Senior Director HR Mena

Purpose:- To develop, lead and enable delivering a comprehensive people strategy that enables business growth, talent development and creating a high performance culture. The role holds a key responsibility in the region's enablement, through managing complexities and challenges, opportunities, and potential by being a key partner to the Senior Leadership Team.- Key Responsibilities:- Own and design, in partnership within the VP HR EM, the Strategic People Strategy for Adidas MENA and lead the execution.- Accountable for the execution of the People Strategy, HR Strategy and people experience across MENA by delivering meaningful moments that matter.- Drive Strategic Workforce Management and Organisational Design/Development initiatives in MENA for commercial and group functions.- Accountable for Actions that legally expose us/employee in the MENA cluster. Actions that put our employee safety and security at risks, actions that are detrimental to the Company, Brand/Employer Brand in the market/location/site.- Partner and build strong relationships with the MENA Leadership team.- Actively support business initiatives and business needs with effective people products/ services and measures that promote positive creative climate for our people.- Enable and support business teams across the location on key employee communications of all people topics, i.e. Town Halls, Employee Meetings, leadership movement and announcements, etc.- Ensure that all aspects of staffing, employee relations for all employees are delivered timely and in accordance with relevant labor and commercial legislation, in line with corporate guidelines.- Manage HR legal compliance, sustainability, legal entity, employee governing bodies topics for the market with legal, tax and the business.- Work closely with the Rewards team to input, shape, develop and promote overall compensation & benefit programs and ensure seamless and consistent implementation that is fit for purpose to the customer and aligned with the Global people strategy.- Work closely with the Talent team to input, shape, develop and promote overall Talent programs, learning and leadership products to ensure a seamless and consistent implementation that is fit for purpose to the customer and aligned with the Global people strategy.- Ensure smooth processes for recruitment and transfer activities in close cooperation with EM/ MENA Talent Acquisition. Lead the recruitment in partnership with the talent acquisition partner for the Senior Management team role of MENA.- Accountable to ensure the team takes responsibility for and executes all core annual people processes including people planning, annual salary rounds, promotions/salary adjustments, succession planning, talent identification, talent conferences, performance reviews, etc. for MENA are implemented with excellence and consistency. Evolve and utilize the global HR reporting in business decision-making about people and org evolution decisions.- Evolve and utilize the global HR reporting in business decision-making about people and org evolution decisions.- Define organizational structure, set objectives and manage workloads and results to achieve goals while adopting best practices and achieving continuous process improvement.- Drive and maintain people engagement of the team at every level through effective motivation, coaching, training and development of people in the team.- Key Relationships:- MENA SLT- EM HR SLT- Talent and Rewards Partner- Talent Acquisition Lead- Legal Counsel- Finance- Knowledge Skills and Abilities:- HR Capabilities: Employee relations, use of HR metrics, change delivery, organizational design delivery, maintain external perspective, anticipating people trends, strategic workforce planning- Business Capabilities: Commercial Awareness, business acumen, customer focus, aligning business & HR strategy, knowledge of the value chain and key processes to use and impact on the people outcome and strategy- Innovative and strategic thinking- A leader with excellent management skills- Articulate and clear in written and verbal communication- Confident, Creative and Collaborative and role models this within the team, coaching others around it across the team- Drives innovation and fosters the development of new ideas/approaches/methods- Drives change processes through an inspirational leadership style and excellent change management expertise- Ability to derive specific goals for area of responsibility from the overall vision/strategy, taking into account the relevant business KPI's- Ability to interact at the highest levels of the company- Requisite Education and Experience:- University degree focusing on Business Administration, Human Resources Management, or related field- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in a multinational company with experience in HR Management, Rewards, Talent or business function- International experience and mindset- Fluent in En