The appointment
What the business needed.
The brief
An international wellness and health-technology business needed a Dubai-based HR leader for the Middle East and the GCC. The role had to apply the group’s global people priorities to a growing regional workforce, most of it expatriate.
What made it hard
The brief joined two requirements that seldom meet in one person. It asked for hands-on UAE and GCC employment experience, including expatriate contracts, mobility and localisation, and it asked for fluent Italian as well as English. Together they left a short list.
Who we found
A senior HR leader with UAE and GCC employment experience, a record of leading largely expatriate workforces alongside multinational leadership teams, and fluent English and Italian.
What changed
The business gained a regional HR lead in Dubai, responsible for people strategy, engagement and performance, expatriate employment and localisation, recruitment and succession planning, and employee-relations advice across the GCC.
Role focus
What the role covered.
HR Leadership
GCC
Expatriate Workforce
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