HR & Administration Director - F&B

Job description / Role

Our client, a leading UAE conglomerate is seeking an HR & Administration Director for their F&B subsidary. Previous experience in the F&B industry is mandatory.

Description of Position:
- Reporting directly to the CEO, the HR/Admin Director will be responsible for overseeing the full range of lifecycle tasks including but not limited to, hiring and retaining staff, orientation for new employees, contracts for senior overseas staff, compensation, performance reviews, and benefits administration, employee relations and Supervise Office Administrator.
- This director will also be part of the senior management team and will have the opportunity to bring an HR perspective to key strategic issues the organization is considering.

Key Accountabilities:

Human Resources:
- Manages global HR issues related to organizational operations.
- Supervise HR Team at HQ with field oversight
- Develop and monitor annual departmental budget, goals and objectives and annual operational/work plan for both HR and Administration teams
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of HR related transactions
- Plans, implements, and manages the human resources function for FQ, including recruiting, employee relations, regulatory compliance domestic & global compensation, benefits, staff development, and employee communications
- Responsible for staffing, employee education and training, management development, compensation and benefits, employment contracts
- Serve as a resource for managers; coach and mentor senior managers to effectively use the full range of HR tools such as the performance process.
- Investigates employee relations issues such as disciplinary, grievances, equity issues
- Maintain a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits program to support FQ ability to attract and retain high quality and well qualified employees

Administration:
- Oversees administrative office staff in maintaining files and centralize databases
- Supervise legal and insurance relationship for the organization.
- Manage office facilities administration
- Serves as the go-to for office inquiries and conflicts
- Tracks office supply inventory and approves supply orders
- Assists in the preparation of department budgets and expenses
- Maintenance of personnel files and Personnel Action Forms
- Develop, manage and implement personnel policies; develop a Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
- Communicate and ensure compliance and consistency with office practices and policies and compliance with all employment related laws
- Effectively interface with all levels of the organization to coordinate and oversee all of the people-related and office management activities
- Make certain that all administrative systems and processes are highly reliable, finely tuned and well delivered with an aim toward pro-action rather than reaction
- Research and recommend relevant insurance products and Maintain relevant insurance files.
- Negotiate related contracts, manage relevant vendor relationships, liaison with building management and oversee office operations
- Serve as administrative team leader, coach and advocate for administrative staff

Requirements

- Bachelor Degree and a minimum of eight years related experience
- Strong working knowledge of and experience in international and local national HR including labor law and local regulations
- Broad knowledge and experience in employment law, compensation, benefits administration, organizational planning and development, employee relations, safety, training and development and office administration.

Training:
- Must have basic computer skills in Microsoft Office
- PHR (Professional in Human Resources) and SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

Non specialist knowledge:
- Must be accurate and efficient, high energy, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities

Specialist knowledge:
- Evidence of the practice of a high level of confidentiality and excellent organization skills.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully participate on senior management teams that provide leadership and strategic direction
- Excellent analytical skills and good reasoning abilities and sound judgment

Planning & Organizing:
- Excellent skills in managing deadlines and priorities.
- Excellent planning and management skills, (work planning and resources).
- Strategic planning capability.

Leadership & Management:
- In depth business management ability.
- In depth understanding of people management processes and staff development skills.
- Excellent leadership and delegation skills

Communication:
- Communicates effectively at the highest levels internally and externally.
- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills.
- Excellent networking skills internally and externally.
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Superior interpersonal and coaching skills including patience and ability to work well with staff at all levels

Problem Solving & Analysis:
- Excellent problem solving and innovation capability.
- In depth understanding of business forecasting.

Key Challenge:
- Create a pro-active and strategic HR & Admin contributing to business objectives by delivering value for money, by analyzing risks in the HR & Admin area and implanting effective HR & Admin management practices.

About the Company

AXIZ Consulting is based in the Dubai International Finance Centre and offers a bespoke, highly consultative recruitment service to local and international organisations across the GCC in both professional services and primary industries. Its founding two members come from a blend of executive search and contingent recruitment and they have taken some of the best practices of executive search and applied this to contingent recruitment in order to produce a service which offers maximum value to clients.

In order for us to build a successful company, we identified a core aim: to offer our clients a service that surpasses that of our competition. In order to do this, we have put into place both internal and external processes that ensure clients receive a consistent and professional service which gets the right results, in the right way.