Senior Manager HR

Purpose

HR Business Partnering

• Partner strategically with leaders of UAE-based non-commercial functions and align people agendas with business priorities and adidas strategy.
• Advise functional leadership teams on people, organization, culture, talent, performance, and DEI priorities.
• Coach leaders and managers and embed HR practices that support effective line management and an employee-oriented, high-performance culture.
• Understand internal customer needs and represent UAE global-function requirements in EMC's people agenda.
• Coordinate employee-lifecycle support with HR Centres of Excellence, HRS, and country HR teams.
• Manage development, recruitment, mobility, compensation, promotions, and workforce planning with relevant partners.

Talent Management

• Serve as EMC Talent SPOC and liaison with EMC, Emerging Markets, and Global Talent teams.
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, leadership assessment, development planning, and high-potential programs across markets.
• Drive cluster-wide talent calibration and alignment on talent decisions, succession pipelines, and organizational capability priorities.
• Identify capability gaps with HRBPs and business leaders and develop talent strategies.
• Analyze talent metrics, succession health, leadership bench strength, internal mobility, and retention trends; turn insights into recommendations.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills; strategic HR partnership capability and business acumen.
• Ability to balance hands-on HR partnering with cluster-level strategy, governance, and project work.
• Strong analytical, organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving capabilities; able to manage multiple priorities.
• Collaborative and inclusive approach, growth mindset, strong work ethic, integrity, and sound judgment.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills.

Education and Experience

• University degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, preferably in an international and matrix organization, with strong HR business partnering exposure.
• Experience leading cross-functional HR projects, governance processes, and strategic initiatives.
• Leadership-role experience is an advantage.

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