HR Manager - CIB (UAE National)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Coach CIB managers on performance, capability, talent, and development.
• Create workforce, skills, learning, and succession plans aligned with CIB and HR priorities.
• Support organization design, operating-model reviews, role clarity, spans, layers, and location strategy.
• Partner with business, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and HR stakeholders.
• Facilitate talent and succession discussions and champion inclusive decisions.
• Coordinate solutions with HR Operations, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Learning and Development, and Reward.
• Advise managers on performance, conduct, and employee-relations matters; maintain fair processes and governance.
• Keep HR governance, labour-law alignment, and internal controls on the agenda.
• Use people metrics to identify insight and guide action.
• Drive people projects through planning, risk management, communications, and adoption.

Requirements

• A graduation degree is essential for UAE work-permit eligibility.
• For university certificates issued outside the UAE, current attestations and equivalency are mandatory under UAE recognition requirements.
• Experience in HR generalist or advisory work in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Banking, financial services, or another regulated environment is preferred.
• Strong coaching across performance management, talent, succession, and development planning.
• Knowledge of HR risk, controls, and employee relations; sound judgment in involving specialists.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and deliver through HR Business Partners and Centres of Excellence.
• Discretion, emotional intelligence, cross-cultural communication, and a proactive, customer-focused approach.

Flexible working

• The employer supports flexible and alternative working arrangements, including working from home and different hours, where possible and subject to approvals.

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