About the role

Embark on a transformative journey as the Head of Talent, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our workforce and cultivating a culture of excellence, growth, and innovation. You will drive and implement best-in-class People Talent Products designed to improve business performance and productivity at Qatar Airways Group. Drive adoption of Talent and Performance Management philosophy, tools and frameworks, including clear governance, guidelines, processes, procedures, and systems to identify and track talent across the Group. Ensure developmental needs are documented and managed, enabling Management, HR and employees to excel in a strong and consistent performance culture. Shape and implement strategies that will help develop and retain high-performing employees.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop and align the Talent Management strategy in line with the overall HR Strategy (as set by SVP Talent) and ensure that all the Talent and Performance Management frameworks, process, policies and enabling activities evolve and retention of diverse talent and leadership pipelines that address both short - term business needs as well as future business objectives.
• Partner with HR Business Partnering to implement and operationalize a fully integrated talent management approach and continuously drive adoption (Talent Identification, Review, Succession, Performance, Organizational Development, Professional Journeys, Internal Mobility, Internal Promotion Process) – aiming for impact, consistency and simplification.
• In cooperation with Learning & Development Management (L&D), design, develop and manage highly effective leadership development initiatives to drive organizational culture of change management, inclusive leadership, and individualized development to improve the depth and bench strength of QR Group leadership at various levels across the organization.
• Leverage the output data from talent assessment and talent analytics teams effectively in the pursuit of evaluating and tracking talent, supporting the improvement in performance, managing key talent segments and elevating cross-business mobility.
• Manage leadership and succession development strategy and design programs that align with the business and talent objectives.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible

About You

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join the HR Team.

• High School / Vocational Qualification with minimum 12 years of job-related experience or Bachelor Degree with minimum 10 years of experience.
• Advanced Talent Management; ability to translate into action e.g. playbook/toolkits
• Experience in developing and implementing Talent Management Frameworks and strategies that align with our organization goals and objectives
• Advanced employee engagement experience
• Strong HR project management experience (eg: HR Transformational project or Digital Transformation projects)
• Great communicator and influencer by being collaborative and engaging – able to raise awareness and gain buy-in from different business units
• People leadership experience – varied teams of a diverse nature
• Change Management skills
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
• Strategic and commercial thinking

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community