Senior Manager - HR Strategy and Project Management

Job purpose

Functional responsibilities

• Manage the HR strategy framework and service model in line with corporate strategy and evolving business priorities.
• Track HR roadmap milestones and delivery risks, and report progress to senior HR leadership.
• Govern strategic HR initiatives through reporting cadences, cross-functional coordination, delivery frameworks, and documentation standards.
• Coordinate the HR annual planning cycle, consolidate functional deliverables and budget submissions, and align with the business planning calendar.
• Develop and monitor HR division KPIs and objectives with the Strategy & Performance division.
• Plan stakeholder engagement, communications, and transition support for people-impacting changes; monitor organizational adoption and people impacts.
• Maintain the HR shared services model between Group HR and subsidiaries, including service catalog, pricing, governance, and periodic maturity assessments.
• Support enterprise transformation and align HR deliverables with corporate strategy through project plans, milestone tracking, and execution reviews.
• Support Saudization, workforce localization, upskilling, succession planning, vocational and internship programs, compliance, and regulatory reporting.
• Maintain initiative and performance records for GRC and internal audit, coordinating with HR Policies & Procedures on compliance matters.

Managerial responsibilities

• Contribute to unit strategy, objectives, KPIs, operational plans, budget preparation, and financial performance monitoring.
• Implement unit policies and procedures, communicate performance and KPIs, and coordinate employee staffing, development, and deployment.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field.
• 10 years of relevant experience, including 2 or more years in managerial roles.
• A master’s degree is preferred.

Preferred certifications

• PMP or equivalent project governance certification is preferred.
• SHRM-CP, CIPD, APHRI, or equivalent HR certification is preferred.
• Organizational change management experience or a recognized certification such as Prosci or ACMP is preferred.

Technical competencies

• Advanced HR strategic planning, project and initiative governance, change management, performance monitoring and reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Intermediate data literacy and analytics, business acumen, and digital fluency and HR systems.

Work context

• Office-based at RSG Riyadh headquarters, with site visits to RSG destinations as required.