HR Strategy Lead

Business & Product Management
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
October 10, 2023

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Job Description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer. 

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

A major integrated energy and chemicals companies is seeking a lead for its HR Strategy program.  This critical role will advise management on global HR best practices and make recommendations for adoption.  Key focus areas include:

  • HR Strategy Development & Execution – collaborate with HR departments to ensure that the HR Business Plan and initiatives are aligned with the HR Strategy and adapt to changes in the business environment.

  • HR Capability Building – develop the professional and leadership capabilities of the HR organization (Corporate and embedded) in order to deliver the HR Strategy.  This includes the identification and development of talent, with the objective of strengthening the talent pipeline.

  • HR Engagement & Communications – manage communications and engagement with key stakeholders, primarily the company’s young talent groups and HR Business Partner community.

  • HR Succession Planning & Leadership Talent Management – work with HR department heads to challenge their thinking on succession planning and strengthen individual development plans of high potential leadership talent.

Key Responsibilities

  • HR Strategy Execution – in conjunction with HR Departments and HR Business Partners, ensure delivery of the HR Strategy in order to optimize HR’s value to the company. 

  • HR Professional Qualifications Curriculum – oversee the development of HR professionals, to include targeted assessments, courses, and professional qualification programs. 

  • HR Metrics – collaborate with HR Business Partners and others to further strengthen the scorecard of key HR metrics.

Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology or Business/Management; advanced degree(s) preferred.

  • At least 10 years’ progressive Human Resources experience.

  • A proven successful track record of performing similar roles within large, complex, international and multi-cultural organizations; ideally with exposure to the Middle East.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.

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