Human Resources Advisor, WSA

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Wärtsilä is an innovative technology company known for being a forerunner in the Marine and Energy markets. Our ultimate aim is to provide increased value to both our customers and society, with a focus on enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services. We are on a journey toward a decarbonised and sustainable future and seek future-oriented talent to join us.

Location - Jeddah

• Nurture and develop the HR team to continue to deliver excellent people-focused support.
• Drive the HR transformation from an employee relations perspective.
• Provide a country overview and alignment of local policies/processes/handbooks, balancing standardization with local variation and ensuring employee engagement and local compliance.
• Actively drive operational excellence in all activities to continuously improve performance.
• Advise/partner/coaching managers in all people matters.
• Stimulate the exchange of local wellbeing practices and ensure a minimum level of local facilities and benefits.
• Proactively support organizational changes with your team from legal, communication, and change management perspectives.
• Enforce local policies and processes that are fair, consistent, and aligned to the global framework when local differentiation is required due to legal or cultural reasons.
• Maintain effective working relationships between the company, employees, and stakeholders such as local authorities and legally mandated service providers.
• Communicate and drive change management initiatives within your team and the Wärtsilä organization.
• Drive collaboration with other HR functions to ensure smooth delivery of the overall HR offering.
• Support local management if not supported by a dedicated Business HR.

• Experience in process standardization and continuous service improvement.
• Extensive working knowledge of employment law issues and best practices in Saudi Arabia.
• Awareness of key employee relations requirements in a complex multi-business and multi-cultural environment.
• Caring, empathetic, and personable approach to dealing with others.
• "Can do" attitude when working under pressure.
• High attention to detail.
• Hands-on approach to dealing with issues, confident acting quickly when needed.
• Multi-tasker, comfortable juggling multiple projects and maintaining momentum.
• High integrity with the ability to build trustful, effective, and collaborative relationships across HR, businesses, and external stakeholders.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation, and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to advise team members on performance improvement to create high-performing teams.
• Proven track record of empowering, motivating, and creating a positive and inclusive team ethos.
• Team player who engages and collaborates with others to deliver results.
• Proactive, development-minded, and goal-focused attitude to work.
• Understanding of the Wärtsilä organization is an advantage.
• Strong track record of working in HRLO and leading teams.

• Bachelor's degree in HR/management/industrial engineering or related field.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet multiple deadlines.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to handle multi-country scopes with teams in different countries and cultures.
• 7-10 years of experience in HR operations, including payroll, HR software, recruiting and selection, training and development, succession planning, compensation and benefits, wellbeing and employee engagement.
• Knowledge of local country labor law and ability to align it with Wärtsilä policy.
• Countries responsible for:
  Saudi Arabia.
• Willingness to travel frequently within the region.

Last application date: 13/01/2026

At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on job-relevant merits and abilities.

Please note that according to Wärtsilä policy, voluntary consent for a security check may be required from candidates being considered for this position, depending on the applicable country.

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• Not Applicable

• Full-time

• Human Resources
• Industries:
  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

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