Senior People Partner
Full time
at Chalhoub Group
in
Saudi Arabia
Posted on February 24, 2025
Job details
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, develop and implement our people vision to support our ambitious business strategy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provide guidance and recommendations on the most complex issues, supporting our team in all related people areas including recruitment, performance management, succession planning, retention, talent development, compensation and rewards, employee relations, and employee engagement.
- Provide clear and inspirational leadership to motivate and develop the team to deliver high quality, customer-centered services.
- Be an active and effective member of the Leadership Team, ensuring the high visibility, focus and delivery of the People and Culture strategy.
- Act as a change agent by looking for new ways to improve the employee experience and define our brand/function employee value proposition.
- Lead the development of initiatives in line with Localization Strategy.
- Continually assess our existing policies, procedures, and programs and put forward recommendations to improve efficiencies and employee satisfaction.
- 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 behavioral, technical and leadership competencies.
- Work with the Group's Talent Acquisition team to ensure internal and external recruiting strategies result in relevant, high caliber candidates being identified.
- 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.
- Continually review and monitor the effectiveness of employee commission schemes and put forward recommendations for change.
- Educate teams around career paths and support all succession planning and talent development activities.
- Encourage a growth mindset amongst team members by collaborating with our Learning team to assess training needs so relevant and inspiring training and development programs are available and monitor the brand/function's training budget and individual's learning consumption.
- Use all available HR data to ensure HR analytics supports all reporting, action planning and decision making and put forward recommendations for change.
- Act as a coach and mentor to our people and provide advice and guidance to our leadership team, using HR data analytics, external benchmarks and best practice approaches to support decision making.
- 7+ years of HR experience.
- Adept with performance management and investigations.
- Good in Talent profiling.
- Skilled in setting people strategies.
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