6 Culture Manager jobs in Oman

Overview

As the Head of People & Culture, you will lead the property’s People & Culture function, ensuring its overall effectiveness and alignment with business objectives. Your role is both strategic and operational; shaping initiatives that attract, develop, and retain top talent while fostering a workplace culture that reflects the company’s values. By championing engagement, inclusion, and professional growth, you will drive organizational success through a motivated, high-performing workforce.

• Develop and implement People & Culture strategies aligned with overall business objectives.
• Lead workforce planning, recruitment, and talent acquisition to secure top talent.
• Oversee onboarding, learning, and development programmes that build capability and support career growth.
• Drive performance management processes to ensure accountability, recognition, and continuous improvement.
• Promote a positive workplace culture by addressing colleague concerns and fostering engagement.
• Administer compensation, rewards, and benefits programmes, ensuring fairness, competitiveness, and compliance.
• Establish, communicate, and uphold People & Culture policies and procedures that promote ethical and compliant practices.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to build a respectful and equitable workplace.
• Partner with property leadership to address organizational challenges and strengthen a high-performance culture.
• Ensure compliance with labour laws, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Oversee reporting, metrics, and analytics to provide insights for decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Lead the resolution of colleague relations matters with fairness, discretion, and confidentiality.
• Facilitate open communication between management and colleagues to support trust and transparency.
• Contribute to strategic business planning with People & Culture insights that enable growth and sustainability.
• Lead succession planning and organizational development initiatives to build future leadership pipelines.
• Operate in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, safeguarding colleague health and contributing to sustainability.
• Ensure adherence to all company health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures.

One of the leading Oil and Gas multinationals with operations across the world is now looking for an Omani National as HR Manager for their Oman operation.

1. General HR Development:
2. Strong background in employment, employee relations, benefits, wage and salary, employee training, HSE, and government regulations and policies as they impact HR.
3. Develops and assists in the implementation of human resource programs for all legal entities, focusing on host country labour law and legal issues.
4. Develops compensation programs and strategies to attract and retain top talent.
5. Creates coaching strategies, facilitates dialogues on specific concerns, and oversees conflict resolution related to organizational initiatives.
6. Develops company guidelines, policies, and procedures on local contracted employees’ issues.
7. Collaborates with senior management to enhance diversity and cross-cultural inclusion programs, establishing best practices and addressing barriers to staff retention and advancement.
8. Recommends best practices for information sharing between regions and countries.
9. Maintains metrics and prepares reports for senior management to evaluate initiatives and ROI.
10. Participates in developing country plans and programs, considering their impact on people.
11. Assesses the competitiveness of programs against industry standards.

Employee Relations:

• Focuses on increasing the proportional Nationalization of the company through training, succession planning, and professional development.

The Candidate:

• Must have at least 8 years of HR experience within the Oil, Gas, or EPC industry.
• Must have managed for the last 4-5 years with a proven track record of success in partnering with the business.
• This role is ONLY open to an OMANI NATIONAL.

About The Company:

Mackenzie Jones Middle East has extensive expertise in HR, Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Sales, Secretarial & Business Support, Management Consulting, and Engineering recruitment. Based in Dubai since 2006, we serve the GCC and Levant regions, providing personalized services tailored to individual needs. Our specialties include Human Resources, Finance & Accounting, Marketing, Sales, Secretarial & Business Support, Executive Search, Banking & Financial Services, Management Consulting, and Engineering.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Regional HR Manager for APAC to join our People team at Canonical.

With 1,200+ colleagues across 75 countries, we require a People function that thinks and acts globally. We're looking for a regional lead that will report into our Global Head of HR who can help build our company as we go through continued growth plans. It's an exciting time to join with the opportunity to help shape and create an HR function for the future. You will lead the APAC team of HR professionals to provide precise, compliant and scalable HR operations to the business, advise and execute on HR issues across the whole employee life-cycle, and partner with senior leadership in your region. You will have an analytical approach, a keen eye for detail and the ability to interpret data trends and themes.

The role entails the individual to:

• Lead and scale Canonical's regional HR team
• Deliver precise and compliant HR operations in a timely manner and with the highest degree of accuracy
• Interact closely with the broader People team to create tight-knit processes across all regions
• Be accountable for HR processes such as talent development, succession planning, performance assessments, onboarding, culture and engagement initiatives that drive high performing teams
• Work with senior managers across the business on performance management, organizational design, employee engagement, rewards- and workforce planning
• Own as well as coach and advise people managers on the full spectrum of employee relations issues, across multiple countries
• Partner with people managers to support the delivery of appropriate training and development programs
• Establish a trusted partnership with the business in your region
• Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Design new policies and deliver on business-critical HR related projects globally
• Present at Canonical events to articulate Canonical's HR practices
  
  

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business
• People management experience
• Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders
• A good balance between leading and executing, in this role you will need to be hands-on involved in the daily HR routines too
• Experience in working in a remote first organization
• Able to leverage data to make informed decisions
• Knowledge and practical implementation of HR practices and employment law across APAC
• Experience in handling and overseeing complex ER matters across multiple jurisdictions
• Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
• Self motivated, organized, accurate, confident, authentic, results-orientated, open-minded, enthusiastic and energetic
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes
• Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other)
• Facilitation skills
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Regional HR Manager for APAC to join our People team at Canonical.

With 1,200+ colleagues across 75 countries, we require a People function that thinks and acts globally. We're looking for a regional lead that will report into our Global Head of HR who can help build our company as we go through continued growth plans. It's an exciting time to join with the opportunity to help shape and create an HR function for the future. You will lead the APAC team of HR professionals to provide precise, compliant and scalable HR operations to the business, advise and execute on HR issues across the whole employee life-cycle, and partner with senior leadership in your region. You will have an analytical approach, a keen eye for detail and the ability to interpret data trends and themes.

The role entails the individual to:

• Lead and scale Canonical's regional HR team
• Deliver precise and compliant HR operations in a timely manner and with the highest degree of accuracy
• Interact closely with the broader People team to create tight-knit processes across all regions
• Be accountable for HR processes such as talent development, succession planning, performance assessments, onboarding, culture and engagement initiatives that drive high performing teams
• Work with senior managers across the business on performance management, organizational design, employee engagement, rewards- and workforce planning
• Own as well as coach and advise people managers on the full spectrum of employee relations issues, across multiple countries
• Partner with people managers to support the delivery of appropriate training and development programs
• Establish a trusted partnership with the business in your region
• Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Design new policies and deliver on business-critical HR related projects globally
• Present at Canonical events to articulate Canonical's HR practices
  
  

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business
• People management experience
• Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders
• A good balance between leading and executing, in this role you will need to be hands-on involved in the daily HR routines too
• Experience in working in a remote first organization
• Able to leverage data to make informed decisions
• Knowledge and practical implementation of HR practices and employment law across APAC
• Experience in handling and overseeing complex ER matters across multiple jurisdictions
• Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
• Self motivated, organized, accurate, confident, authentic, results-orientated, open-minded, enthusiastic and energetic
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes
• Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other)
• Facilitation skills
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

Overview

Purpose of the Role: The Assistant Manager – HR Shared Services is responsible for overseeing accommodation management, government relations, and employee relations within Oman. This role ensures smooth operations in these key HR service areas while also supporting the HR Manager in various HR projects and initiatives.

1. Accommodation Management
   • Oversee and manage employee accommodation, ensuring compliance with company policies and local regulations.
   • Coordinate with landlords, leasing agencies, and facility management teams for lease agreements, renewals, and maintenance.
   • Ensure cost-effective and quality housing solutions for employees, managing budgets and vendor negotiations.
   • Address employee concerns related to accommodation and take corrective actions when necessary.
   • Conduct regular audits and inspections of company-provided accommodations to ensure safety and hygiene standards.
2. Government Relations & Compliance
   • Handle all matters related to labor laws, immigration, visas, work permits, and residency renewals for employees in Oman.
   • Ensure timely processing of employment visas, renewals, and cancellations in coordination with relevant government authorities.
   • Build and maintain strong relationships with government agencies (Ministry of Labor, Immigration, Municipality, etc.) to ensure compliance with local regulations.
   • Stay updated on Omani labor laws and ensure company policies remain compliant with legal requirements.
   • Support in resolving any legal issues related to employment, work permits, or residency concerns.
3. Employee Relations & HR Support
   • Act as the first point of contact for employee queries and grievances related to HR services.
   • Ensure timely resolution of employee disputes, complaints, and workplace concerns, maintaining a positive work environment.
   • Support HR investigations, disciplinary actions, and conflict resolution in collaboration with the HR Manager.
   • Drive HR engagement initiatives, ensuring employees feel supported and valued.
4. HR Projects & Strategic Support
   • Support the HR Manager in executing HR projects, process improvements, and automation initiatives.
   • Participate in HR analytics and reporting, tracking key metrics for accommodation, government relations, and employee engagement.
   • Assist in the implementation of new HR policies and procedures, ensuring smooth adoption by employees.
   • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on HR transformation projects aimed at improving efficiency and employee experience.
5. Vendor & Stakeholder Management
   • Manage relationships with external vendors, PROs, legal consultants, and government entities for HR-related services.
   • Negotiate service contracts and ensure vendors meet service level agreements (SLAs).
   • Coordinate with internal stakeholders to align HR Shared Services functions with business needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Human Resources, or a related field
• 4–5 years of experience in HR Administration, preferably within the Food & Beverage industry
• Experience with Oracle HR systems is an advantage
• The position is open to Omani nationals only, in line with local employment regulations