Senior Manager Performance Management

About the Role

Qiddiya | القدية is seeking a Senior Manager Performance Management to lead the governance, delivery, and continuous enhancement of the organization's Performance Management and Promotion practices. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is critical for fostering a high-performance culture aligned with strategic business objectives.

Strategic Performance and Promotion Management

This position involves providing strategic advisory, quality assurance, and delivery oversight across performance and promotion cycles. The Senior Manager will ensure consistent, effective, and fair implementation while strengthening stakeholder capability and driving continuous improvement. Key responsibilities include:

• Anticipating evolving business needs related to performance management and promotion, assessing organizational challenges, and analyzing cycle outcomes.
• Benchmarking market trends and translating insights into strategic recommendations that influence leadership decisions.
• Challenging conventional practices and introducing forward-thinking, scalable solutions to transform performance and promotion practices.
• Shaping strategies that strengthen accountability, meritocracy, and performance excellence, driving a sustainable high-performance culture.
• Evolving performance and promotion frameworks to ensure alignment with business priorities and maximize organizational effectiveness.

Promotion Cycle Governance and Delivery

The role leads the end-to-end delivery and governance of the annual promotion cycle, ensuring effective planning, execution, and adherence to established timelines and standards. Specific duties include:

• Guiding and implementing promotion activities across submissions, validations, assessments, calibration inputs, governance reviews, and approval workflows.
• Providing strategic guidance to HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and business stakeholders on promotion requirements and decision-making considerations.
• Driving stakeholder engagement, communications, and issue resolution to facilitate timely completion of promotion activities.
• Monitoring promotion progress, risks, exceptions, and compliance requirements, implementing mitigation actions as needed.
• Leading the development of promotion governance trackers, analyses, reports, and documentation to support transparency and executive decision-making.

Performance Management Operations and Engagement

This position leads the end-to-end delivery and governance of the Performance Management lifecycle, ensuring all stages are effectively governed, integrated, and executed. Responsibilities include:

• Providing direction, prioritization, and oversight across Performance Management operations, analytics, learning, communications, and engagement activities.
• Overseeing the design and execution of Performance Management training, engagement, and awareness initiatives.
• Coaching leaders, managers, and employees on effective performance conversations, feedback delivery, and employee development.
• Leading the development and implementation of change management and adoption strategies for new Performance Management initiatives.
• Reviewing and challenging key deliverables, reports, communications, and recommendations to ensure quality and alignment.
• Identifying delivery risks, operational challenges, and improvement opportunities, driving continuous enhancement of processes.
• Acting as the subject matter expert for performance management practices and trends.
• Overseeing the development and continuous enhancement of digital and self-paced learning solutions that support Performance Management capability building.

Leadership and Stakeholder Management

The Senior Manager will build trusted relationships with various stakeholders to support effective delivery of Performance Management and Promotion initiatives. This includes:

• Building relationships with HRBPs, business leaders, and relevant HR functions such as Talent Management, Organization Development, and Total Rewards.
• Providing expert guidance on Performance Management and Promotion frameworks, processes, and governance requirements.
• Driving cross-functional alignment and issue resolution across various HR and business stakeholders.
• Promoting knowledge sharing and the adoption of leading practices to strengthen the effectiveness and impact of Performance Management and Promotions.
• Providing leadership, coaching, and day-to-day guidance to team members, fostering capability development and accountability.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in performance management and promotion practices. The role requires a professional with a strong understanding of strategic HR principles and the ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations.