Senior Associate - Rewards

Job description / Role

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What you'll be doing

The Senior Rewards Analyst is responsible for providing analysis reports on job evaluation activities, salary surveys and structures, compensation programs, and market trends. Additionally, you'll partner with key stakeholders, present data, insights and recommendations to enhance their rewards policies.

Key Responsibilities

1. Organizational:

- Follow all relevant Rewards policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner

2. Operational:

- Implement activities under minimal supervision
- Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure case/issue is closed efficiently and in timely a manner
- Collect and analyze data for the periodic audit of different countries and companies to ensure that all compensation practices are in compliance with group policy
- Conduct frequent audits on the organization's salary structure and benefits provision and provide recommendations to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness of the group's salary practices
- Analyze statistical data and reports and generate summaries to the CHRO
- Coordinate with Regional HR Managers to ensure data and information accuracy
- Develop appropriate tools to facilitate data storage and transfer (excel files)
- Participate in salary and benefits surveys for different countries and analyze the Group's alignment with market trends
- Participate in the development of the job evaluation scheme
- Conduct job evaluations to ensure that the difference in pay between those doing different jobs within the organization are fair and are perceived to be so
- Consolidate the Performance Appraisal financial results for Management
- Champion the coordination with other Specialists in the HR Team
- Participate in relevant projects and community activities as and when needed

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- A Master's degree in Analytics or a similar principle
- A Minimum of 5 years experience of which at least 2 years must be in rewards consulting
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Expertise in Rewards Function, preferably in the retail or fashion industry
- Proficiency in Data Visualization Tools - Power Bi
- Experience in Project Leadership
- Retail Industry Knowledge

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.