HR Director Built For Enterprise Transformation
A senior HR leader shaping enterprise-wide human capital strategy across complex, large-scale organizations, driving transformation, governance, and workforce performance at the highest level.
Based in Saudi Arabia, this HR leader brings over two decades of experience across national champions and global joint ventures, with a track record of leading enterprise-wide human capital transformation. The profile reflects leadership across HR functions at scale, including automation, policy redesign, compensation restructuring, and workforce optimization, supporting complex organizations in achieving both operational efficiency and long-term strategic goals.
This profile reflects a level of HR capability typically associated with executives operating within large-scale, highly regulated, and performance-driven environments. Experience has been built across organizations where workforce complexity, governance, and strategic alignment are critical to success.
The candidate’s career demonstrates a structured progression across all core areas of human resources, beginning with operational and advisory roles and advancing into division leadership and executive-level responsibility. Early experience within Saudi Aramco established a strong foundation in HR operations, employee relations, and workforce planning within one of the world’s most sophisticated corporate environments.
This foundation has been expanded through leadership roles across compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, and corporate affairs, culminating in senior positions overseeing full HR ecosystems and broader corporate functions including legal, government affairs, and public affairs within a major joint venture environment.
The profile reflects deep exposure to building and restructuring HR systems at scale. Key contributions include the design and implementation of salary structures, grading frameworks, HR policies, and performance management systems, alongside the automation of HR services to enhance efficiency and consistency across the organization.
Experience extends beyond HR execution into strategic workforce transformation. This includes leading large-scale workforce optimization initiatives, improving organizational efficiency, and aligning human capital strategies with broader business objectives in complex operating environments.
The candidate has operated closely with executive leadership, including direct engagement with CEOs and board-level stakeholders, contributing to decision-making across workforce strategy, organizational design, and long-term talent planning.
The academic foundation includes a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, complemented by advanced professional certifications in human capital management, compensation and benefits, recruitment, and learning and development, including CIPD Level 5 and multiple HRCI-aligned credentials.
In addition to formal qualifications, the profile reflects continuous development through hands-on leadership in complex HR environments, reinforcing both technical expertise and strategic judgment across multiple business cycles.
Senior HR roles are increasingly defined by the ability to move beyond administrative oversight into enterprise value creation. Organizations are seeking leaders who can build scalable systems, drive cultural alignment, manage regulatory complexity, and directly contribute to business performance.
Profiles with experience across national organizations, global partnerships, and multi-functional leadership structures are particularly aligned with these evolving requirements.
In large-scale organizations, HR effectiveness is determined not by process alone, but by the ability to translate strategy into workforce capability, align systems with performance, and drive measurable organizational outcomes. This profile reflects consistent experience in those conditions.
Talent Diamond represents a select group of confidential senior HR and executive leaders and works with organizations seeking to strengthen leadership capability through carefully aligned talent.
Organizations seeking to strengthen their human capital strategy or explore a confidential introduction may contact Ahmed Jamali at ahmed@talentdiamond.co
