Jobs for Saudi Nationals: Talent Manager at Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group is offering a job opportunity as a Talent Manager to join the team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for 2021. The Talent Manager will act as the bridge between the Group Head of People, local People Partners (HRBPs) and L&D teams across KSA. The role’s key focus will be to implement and locally interpreting the Group’s Talent frameworks and enhance the performance management cycle, leadership development approaches, talent profiling, graduate programs, and succession planning in KSA. The role will be instrumental in creating strategic solutions that are fit for the Group’s KSA future vision and which support culture change.

Responsibilities:

1. Embed the Group’s revised Performance Management framework through the delivery of comprehensive training and briefing materials, instilling a continuous performance mindset.
2. Educate and support employees, Line Managers and People Partners with the adoption of the new Performance Management platform and revised processes.
3. Support culture change through the adoption of “servant leadership” philosophy by upskilling Line Managers to be effective coaches and mentors, work closely with Group L&D to articulate and communicate our leadership journey and industrialize a coaching mentality across the Group.
4. In collaboration with the People Partners, carry out the annual Talent Profiling exercise to identify employee readiness, talent gaps, retention risks and the creation of clear annual development plans.
5. Support with the roll out of the new SAP Success Factors Succession Planning module, ensuring key stakeholders are upskilled on how to access and use internal data and analysis to conduct the Succession Planning exercise.
6. Assist with the identification of internal Talent pipelines, working closely with the Talent Acquisition team and People Partners to increase internal mobility and progression between business units, brands and regions.
7. Raise awareness throughout KSA of how to effectively use Job Family outputs to support career conversations and identify future career paths to support with employee engagement, retention and the creation of clear Individual Development Plans.
8. Define and report on relevant performance metrics to monitor the success of the KSA Talent strategies.
9. Act as a bridge between People Partners and L&D to ensure the necessary learning and development is in place to meet current and future needs of the KSA employees.
10. Work with the People Partners to assess the effectiveness of all learning and development approaches for KSA employees and put forward strategies and solutions to support the acceleration of national and female talent pipelines.
11. Partner with Talent Acquisition, L&D and People Partners to enhance the Saudi Graduate Program to ensure we attract, develop, effectively performance manage and retain high performing local talent.

Qualifications:

1. Passionate about people development and regarded as a subject matter expert in Talent Management and or Talent Development.
2. Experienced coach and mentor with experience of influencing without authority.
3. Saudi National, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to engage and influence at the most senior level.
4. Ideally an accredited coach, with previous experience of facilitation and creating Learning content.
5. Sound appreciation of the impact digital transformation has on best practice approaches to developing and motivating employees
6. Able to project manage multiple campaigns, projects and processes at any one time, operating in a matrixed organization.
7. Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
8. Proficient in MS Office Tools, Power BI and Learning Management Systems
9. University Degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology or any related field/ CIPD and/or PMP certification plus significant experience in the HR or Talent Development, ideally in the region.

Benefits:

1. Enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility.
2. Career support that may span different teams, different job roles, different categories and even different countries. The group offers diverse career paths for those who show drive and passion as well as the desire to learn and grow.
3. Health care, life insurance, child education contribution, remote and flexible working as well as exclusive employee discounts.

About Chalhoub Group:

Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East and an expert in retail, distribution and communication. With a growing workforce of more than 12,000 people, and a network of over 650 retail stores, the Group's success is attributed to its highly skilled and dedicated teams.

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