Assistant Director, People & Culture
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About the Role
FAENA seeks an Assistant Director of People & Culture to support HR operations, compliance, and talent development for a pre-opening hotel in Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on localization, employee relations, and culture engagement.
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Responsibilities
- Support day to day People & Culture operations including employee relations, contracts, onboarding, and offboarding
- Ensure compliance with Saudi labor law and platforms (GOSI, Mudad, Qiwa, Absher, Muqeem)
- Assist in recruitment activities for pre opening with focus on Saudi nationals
- Coordinate onboarding programs, inductions, and culture immersion sessions
- Support workforce planning, manpower tracking, and headcount control
- Bring Faena's culture to life through engagement initiatives and recognition programs
- Act as trusted first point of contact for colleagues
- Coordinate training logistics, learning calendars, and compliance training
Requirements
- 5+ years of HR experience, preferably in hospitality
- Knowledge of Saudi labor law and related platforms (GOSI, Mudad, Qiwa, etc.)
- Saudi National required
- Experience in pre opening hotel environment preferred
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The Role
- As Assistant Director of People & Culture, you will support the Director in bringing Faena's people philosophy to life.
- You will play a key role in pre opening readiness and ongoing People & Culture operations.
- As a Saudi National, you will support localization goals and regulatory excellence.
What You Will Create
- Support day to day People & Culture operations including employee relations, contracts, onboarding, and offboarding.
- Ensure compliance with Saudi labor law and related platforms (GOSI, Mudad, Qiwa, Absher, Muqeem).
- Maintain accurate people records, data integrity, and reporting.
- Assist in recruitment activities for pre opening with focus on Saudi nationals.
- Coordinate onboarding programs, inductions, and culture immersion sessions.
- Support workforce planning, manpower tracking, and headcount control.
- Help bring Faena's culture to life through engagement initiatives and recognition programs.
- Act as trusted first point of contact for colleagues.
- Support wellbeing, engagement surveys, and action planning.
- Coordinate training logistics, learning calendars, and compliance training.
- Support leadership development and internal talent pipelines.
- Work closely with department leaders to support people initiatives.
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