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Role Overview
Senior People Business Partner at AlixPartners. The role is based in the UAE (Dubai, DIFC) or KSA (Riyadh, KAFD), reporting to the EMEA Head of People.
Company Overview
AlixPartners solves complex and critical business challenges through rapid movement from analysis to action. The firm actively promotes an inclusive environment and is committed to diversity, equity, and authenticity for employees, clients, and communities. AlixPartners operates a hybrid work model combining in-person (at client site or office) and remote working, with travel frequency varying based on client, team, and individual circumstances.
Role Purpose
The Senior People Business Partner works closely with Middle East leadership to shape and deliver a commercially focused people strategy. Operating within a global matrix, the role balances regional priorities with EMEA and global frameworks across performance and talent management, career development, succession planning, leadership capability, workforce planning, engagement, reward, organisational effectiveness, and diversity and inclusion.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Partnership & Leadership Support
- Partner with the Country Leader and Partner Managing Directors to shape, plan and execute the people agenda in support of local region market strategy and the firm's overarching strategy, ensuring alignment between business priorities and people decisions
- Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders, enhancing leadership effectiveness and providing pragmatic guidance across the full employee lifecycle
- Serve as the primary point of contact for client services leaders and colleagues on people, talent and organisational topics, recognised as a trusted subject matter expert by senior leadership
- Provide thoughtful challenge and risk-based guidance on people decisions, ensuring alignment with firm values, policies, strategy and governance requirements
Engagement, Retention & Performance
- Partner with business leadership to strengthen engagement, retention and performance by providing data-led insight, challenge and advice, and supporting the execution of targeted actions and interventions
- Oversee the delivery of effective performance and talent management processes, ensuring high-quality goal setting, differentiation, promotion decisions and timely interventions where required
Organisational Change & Effectiveness
- Lead organisational change and transformation initiatives by advising leaders on organisation design, ways of working and change management, embedding effective and scalable people practices across the region
Diversity & Inclusion
- Enable progress against diversity and inclusion objectives by partnering with leaders to translate firm-wide D&I strategy into local action, providing expertise, governance and challenge, and contributing to EMEA and/or global D&I initiatives
Reward & Compensation
- Advise on reward and pay decisions, ensuring they align with performance outcomes and firm principles, and working closely with global teams to apply firm-wide compensation frameworks and benchmarking insight in local contexts
Community & Collaboration
- Contribute to and lead EMEA-wide People Business Partner initiatives and projects, sharing best practice, driving consistency where appropriate and strengthening the overall People Business Partner community
Qualifications & Experience
- Significant HR experience, ideally 8+ years, including substantial experience operating as a strategic People or HR Business Partner
- Recent experience working within a multinational, matrixed organisation; experience in consulting, professional services or a partnership environment is strongly preferred
- Strong working knowledge of UAE and KSA employment law and local employment practices; knowledge of DIFC employment law is advantageous
- Valid residency for the UAE or KSA, or ability to obtain it; administrative support will be provided by AlixPartners to obtain relevant permits
- Ability to obtain any permits required to travel and work across EMEA
Skills & Competencies
- Commercially minded and collaborative approach with strong judgement and emotional intelligence
- Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to coach and constructively challenge senior leaders
- Strong analytical capability, with experience using people data and insight to identify trends, shape recommendations and support decision-making
- Strong track record of handling complex and sensitive employee relations matters with sound judgement, discretion and appropriate risk awareness
- High cultural awareness and ability to build trusted relationships across diverse, international and cross-functional stakeholder groups
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic language capability is advantageous
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment, manage competing priorities, and influence a diverse group of senior stakeholders
Additional Information
Work Location & Hours
KSA: Based in Riyadh, KAFD; 8:30am – 5:30pm, Sunday to Thursday, hybrid model
UAE: Based in Dubai, DIFC; 8:30am - 5:30pm, Monday to Friday, hybrid model
Other Requirements
- Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment
- Must become familiar with, and promote and abide by, AlixPartners' Core Values as defined by the Code of Conduct
- Must foster an inclusive environment with people at all levels of the organisation
Benefits
Market-leading benefits package providing flexible options to support employee needs.