General Manager Human Resources
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About the Role
Tasa Gulf Industry LLC is seeking a General Manager Human Resources to serve as the senior-most HR leader and strategic partner to the CEO. The role involves developing HR strategy, designing organizational structure, managing compensation, ensuring UAE labor law compliance, and leading HR digital transformation.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and execute annual and multi year HR strategy aligned to business expansion
- Design the full organizational structure (corporate, plant, sales, operations), reporting hierarchies, spans of control, and job architecture
- Build and own the enterprise wide job grading framework, salary bands, and compensation architecture benchmarked to UAE manufacturing standards
- Design and govern Performance Linked Incentive (PLI) structures tied to productivity, profitability, attendance discipline, and output quality
- Hold final approval authority over salary offers, promotions, grade changes, and exceptional compensation cases
- Develop the enterprise KPI framework, run biannual/annual appraisal cycles with 100% coverage, lead performance calibration, and govern PIP processes
- Ensure complete compliance with UAE Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021, MOHRE, Tasheel, and Nafis Emiratisation
- Manage large scale blue collar workforce discipline, attendance, shift patterns, overtime, labour accommodation, and outsourced manpower
- Handle escalated grievances, disciplinary inquiries, and legally defensible termination approvals
- Govern payroll accuracy and timeliness, approve monthly payroll before closure, and ensure zero error execution and audit ready employee files
- Lead HR digital transformation on Odoo HRMS — automating attendance, payroll, recruitment, performance, and records
- Deliver weekly CEO reporting, monthly headcount/cost/absenteeism dashboards, and quarterly workforce risk and talent pipeline reviews
Requirements
- Serve as the senior most HR leader and strategic partner to the CEO/Managing Director
- Develop and execute annual and multi year HR strategy aligned to business expansion
- Design the full organizational structure and job architecture
- Build and own the enterprise wide job grading framework, salary bands, and compensation architecture
- Ensure complete compliance with UAE Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021, MOHRE, Tasheel, and Nafis Emiratisation
- Manage large scale blue collar workforce discipline, attendance, shift patterns, overtime, labour accommodation
- Lead HR digital transformation on Odoo HRMS
- Prepare and control the annual HR budget
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Role Overview
- Serve as the senior most HR leader and strategic partner to the CEO/Managing Director, with final authority over HR policy, governance, compensation, and workforce decisions across manufacturing and corporate functions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute annual and multi year HR strategy aligned to business expansion; translate business goals into workforce structure, capability roadmaps, and manpower plans.
- Design the full organizational structure (corporate, plant, sales, operations), reporting hierarchies, spans of control, and job architecture; lead restructuring during scale up.
- Build and own the enterprise wide job grading framework, salary bands, and compensation architecture benchmarked to UAE manufacturing standards, ensuring internal pay equity.
- Design and govern Performance Linked Incentive (PLI) structures tied to productivity, profitability, attendance discipline, and output quality.
- Hold final approval authority over salary offers, promotions, grade changes, and exceptional compensation cases.
- Develop the enterprise KPI framework, run biannual/annual appraisal cycles with 100% coverage, lead performance calibration, and govern PIP processes with full documentation.
- Ensure complete compliance with UAE Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021, MOHRE, Tasheel, and Nafis Emiratisation; oversee bilingual contracts, visa/labour card governance, disciplinary and termination compliance, and government inspection handling.
- Manage large scale blue collar workforce discipline, attendance, shift patterns, overtime, labour accommodation, and outsourced manpower; reduce absenteeism and attrition and align with HSE/factory safety.
- Handle escalated grievances, disciplinary inquiries, and legally defensible termination approvals.
- Govern payroll accuracy and timeliness, approve monthly payroll before closure, and ensure zero error execution and audit ready employee files.
- Lead HR digital transformation on Odoo HRMS — automating attendance, payroll, recruitment, performance, and records — and maintain HR analytics dashboards.
- Deliver weekly CEO reporting, monthly headcount/cost/absenteeism dashboards, and quarterly workforce risk and talent pipeline reviews.
Additional Responsibilities
- Drive Training Needs Analysis, L&D calendars, leadership development, high potential identification, and succession planning for critical roles.
- Own employee engagement strategy, recognition programs, employer branding/EVP, and high performance culture across plant and corporate teams.
- Prepare and control the annual HR budget (payroll, recruitment, training, visas, insurance, benefits, incentives) and optimize manpower cost ratios without impacting productivity.
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