Director Talent & Resources

About the role

As Director Talent & Resources you own everything that enables our people to do their best work Human Resources Information Technology and the corporate resources that keep the airline running. Reporting to the Accountable Manager you will build the HR function stand up a lean and modern IT stack across IT Operations and IT Innovation and set up our offices benefits and workplace from the ground up.

What youll do

• Lead the Human Resources function recruitment contracts payroll compensation and benefits insurance and employee relations and build a high-performance culture.
• Own the IT function across IT Operations (workstations connectivity infrastructure) and IT Innovation (core systems data platform and cybersecurity) delivering a lean AI-native technology stack.
• Provide corporate resources and workplace services office set-up and location facilities staff travel staff benefits and workplace procurement.
• Drive our Omanisation and talent-development strategy workforce planning and the graduate / management-trainee pipeline.
• Establish the systems of record and the policies controls and data governance that keep us compliant secure and audit-ready.
• Own the departments strategy budget and senior hiring.

What youll bring

• Senior leadership experience across people and/or corporate-services functions ideally building HR IT or shared services in a fast-scaling or start-up environment.
• A proven track record of start-up delivery standing up functions at pace under time pressure and to tight deadlines ideally having stood up parts of an airline on short timelines.
• A proven track record owning a departments strategy budget and senior hiring and leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong HR knowledge recruitment contracts payroll compensation and benefits and the enabling systems behind them.
• A working grasp of IT operations and enterprise systems (HRM/ATS connectivity cybersecurity) sufficient to direct specialists and vendors.
• Experience setting up offices facilities travel and workplace procurement.
• Familiarity with Omani labour law and Omanisation / localisation requirements or the ability to get up to speed quickly.

What will set you apart

• Experience standing up the people systems and resources foundations of a new company from the start-up stage.
• Aviation or other regulated-industry experience and exposure to data-driven AI-native ways of working.