Vice President – Digital Workspace

Own the technology experience of every Aldar employee: the services, devices and workplace technology through which the Group's people work every day, covering service desk, end-user support, end-user software and devices, audio-visual and meeting room technology, and technology support for corporate events.

 

Shift end-user services from reactive support to a managed employee experience, measured by how well people can work, not only by ticket statistics, delivered through internal teams and outsourced managed services across all Group locations.

 

The role is for a UAE National

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Define and evolve the digital workspace strategy: devices, end-user software, collaboration tools and workplace technology.

 

Establish employee experience measures (experience-level agreements) alongside traditional service levels, and manage to them.

 

Standardize the workspace estate across the Group and subsidiaries, reducing variants and local exceptions.

Own the Group service desk and end-user support services, delivered through outsourced IT Managed Services.

 

Ensure responsive, high-quality support across all entities and locations, including on-site presence where required.

 

Drive first-contact resolution, self-service adoption and support automation.

Own audio-visual and meeting room technology across the Group's offices, ensuring reliable, consistent collaboration experiences.

 

Provide technology support for corporate events with professional execution.

 

Plan workplace technology for new offices and refurbishments with Corporate Services.

Own the end-user device and software lifecycle: standards, provisioning, refresh, patching coordination and retirement.

 

Ensure secure configuration of the workspace estate in partnership with Information Security.

 

Manage software licensing hygiene for end-user tools with Technology Governance.

Manage managed services performance against service-level and experience-level agreements, with structured improvement plans.

 

Use experience and usage data to prioritize improvements that employees actually feel.

 

Contribute workspace service definitions to the Group's service catalogue and chargeback model.

 

Build and lead the Digital Workspace team and direct outsourced delivery partners.

 

Develop service management capability and support Emiratization objectives.

 

 

Service desk and workplace services delivered through outsourced managed services

 

Device and end-user software lifecycle management at scale

 

Experience-level measurement introduction is an advantage

 

Employee-experience obsessed; sees the workspace through the user's eyes, not the ticket queue

 

Strong vendor manager; gets performance from managed services without micromanaging them

 

Visible and service-minded leader; workspace issues are personal, immediate and universal

 

Disciplined on standards while pragmatic about executive and event-critical needs

 

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required

 

Master's degree is preferable