee the localization and tailoring of HR initiatives to address unique divisional and market contexts.

HR Program Management

• Champion the consistent application of HR policies across divisions to resolve exceptions and escalations, ensuring fair treatment and effectively managing sensitive employee matters and grievances.
• Oversee the onboarding experience journey by setting expectations, approving processes, and ensuring seamless integration for new hires, resulting in alignment with organizational culture and process consistency.
• Engage actively in compensation decisions by approving discrepancy resolutions and supporting team-led conversations, ensuring fairness and equity in compensation across divisions.
• Collaborate with recruitment teams to approve exceptions and align offers with organization-wide standards, ensuring equity and consistency in employment terms.
• Set direction for divisional compensation review and role clarity processes to drive transparency, retention, and fairness of rewards across business groups.
• Set direction for supporting divisional people leaders in day-to-day employee relations to enable timely resolution of recurring team issues and foster a positive work environment.

People/Self Management Responsibilities

• Develops a continuous talent pipeline for key roles in the HR Business Partner Department and provides mentoring for high potential talent in the team in the organization to create future leaders
• Monitors and enables the achievement of goals and key performance indicators for direct reports and ensures effective implementation of the performance management process in the department to create a high-performance team
• Ensures high level of employee engagement and capability development by providing on-going feedback and coaching to team members within the HR Business Partner Department to ensure creation of a learning culture within Qiddiya