HR Senior Manager Middle East
Fendi
Date: 1 day ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time
Position
The HR Senior Manager for the Middle East serves as a strategic business partner, responsible for the alignment, effective implementation, and continuous monitoring of HR policies and initiatives within the Region. This pivotal role is key to upholding company standards, driving organizational growth, and fostering talent development.
Job Responsibilities
LVMH is committed to non-discrimination and respect of each person’s singularities.
We recognize and recruit all types of talent
The HR Senior Manager for the Middle East serves as a strategic business partner, responsible for the alignment, effective implementation, and continuous monitoring of HR policies and initiatives within the Region. This pivotal role is key to upholding company standards, driving organizational growth, and fostering talent development.
Job Responsibilities
- Strategic Business Partnering with Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor to regional and market leaders, translating business priorities into people strategies that support growth, performance, and organizational effectiveness across the Middle East.
- Workforce Planning & Organizational Effectiveness: Partner with business leaders to assess organizational capabilities, anticipate talent needs, and shape structures, roles, and succession pipelines that enable agility and sustainable business performance.
- Performance, Talent & Leadership Advisory: Guide managers on performance management, talent reviews, and leadership development, ensuring differentiated talent decisions and strong people leadership aligned with business objectives.
- Culture & Talent Engagement: Champion talent engagement across the assigned region in collaboration with central HR team and functional leaders. Enable leaders to activate Fendi culture through consistent behaviors and team practices.
- Change Management & Employee Relations: Support business transformation by leading the people side of change, advising leaders on complex employee relations matters, and ensuring decisions are locally relevant, compliant, and consistent with company values.
- Data-Driven People Decisions & Cross-Functional Influence: Use people insights and HR metrics to challenge, influence, and support business decisions, while partnering with Finance, Retail, and regional stakeholders to drive a high-performing and resilient organization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Law, Economics, or a related field; a postgraduate qualification or MBA is a plus.
- Fluent in English and Arabic, with the cultural awareness and credibility to influence diverse stakeholders across the Middle East; French is a plus.
- Strong understanding of the Middle East retail and luxury landscape, with the ability to connect market dynamics, commercial priorities, and people strategies.
- Broad HR leadership background across talent, organization design, performance, employee relations, and people development, with the ability to translate business priorities into effective HR actions.
- 5-7 yrs of experience in a senior HR leadership role within luxury, retail, or an international consumer-driven environment, with proven success partnering senior business leaders across multiple markets.
- Solid knowledge of GCC labor regulations and HR practices, with the ability to balance compliance, business needs, and employee experience across different markets.
- Demonstrated agility, execution focus, and sound judgment and integrity, with a hands-on approach and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrix, and evolving environment.
- Strong team player with the ability to work collaboratively across functions, markets, and corporate teams, fostering alignment, trust, and a one-team mindset.
- Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and build trust with senior leaders and managers.
LVMH is committed to non-discrimination and respect of each person’s singularities.
We recognize and recruit all types of talent
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