Lead Job Evaluation & Job Architecture📣 Job Ad
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | On-site | |
| Location | Riyadh |
About the Role
Acwa is seeking an experienced Lead – Job Evaluation & Job Architecture to join its team in Riyadh, KSA. This full-time position is responsible for designing, governing, and enhancing the organization’s enterprise Job Evaluation and Job Architecture framework. The role serves as a center of excellence, ensuring consistent role evaluation, structuring, and strategic alignment across the organization.
Role Context and Objectives
This strategic position will govern the Korn Ferry Hay job evaluation methodology and oversee enterprise job architecture frameworks. It provides advanced insights into organizational structure and workforce design, supporting executive decision-making, workforce planning, and organizational transformation across corporate functions, geographies, project companies, and operational assets. The role requires a deep understanding of organizational design principles and their application to workforce structure and talent management.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and lead the Job Evaluation Committee (JEC) for role evaluation and grade assignment approvals.
- Define governance policies for job evaluation requests, role creation, re-evaluation triggers, and promotion approvals.
- Ensure consistent application of the Korn Ferry Hay methodology across all entities.
- Act as the internal authority on job evaluation principles, maintaining integrity and independence of outcomes.
- Design and maintain the organization’s job architecture framework, including job families, sub-families, and levels aligned to KF Hay grades.
- Develop standardized job profiles detailing scope, accountabilities, decision authority, and capability expectations.
- Ensure accurate role placement within job families and levels, aligning architecture with organizational design, career pathways, and talent development.
- Conduct and oversee formal job evaluations using the Korn Ferry Hay methodology, assessing roles across Know-how, Problem Solving, and Accountability dimensions.
- Facilitate evaluation calibration sessions and ensure internal role parity, providing independent challenge where roles appear misaligned.
- Deliver advanced analytics on workforce structure, including grade compression/inflation, span of control, organizational layering, title inflation, and structural cost efficiency.
- Provide actionable recommendations for improving organizational design and structural effectiveness.
- Evaluate promotion requests to ensure grade progression reflects genuine increases in role scope and responsibility, distinguishing between role promotion and individual progression.
- Conduct promotion audits to identify grade drift or structural inconsistencies and provide reporting on promotion trends.
- Develop strategic reporting and dashboards on organizational grade distribution, span of control, workforce capability mix, and structural cost analysis.
- Lead enterprise initiatives such as cross-entity job leveling, integration of acquired organizations, organizational redesign, and the development of a global job catalogue.
- Train HR Business Partners and HR leaders on job evaluation and job architecture principles, and develop guidance materials.
- Maintain relationships with external methodology providers, such as Korn Ferry.
Qualifications and Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in job evaluation, rewards, or organizational design.
- Extensive experience applying the Korn Ferry Hay job evaluation methodology is mandatory.
- Proven experience in building and governing enterprise job architecture frameworks.
- Experience supporting organizational transformations, restructuring, and acquisitions.
- Experience working within complex global organizations.
- A degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Certification or formal experience in Korn Ferry Hay Job Evaluation is mandatory.
- CIPD or equivalent HR professional qualification is preferred.
Required Skills
- Proficiency in job evaluation methodologies.
- Expertise in job architecture design.
- Strong capabilities in organizational design analytics.
- Skilled in workforce structure analysis.
- Understanding of compensation alignment.
- Proficient in HR data analysis and interpretation.
Requirements
- Requires 5-10 Years experience
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