HR Manager, People Partnering UAE, South Africa & KSA

The Impact You'll Make

You will shape how people experience work at Danfoss across the UAE, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. By partnering closely with leaders, you help build strong organizations where people can perform, grow, and feel included. In this role, you influence culture, leadership capability, and organizational effectiveness in fast growing and diverse markets. Your work directly supports business performance while ensuring people practices are fair, compliant, and future ready. You join Danfoss at a moment of transformation, where your perspective and judgment help translate global people strategies into meaningful local impact.

What You'll Be Doing

• Partner with business leaders to translate business priorities into people actions that strengthen performance, engagement, and leadership capability.
• Drive core people processes such as performance management, employee relations, and workforce planning to support a healthy and productive organization.
• Enable talent growth and retention through succession planning, learning priorities, and close collaboration with Talent Acquisition and global HR teams.
• Ensure compliance and consistency by applying local labor laws and Danfoss policies across the UAE, KSA, and South Africa.
• Contribute to organizational change and expansion, including supporting legal entity setup and evolving people practices in the region.

What We're Looking For

• Solid experience in an HR business partner or people partner role, supporting multiple countries or stakeholders in a matrix organization.
• Strong knowledge of employment practices and labor legislation across the Middle East and South Africa.
• Proven ability to advise and coach leaders with confidence, clarity, and sound judgment.
• Experience handling employee relations topics with professionalism, discretion, and fairness.
• Fluency in English, with clear communication skills across cultures and seniority levels.

What You'll Get From Us

• We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
• You'll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well being matters to us.
• We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
• You'll receive benefits like annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they're worth asking about-we think they're pretty great.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.