Senior Manager Talent Development

SupportFinity™; Riyadh Region; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading national airline in Saudi Arabia is seeking a talent professional to lead its workforce pipeline strategy and enhance leadership capabilities. The successful candidate will design talent pathways and governance for succession planning, ensuring long-term organizational readiness. With a minimum of 8 years of experience in talent management and at least 3 years in a leadership role within a global airline, you're invited to shape the future of air travel. Apply now to join this exciting opportunity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role in a global airline.
• Ability to operate in a multinational and culturally diverse environment.
• Experience in interpreting strategy to deliver objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise talent acceleration and workforce pipeline strategy.
• Design and govern talent pathways and succession planning frameworks.
• Facilitate enterprise Talent Reviews and calibrate succession pipelines.
• Facilitate Talent Reviews, calibration of succession pipelines and bench depth.
• Translate workforce forecasts and expansion plans into measurable Talent Management strategy with KPIs.

Skills

Talent Management

Leadership Development

Coaching

Workforce Strategy

Cultural Diversity

Education

Degree qualified

Job description

Riyadh Air (RX), headquartered in the Saudi Capital, is the new national airline that’s shaping the future of flying. It seeks to lead the aviation industry by transforming Saudi Arabia into a global aviation and trade hub – a digitally native airline that will connect the kingdom to more than 100 destinations.

About The Role

Can you architect a talent ecosystem that secures the future of aviation leadership and national capability?

We are looking for a talent professional to lead enterprise talent acceleration and workforce pipeline strategy, ensuring sustainable aviation capability, leadership continuity and long-term organisational readiness.

This role will design and govern hire-to-train and train-to-hire pathways, scholarship programmes, succession planning frameworks, high-potential (HiPO) development and executive coaching architecture aligned to strategic growth objectives.

You will facilitate enterprise Talent Reviews, calibrate succession pipelines and strengthen bench depth across critical operational, technical and leadership roles.

Working closely with key stakeholders, you will translate workforce forecasts, regulatory requirements and expansion plans into a measurable Talent Management strategy, supported by clear KPIs.

In addition, you will oversee structured management coaching, establish executive coaching governance, lead enterprise succession cycles with readiness categorisation, embed Individual Development Plans within performance frameworks, and apply skills intelligence to accelerate readiness.

Through rigorous needs analysis, competency mapping and data-led evaluation, you will ensure talent investments are targeted, scalable and aligned to operational risk mitigation and growth priorities.

Shape the leaders of tomorrow so the future of aviation takes off with strength and certainty.

About You

Degree qualified, you will demonstrate a minimum of 8 years of sound experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership role within a leading global airline.

You are expected to have demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a multinational and culturally diverse work environment.

We’d love to hear from you even more if you have experience of interpreting strategy and policies to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames.

This is your opportunity to shape the future of air travel. Bring your best and show us why you can own this position within Riyadh Air.

Please submit your application by clicking on the Apply button. Our Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing applications shortly.