Vice President - HR

Job description / Role

This senior HR leadership role oversees people, culture, talent, and workforce capability across the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The position combines strategic impact with hands?on delivery, driving HR alignment during a period of rapid regional expansion.

Client Details

The company is a well-established organisation in the hospitality and tourism industry at a global level, renowned for its people-centric culture, dynamism and entrepreneurial flare!

Description

Key responsibilities for the role include:

* Establish and lead the HR function for the regional hub in Dubai
* Drive alignment of HR policy, process, systems, and onboarding across multiple countries
* Partner as part of the senior HR leadership team
* Oversee APAC and support their continued growth
* Build workforce planning, performance, mobility, TA, and compliance frameworks
* Lead TA transformation, reducing agency reliance and building in?house capability
* Ensure compliance across ME & APAC labour jurisdictions
* Support large?scale hiring for new openings and expansions
* Act as strategic advisor while remaining 90% hands?on in operations
* Strengthen culture, engagement, values, and leadership effectiveness across regions
* Serve as catalyst between sub?regions, ensuring consistency and alignment
* Travel to key sites as needed across ME & APAC
* Contribute to succession planning for future senior HR leadership roles

Job Offer

There is a competitive package on offer of up to 50,000 AED+ Benefits with potential for flex depending on experience.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced HR professional to make a significant impact in a thriving sector. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, apply today.

A successful VP HR should have:

* A relevant degree or professional HR certification.
* 10-15+ years HR generalist experience across multi country environments
* Strong Dubai and wider Middle East HR experience (essential)
* Hospitality, service, retail or fast-paced consumer facing sectors preferred
* Experience opening new locations or properties
* High cultural awareness and ability to work across diverse regions
* Hands-on operator comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
* Achievement driven, solutions-focused, low-ego leadership style
* Strong stakeholder management with executive-level exposure
* Ability to build teams, mentor regional HR leaders, and operate in lean structures
* Comfortable travelling across ME & APAC as required

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.