As Head of People & Culture - Saudi Arabia, you will lead the development and execution of the people strategy across the Kingdom, ensuring alignment with business priorities and organizational values. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will drive talent, culture, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, and workforce planning initiatives that support sustainable business growth while fostering an inclusive and high-performing workplace. Based in Accor office in Jeddah and reporting to the Regional Director of People & Culture GCC & Levant.
What You Will Be Responsible For:
People and Culture Regional Strategy
- Work with the hotel People & Culture and operational leaders establish the People & Culture roadmap with annual objectives and action plans.
- Activate the People & Culture strategy with operational leaders and GMs to ensure alignment and commitment to its delivery.
- Champion the Heartist program ensuring that the employees and guests are at the center of all strategic decisions and initiatives.
- Build and manage relationship with General Managers and People & Culture in hotels in order to ensure implementation of all projects and initiatives.
Talent Acquisition
Partner with hotels People & Culture leaders to:
- Maintain all the localization rules set by the Ministry of Tourism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and ensure full compliance by all hotels.
- Maintain a best practice recruitment approach, including Accor s recruitment management system, to attract the best applicants.
- Anticipate recruitment needs and maintain a leadership pipeline of potential candidates and talents to match hotel needs.
- Provide approach and actions plan in order to attract the best talent (including presentations to hospitality schools and universities, social media and job websites)
- Ensure the Hotel selection process is compliant with the Company policy (Assessment, interview guides, validation steps in selection process, etc).
Talent Management & Talent Development
Ensure that a strong talent management culture is promoted among all leaders through the Talent Management Cycle: continuous feedback conversations, yearly wrap-up reviews, potential assessments, talent reviews, career development interviews/PDP and succession planning.
Support the leadership team in the talent management cycle, Promote employee (local/foreigner) mobility, which meet the region s growth and needs.
Work with Accor Academy to ensure that the learning offer meets the needs of the business today and in the future.
Coordinate effectively with the Learning & Development, Brand, and Accor Academy to ensure consistent Brand orientation and Brand culture programs roll out in all properties
Employment Law and Labor Relations
- Act as an advisor for hotels for any employment law and labor relations as per the country labor laws.
- Ensure proper follow-up and due diligence on all employee complaints and liaise with hotels People & Culture leaders and General Managers.
- Monitor legislative changes and provide guidance to People & Culture business leaders.
- Heartists engagement and workplace culture improvement programs.
What We re Looking For:
- 10+ years of progressive People & Culture (Human Resources) leadership experience, preferbaly across multiple properties, regions, or business units.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to work effectively and contribute in a team environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Flexible and able to embrace and respond to change effectively
- In-depth knowledge of Saudi Labor Law and implementing regulations (Nitaqat, Qiwa, Gosi, Mudad, etc)
- Proven ability to advise executive teams and influence business decisions.
- Change management and transformation leadership.
- Data-driven decision making using HR analytics.
- Workforce productivity and labor cost optimization.
- Executive presence and business partnership mindset.
- Cultural sensitivity and ability to operate in a multicultural environment.
- Resilience, discretion, and ability to manage confidential matters
