HR Senior Manager Middle East
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About the Role
Fendi seeks an HR Senior Manager for the Middle East to act as a strategic business partner, aligning HR policies with business priorities. The role involves workforce planning, talent management, culture engagement, and change management.
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Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to regional and market leaders, translating business priorities into people strategies
- Partner with business leaders to assess organizational capabilities, anticipate talent needs, and shape structures, roles, and succession pipelines
- Guide managers on performance management, talent reviews, and leadership development
- Champion talent engagement across the assigned region in collaboration with central HR team and functional leaders
- Support business transformation by leading the people side of change
- Advise leaders on complex employee relations matters, ensuring decisions are locally relevant, compliant, and consistent with company values
- Use people insights and HR metrics to challenge, influence, and support business decisions
- Partner with Finance, Retail, and regional stakeholders to drive a high performing and resilient organization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Law, Economics, or related field; postgraduate qualification or MBA is a plus
- Fluent in English and Arabic; French is a plus
- Strong understanding of the Middle East retail and luxury landscape
- Broad HR leadership background across talent, organization design, performance, employee relations, and people development
- 5 7 years of experience in a senior HR leadership role within luxury, retail, or international consumer driven environment
- Solid knowledge of GCC labor regulations and HR practices
- Demonstrated agility, execution focus, sound judgment and integrity
- Strong team player with ability to work collaboratively across functions and markets
- Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
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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 growt
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.
Profile
- 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.
Additional information
- LVMH is committed to non discrimination and respect of each person’s singularities.
- We recognize and recruit all types of talent.
- The Fendi Maison was established by Adele and Edoardo Fendi in Rome in 1925. The opening of the first Fendi boutique – a handbag shop and fur workshop followed. Soon winning international acclaim, Fendi emerged as a brand renowned for its elegance, craftsmanship, innovation and style.
- Called by the legendary five Fendi sisters, the collaboration with the late Karl Lagerfeld began back in 1965 and lasted 54 years. In 1992, Silvia Venturini Fendi seconded him in the Artistic Direction; in 1994, she is given the direction of Accessories and later of Menswear.
- In 2000, the LVMH group acquires Fendi becoming in 2001 its majority shareholder. Appointed in 2020, Kim Jones held the role of Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear until 2024. Since 2020, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, fourth generation of the Fendi family, is Artistic Director of Jewellery. Today
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