About the role

We are looking for a hands-on HR consultant to support an upcoming project with a major energy-sector client in Saudi Arabia. The client is redesigning how its roles, competencies and careers are structured. You will join the delivery team and own defined work packages, from analysing existing documentation to producing client-ready deliverables.

Key responsibilities

Job architecture

• Design and refine job families, sub-families and the job catalogue.
• Map roles to the client’s grading structure and organisation design.

Job descriptions and role profiles

• Review existing HR documentation and turn it into structured, consistent job descriptions and role profiles.
• Apply a common template and quality standard across all roles.

Competency frameworks

• Build technical competency frameworks with defined proficiency levels.
• Map competencies to roles and job families.

Career frameworks

• Design career paths, progression criteria and career frameworks across job families.
• Define how employees move between levels and across job families.

Stakeholder engagement

• Prepare and facilitate HR and business workshops.
• Run stakeholder interviews to validate content and gather input.

Delivery ownership

• Own assigned work packages end to end and produce deliverables independently.
• Keep outputs on schedule and ready for client review and sign-off.

Essential experience and skills

• 5–8 years of relevant HR consulting experience.
• Strong experience in job architecture, job families and job catalogues.
• Hands-on experience developing job descriptions and role profiles.
• Experience with technical competency frameworks, competency mapping and proficiency levels.
• Experience designing career paths, progression criteria and career frameworks.
• Good understanding of organisation design and grading structures.
• Proven experience delivering HR projects for clients in Saudi Arabia.
• Able to analyse existing HR documentation independently and translate it into structured, client-ready outputs.
• Comfortable supporting and facilitating HR and business workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Execution-focused, able to take ownership of work packages and deliver independently.
• Strong professional English.
• Based in Saudi Arabia or available to work on-site in Riyadh.

Preferred

• Arabic speaker (strongly preferred).
• Saudi national.
• Consulting background, ideally with a Big Four or specialist HR or people consultancy.