People & Culture Manager

About the role

People strategy and talent

• Develop people strategy aligned with business objectives and advise senior leaders on people priorities.
• Drive engagement, retention, and culture initiatives and support a high-performance workplace.
• Partner with hiring managers on recruitment and workforce planning; oversee the employee lifecycle from attraction through exit.
• Develop onboarding processes, support succession planning, and identify future skills and workforce needs.

Performance and employee relations

• Own and improve performance management, including goal setting, reviews, and performance issues.
• Identify learning needs and implement training, development, and career progression initiatives.
• Advise managers and employees on HR policies and employee relations, handling matters fairly and in line with UAE employment legislation.
• Support disciplinary, grievance, and performance processes and promote an inclusive, respectful workplace.

HR operations and engagement

• Maintain effective, compliant HR policies, procedures, employee records, and documentation.
• Oversee HR administration covering contracts, onboarding, probation, leave, benefits, and offboarding.
• Coordinate with payroll and finance on accurate, timely employee payments and benefits.
• Monitor HR metrics and report insights to senior leaders; gather feedback and organize engagement and wellbeing initiatives.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a related discipline.
• Progressive HR experience, ideally in professional services, consulting, financial services, legal, accounting, or another corporate environment.
• Experience in a standalone or broad HR/People & Culture role and advising senior stakeholders and managers.
• Strong knowledge of UAE employment legislation and HR best practices.
• Experience in employee relations, performance management, and developing HR policies, processes, and people initiatives.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, stakeholder management, and analytical skills; able to use HR data to inform decisions.
• Commercially minded, organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.