ABOUT ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL
Abdul Latif Jameel… a place to realize your potential. Through Respect, Continuous Improvement, Pioneering Spirit, and Empowerment, we are proud of our culture which sees ideas blossom, people thrive and success flourish. Abdul Latif Jameel is a global investor and 80-year-old network of internationally diversified businesses shaping the future of core sectors driving the global economy including, Mobility, Energy, Environmental Services, Financial Services and Health; together with land & real estate development, logistics, electronics retailing and media services. Established in 1945 Abdul Latif Jameel has a presence in more than 35 countries employing over 11,000 people from more than 85 nationalities.
About The Role
Lead the end-to-end design, configuration, deployment, and stabilization of SAP Success Factors Performance & Goals across a multi-country rollout. The consultant will own solution quality from global-template decisions through localized performance cycles, testing, launch, hypercare, and transition to support while remaining personally hands-on in the system. The initial priority is Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom, followed by Algeria, Spain, China, and Japan. The role will create a consistent global performance framework while accommodating approved local language, calendar, employee-relations, privacy, regulatory, and operating-model requirements.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIESOwn the Performance & Goals workstream across discovery, fit-to-standard and localization workshops, solution design, configuration, integration, testing, production launch, cutover, hypercare, and transition to support. Translate the global talent and performance philosophy into a scalable system template, clearly separating globally governed standards from justified country or business-unit variations. Facilitate workshops with HR, talent, business leaders, IT, HR operations, legal, privacy, security, employee-relations/works-council representatives, and local country teams. Provide design authority for performance cycles, goal-setting processes, review populations, rating governance, timelines, form routing, completion controls, and user experience. Personally configure and troubleshoot the module rather than delegating all system work to junior resources or technical administrators. Manage scope, design decisions, dependencies, risks, defects, readiness criteria, and stakeholder approvals for each rollout wave. Plan and control configuration promotion and release management across environments, including instance synchronization/Configuration Center where applicable, dependencies, regression impact, release notes, and rollback considerations. Produce high-quality functional and technical documentation, configuration workbooks, test evidence, operating procedures, support guides, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Geographic Scope
Phase 1 — priority: Italy, Poland, United Kingdom. Immediate design authority and hands-on configuration of the global framework and priority-country performance cycles. Recent delivery evidence in these countries is strongly preferred. Phase 2 — extension: Algeria, Spain, China, Japan. Extend the approved template with validated local language, calendar, privacy, works-council/employee-relations, regulatory, process, and reporting requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERINCE
Bachelor’s degree (or recognized equivalent) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related discipline is mandatory. Current SAP Success Factors Performance & Goals certification is mandatory and must be valid/verifiable at the time of submission and throughout the engagement, subject to SAP certification-maintenance requirements.8–12+ years of SAP HCM and/or SAP Success Factors experience, including at least 5 years of deep, recent Performance & Goals implementation experience. Minimum four full-cycle Performance & Goals implementations, including at least two delivered as the hands-on module lead or senior solution/configuration lead. Demonstrable multi-country production deployments; experience in Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom is strongly preferred, with additional experience in Algeria, Spain, China, and/or Japan advantageous. Strong understanding of performance-management operating models, goal governance, competency frameworks, rating methodology, effective-dated employee populations, security, privacy, reporting, and auditability. Proven ability to work directly with HR/talent leaders, IT, HR operations, legal, privacy, security, employee representatives, executives, local country teams, and third-party vendors. Professional English communication and documentation skills; relevant Italian, Polish, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese language capability is advantageous. Ability to travel to rollout locations and work across European and Asian time zones as agreed for the engagement.
Mandatory Delivery Skills Goal Management Goal-plan templates; fields; states; categories; weights; permissions; goal libraries; alignment/cascading; team/shared goals; imports and validations. Performance forms Form templates; sections; rating scales; calculations; route maps; permissions; signatures; due dates; launch, routing, completion, and administrator corrections. Competencies & content Competencies, behaviors, job-role/profile content, mapping to forms, localized instructions, labels, notifications, and text replacement. Continuous performance Activities, achievements, feedback, coaching/check-ins, one-to-one features, and integration with formal performance reviews where in scope. Security & reporting RBP; target populations; confidential data controls; completion, ratings, audit, reconciliation, and Story reports where enabled. Integration & data EC/HR master data; OData/APIs; Integration Center; CSV/SFTP; import/export; mappings; testing; error handling; monitoring and reconciliation. Delivery execution Workshops; global/local design; SIT/UAT; release management; production launch; cutover; hypercare; documentation and knowledge transfer.
Preferred Skills & Certifications Current SAP Success Factors Calibration certification and hands-on Calibration implementation experience. Certification and implementation experience in related modules such as Employee Central, Compensation, Succession & Development, or People Analytics. Experience designing enterprise-wide performance frameworks, competency models, talent processes, rating governance, and manager enablement for diverse employee populations. Experience integrating Performance & Goals outcomes with Compensation, Calibration, Succession, Learning, analytics, and external reporting platforms. Experience with multilingual/global deployments, works councils, accessibility, change management, training, and transition to managed services or internal support teams. Leads design workshops decisively, challenges ambiguous or conflicting requirements, and translates talent policy into sustainable, testable configuration. Balances global governance with legitimate country needs and resists unnecessary template proliferation or unsupported customization. Communicates clearly from configuration specialists to executives, making decisions, dependencies, risks, privacy impacts, and trade-offs visible early. Owns module quality, delivery commitments, documentation, and issue resolution while collaborating constructively across distributed teams. Coaches administrators and internal consultants, conducts design/configuration reviews, and transfers knowledge for sustainable support. Demonstrates discretion, cultural awareness, sound judgment, and attention to detail when handling sensitive performance and rating data.
WHY JOIN ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL
Set up business from ground. Be part of a globally respected, family-owned organization with 80 years of pioneering history Work across diverse cultures and geographies with real international exposure Join a people-first culture built on Respect, Continuous Improvement, Pioneering Spirit, and Empowerment
READY TO MAKE YOUR MARK?
If you are ready to grow, contribute, and realize your potential within one of the region's most respected organizations — we would love to hear from you. Apply now!