Regional Talent Management & Transformation

Lead and coordinate transformation and change management activities across the MEA region, ensuring alignment with corporate organisation design principles and governance. Develop a scalable and practical change framework to support transformation projects across the region, ensuring upskilling of HR teams and management. Lead and champion regional change management initiatives by aligning stakeholders, driving adoption of transformation programs, and ensuring consistent communication, engagement, and sustainable behavioral change. Implement and align talent and succession frameworks across subsidiaries, ensuring consistent application of processes and integration of Employee Development Cards, Talent Development Cards and skills matrices. Support subsidiaries in developing successors for core, critical and leadership roles, balancing operational needs with succession pipeline. Enable talent mobility across the region, by supporting transparent talent visibility, career pathing, and targeted development opportunities. Monitor talent risks, readiness, diversity, and bench strength across the region and escalate insights to leadership to mitigate and ensure fit for future preparedness. Lead and align all psychometric and leadership assessments, collaborating with external vendors and all relevant internal stakeholders. Drive the strategic adoption and optimization of AI tools and capabilities across the region to accelerate decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure rapid, high-quality execution, including the creation and scalable use of AI agents. Align regional frameworks with global frameworks and governance for leadership, culture, transformation, change and related talent processes. Align leadership and transformation priorities with business strategy organizational goals, workforce needs and regional realities. Design leadership assessments and development journeys including competency models, 360 feedback, readiness diagnostics, coaching and mentoring. Develop transformation and change approaches toolkits and templates based on business demands and cultural context. Assess and shape organizational culture using surveys, interviews, engagement analytics and targeted culture-building initiatives. Measure effectiveness, adoption and pipeline readiness through KPIs, post-implementation reviews and continuous improvement.

Desired Candidate Profile

Your Profile You contribute Minimum of 8-10 years of Human Resources and Business Administration Completed master's degree in Human Resources/Business 21% - 30% Travel required. Organization design principles and frameworks, change management methodologies, talent management, talent development strategies, succession management. Strong expertise in leadership frameworks, assessment methods, culture, succession and enterprise change approaches. Proven experience designing and scaling leadership, talent and transformation programs and advising senior business and HR stakeholders. Excellent facilitation, coaching, consulting, communication, analytical and cross-cultural collaboration skills. Experience in optimising AI tools and capabilities and the creation of AI agents. Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen Has integrity & ethical judgement Has continuous improvement mindset Strategic and operational leadership