A leading diversified group in Abu Dhabi is seeking a highly analytical and business-focused Senior Specialist, Organization Design & Effectiveness to support organization transformation, workforce planning, operating model design, policy governance, and business process improvement initiatives across multiple business units.
The successful candidate will play a key role in improving organizational effectiveness, enhancing productivity, supporting organization design initiatives, and ensuring workforce capabilities are aligned with business strategy and future growth objectives.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to assess organizational effectiveness, spans and layers, role clarity, accountability, decision rights, and operating efficiency.
- Support the design and implementation of operating models aligned with business strategy.
- Develop and maintain organization structures, reporting lines, governance forums, and accountability frameworks.
- Support restructuring, organization transformation, and change initiatives.
- Partner with HR stakeholders to support job architecture and role alignment activities.
- Support annual and multi-year workforce planning activities.
- Develop workforce analytics, dashboards, and reporting insights.
- Analyze workforce trends, productivity metrics, headcount, capacity utilization, and organizational efficiency.
- Partner with Finance and business leaders to align workforce plans with budgets and growth targets.
- Draft and maintain organizational and people-related policies, standards, and procedures.
- Support governance reviews, controls, and policy compliance activities.
- Conduct impact assessments and policy implementation reviews.
- Lead or support process mapping, process redesign, and business process re-engineering initiatives.
- Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for operational improvement.
- Collaborate with Digital and IT teams to support process automation and optimization initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 8 years of relevant experience in Organization Development, Organization Design, Workforce Planning, Organizational Effectiveness, or Process Improvement.
- Experience supporting organization restructuring, operating model design, workforce transformation, or organizational effectiveness initiatives.
- Proven experience participating in business process improvement or business process re-engineering projects.
- Strong experience working with senior stakeholders across multiple business functions.
- Experience developing workforce insights, organizational analytics, and management reporting.
- Experience drafting policies, governance documentation, procedures, and organizational standards is preferred.
- Consulting experience, either in-house or with a consulting firm, would be advantageous.
