Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field.Experience.

• Minimum 7 years of HR experience with at least 4 in Rewards.

• Experience managing reward across multiple countries.

• Strong understanding of salary surveys and market benchmarking.

• Experience in annual compensation cycles and pay structure design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement the regional Reward strategy across MENA markets, ensuring alignment with global and regional business priorities.

• Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders to provide strategic advice on compensation, benefits, and reward-related decisions

• Ensure compliance with Global Reward policies, governance frameworks, and local statutory requirements across all MENA markets.

• Drive consistency and standardization of compensation practices while balancing local market competitiveness and business needs.

• Lead the annual compensation planning cycle, including merit increases• Develop, review, and optimize country-specific benefits strategies to ensure market competitiveness.

• Manage participation in external compensation surveys (Mercer, WTW, Korn Ferry) and ensure the quality and integrity of market data submissions.

• Analyze external market trends, inflation, labor market movements, and regulatory changes to provide data-driven reward recommendations.

• Prepare business cases and financial impact analyses for compensation and benefits proposals, ensuring alignment with SGA and budget targets.

• Lead and support strategic reward initiatives, including Reward Market Fit (RMF), pay transparency, living wage implementation and digitalization of reward processes.

• Drive continuous improvement by simplifying reward policies, enhancing governance, and identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency and the employee experience.