Senior Manager - HR Strategy and Project Management

Manage the development, governance, and execution of RSG's HR strategy framework, project portfolio, and divisional planning cycle, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and integrated delivery across all HR functions. Functional Responsibilities Manage the development and maintenance of RSG's People and HR strategy framework and HR service model, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and evolving business priorities across all HR functions. Monitor the execution of the HR strategy roadmap, tracking progress against defined milestones, identifying delivery risks, and providing structured performance updates to senior HR leadership. Drive the governance of strategic HR projects and initiatives, establishing reporting cadences, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring timely and structured delivery in line with defined objectives. Act as the focal point for HR project governance, maintaining structured delivery frameworks, documentation standards, and stakeholder coordination protocols across all active HR strategic initiatives. Manage the annual business planning cycle for the HR division, coordinating input from all HR functions, consolidating deliverables and budget submissions, and ensuring timely alignment with RSG's business planning calendar. Develop, cascade, and monitor the HR division's KPIs and objectives in coordination with the Strategy & Performance division, ensuring alignment with corporate performance frameworks and consistent tracking across all HR functions. Integrate change management strategies into RSG projects and initiatives that affect people, overseeing stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and transition support, while monitoring and managing the people impact of organizational changes to ensure smooth adoption throughout the change process, in alignment with the organizational culture and internal communications units. Develop and maintain the HR shared services delivery model between Group HR and RSG subsidiaries, defining the service catalog, pricing framework, and governance method, and conducting periodic HR maturity assessments to inform continuous improvement. Facilitate alignment between corporate strategy and HR deliverables through structured project planning, milestone tracking, and cross-functional execution reviews. Contribute to enterprise-wide transformation initiatives from an HR strategy perspective, in collaboration with the organization design & workforce planning section and other relevant HR functions, ensuring operational and people impacts are assessed, planned, and executed in the best interest of RSG. Support the development and implementation of RSG's Saudization strategy in collaboration with relevant HR functions, contributing to workforce localization planning, people upskilling, succession planning, and vocational and internship programs, ensuring HR's role in Saudization compliance and regulatory reporting is fulfilled in alignment with internal control standards. Support GRC and internal audit processes from a project governance perspective by maintaining structured documentation of HR strategic initiatives, milestone tracking records, and divisional performance reports, coordinating with the HR Policies & Procedures section as the primary compliance and regulatory contact for the HR division. Managerial Responsibilities Contribute to providing input to the Department s strategy from the Section or Unit perspective, in alignment with RSG s vision and mission. Contribute to developing the Section or Unit s objectives, KPIs, and annual operational plans, ensuring implementation meets performance targets. Contribute to the Section or Unit s budget preparation and monitor financial performance. Implement and ensure adherence to Section or Unit policies and procedures; oversee performance and KPI communication. Ensure effective staffing, development, and deployment of Section or Unit employees in coordination with higher management. Technical Competencies: HR Strategic Planning - Advanced Project & Initiative Governance - Advanced Change Management - Advanced Performance Monitoring & Reporting - Advanced Stakeholder Management - Advanced Data Literacy & Analytics - Intermediate Business Acumen - Intermediate Digital Fluency & HR Systems - Intermediate Job Context: Office-based position located at RSG Riyadh HQ, with site visits to RSG destinations as required. Qualifications & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field. (Master s Degree Preferred) 10 years (with 2+ in managerial roles) of relevant experience Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent project governance certification is preferred HR certifications such as SHRM-CP, CIPD, APHRI, or equivalent are preferred Experience in organizational change management or holding a recognized change management certification (e.g., Prosci, ACMP) is preferred