Director People & Culture - Hospitality - UAE

Job no: 600518
Work type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UAE
Categories: Food

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Our Hospitality Division brings together globally recognized brands, diverse teams and customer experiences. As the division enters its next chapter under new leadership, this role will build on the strong foundations already in place and help carry forward the people, culture and leadership legacy that has supported Hospitality’s success to date.

We are looking for a People & Culture Director to join the Hospitality Leadership Team, reporting directly to the President of Hospitality. This is an opportunity to build from the work already established to strengthen the division’s people agenda, shape its culture, develop its leaders and support an organization positioned for growth.

What the role entails

  • People Strategy and Business Partnership: Shape the divisional people agenda in partnership with the President, Hospitality Leadership Team and central People function, ensuring people priorities support business strategy, commercial performance and the division’s leadership transition.
  • Culture and Transformation: Champion a high-performance culture, lead organisational change and embed people-first leadership behaviours that honour the division’s strengths while supporting its next phase of ambition.
  • Organisational Effectiveness: Work with the central People teams to shape workforce planning, organisational design, performance and reward, so solutions reflect the division’s commercial and operational priorities.
  • Talent and Succession: Identify critical capability needs and strengthen leadership pipelines, driving succession planning, leadership development and internal mobility in a way that supports continuity, fair opportunity and future growth.
  • Employee Experience: Strengthen engagement and employee experience across the division while leading a high-performing P&C team that delivers consistently across markets.

What we’re looking for

  • Commercial & Strategic Acumen: Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to connect people priorities to business performance and influence senior stakeholders.
  • People and Culture Leadership: A strong track record of building high-performing teams, developing leaders and shaping     a positive, performance-driven culture, with working knowledge of core talent processes, organisational design and reward, supported by the central People team.
  • Transformation & Change: Experience leading organisational change, navigating complexity and building capability to support business growth.
  • Leadership Style: A collaborative, commercially minded leader who combines strategic perspective with operational understanding and can influence effectively across a matrixed, multi-brand organisation.

Advertised: Arabian Standard Time
Application close: Arabian Standard Time

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