Job description

The Performance and Reward Manager at Emirates NBD in the United Arab Emirates implements and manages Performance and Reward policies, programs, and practices across the relevant Emirates NBD Group entity and/or business units, acting as a subject matter expert across Performance Management, Fixed and Variable Pay, Incentive Schemes, Job Reviews, and Benchmarking. The role develops recommendations to support business units’ needs in hiring, retaining, and engaging employees, and serves as the first point of contact for HR and business stakeholders on generic Performance Management and Reward matters. Responsibilities include supporting implementation and management of compensation structures (Fixed Pay, Variable Pay, Incentive Schemes, Job Reviews, Benchmarking) aligned with organizational goals and objectives; assessing the external landscape and engaging with industry peers to understand competitor, business, and regulatory trends that inform a short- and long-term roadmap of compensation priorities for relevant Business Units; participating in ad-hoc projects involving wider HR and business stakeholders; overseeing performance management, compensation, and benefit processes for relevant Business Units; advising stakeholders on performance management, compensation, and benefit matters; managing the Performance and Reward year-end process for relevant Business Units; and providing direction and policy interpretation to management staff regarding compensation philosophy and practices to ensure consistent policy application. The role lists core competencies including stakeholder management and communication, analytical data and computational thinking, strong presentation skills, advanced MS Excel skills, strong technical performance and reward knowledge, working/managing employee data, and local remuneration regulatory knowledge, alongside other listed behavioral competencies. The employer context is Emirates NBD as a financial services brand in the MENAT region, offering banking products and services across retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations, including Liv digital bank.