Jobs in UAE: Senior People Partner at Chalhoub Group 2021

Chalhoub Group is offering a job opportunity as a Senior People Partner in United Arab Emirates for 2021. As an experienced Senior People Partner, you will be responsible for helping attract, develop and support an exceptional group of people. You will be working closely with the brand/functional management team to provide: operational HR support, strategic advice, guidance and best practice solutions. You will do so in line with Group HR policies and principles, whilst also creating bespoke initiatives to enhance the employee experience and support the achievement of business strategies and culture change.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Define, develop and implement people vision to support ambitious business strategy.
2. Review the brand/function’s operating model and workforce planning approaches to ensure optimal organizational structures are in place to support future focus, growth, scalability and employee satisfaction.
3. Work with the team to consider competitor and industry approaches and translate these insights into roadmaps that define the employee experience, reveal gaps and pain points, and identify key opportunities for business enhancements and innovation.
4. Provide guidance and recommendations on the most complex issues, supporting team in all related people areas including: recruitment, performance management, succession planning, retention, talent development, compensation and rewards, employee relations, and employee engagement.
5. Provide clear and inspirational leadership to motivate and develop the team to deliver high quality, customer‐centred services.
6. Be an active and effective member of the Leadership Team, ensuring the high visibility, focus and delivery of the People and Culture strategy.
7. Act as a change agent by looking for new ways to improve the employee experience and define brand/function employee value proposition.
8. Lead the development of initiatives in line with Localization Strategy.
9. Continually assess existing policies, procedures, and programs and put forward recommendations to improve efficiencies and employee satisfaction.
10. Lead the on-going design and execution of brand/function specific employee onboarding, training and development programs to improve the depth and breadth of the team’s skills set and to raise awareness around behavioural, technical and leadership competencies.
11. Work with the Group’s Talent Acquisition team to ensure internal and external recruiting strategies result in relevant, high calibre candidates being identified.
12. Work closely with Group HR to implement the annual performance management cycle and act as a change agent within the brand/function to support the introduction of new approaches and performance platform.
13. Continually review and monitor the effectiveness of employee commission schemes and put forward recommendations for change.
14. Identify HiPOs through employee profiling; educate teams around career paths and support all succession planning and talent development activities.
15. Encourage a “growth mindset” amongst team members by collaborating with Learning team to assess training needs so relevant and inspiring training and development programmes are available and monitor the brand/function’s training budget and individual’s learning consumption.
16. Use all available HR data to ensure HR analytics supports all reporting, action planning and decision making and put forward recommendation for change.
17. Act as a coach and mentor to people and provide advice and guidance to leadership team, using HR data analytics, external benchmarks and best practice approaches to support decision making.
18. As part of cultural transformation, provide advice and guidance to leaders and managers around how to act as role models to create a positive and inspiring team climate.
19. Champion both Group and brand/function specific Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, with a key focus on culture change, nationalisation and employee wellbeing.
20. Collaborate with the Group’s People Experience team to design employee engagement surveys, and be accountable for the necessary action planning and improvement goals.
21. Develop key performance indicators to help identify progress and improvements made on employee engagement and ensure continual improvement.
22. Ensure all escalated employees’ grievances are closed.

Qualifications:

1. Excellent knowledge of HR best practices and industry standards.
2. Proven experience of acting as change agent to bring about change.
3. Able to influence without authority and to be regarded as a credible trusted advisor to the business.
4. Employee centric with the ability to build trust and act as a coach and mentor for employees.
5. Self-aware, with the appropriate leadership skills to inspire, manage and develop high performing teams.
6. Comfortable with healthy challenge and able to operate at a strategic level.
7. Experience of working in a fast-pace, matrixed environments.
8. Commercially minded with the ability to manage budgets, and interpret complex data & analytics to support decision making.
9. Resilient and able to effectively balance multiple priorities in line with deadlines.
10. Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and project management skills.
11. Future focussed with the ability to use creative and inspiring approaches to enhance employee experience programs, concepts and techniques.
12. Developing and Managing Self-Awareness.

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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