Job closed
Job description / Role
Souq.com an Amazon subsidiary is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 35 million visits to its catalogue of more than 1.5 million unique products in 20 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products. Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.
With more than 3,000 employees, we operate with the scale and ambition of a big corporation, but we cultivate a strong entrepreneurial and nimble mindset to ensure we execute with speed and efficiency. We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, and a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Act as a conjunction between HR and Business Units to provide HR counseling in all related HR fields and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Align with legal department to minimize any legal risk that may prevent from achieving business objectives
• Manage and resolve employee relations complex issues that includes investigations and action recommendations
• Writing JD's and agreeing with the line managers on key measurable objectives
• Recruiting and Interviewing candidates for the vacancies with the briefs as shared by the line managers.
• Posting advertisements for new vacancies through different recruitment channels.
• Head hunting master for crucial key positions
• Ability to interview at least to manager level and to negotiate salaries after the line managers have agreed on the candidate.
• Conducting the Employee orientation and implement the regional on-boarding procedure
• Ability to conduct employee induction programs for new staff into the organization and (maintaining and capturing employee data, preparing induction packs).
• Responsible for rolling out strategic HR initiatives.
• Organizational Development and Space planning for growth.
• Appraisal System management full cycle with view on development goals
• Help in categorizing development goals into more broad development programs
• Fair Knowledge of Egypt labor laws.
• Employee Handbook/Guidelines and Policy development and documentation.
• Leave management process and compliance matrix for leaves.
• Data management and updating for the group of companies and HRMIS.
• Company employee communication matrix, (Newsletters, events, announcements and all relevant announcements).
• Manage all employee's benefits from Medical Insurance, Mobile lines and packages schemes control. As well, responsible for attracting new benefits based on employees feedback
• Full responsibility on employee engagement activities and measurements.
Requirements
• Seeking highly qualified candidates who are strategic thinkers.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills. MBA - HR qualified individuals.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in HR in diverse roles
• Very strong recruitment and head hunting skills.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
• Demonstrated intense customer focus.
• Ability to champion HR leadership and driving processes in the Department.
• Demonstrated highest level of integrity, intellectual honesty, and strong work ethic.
• Sharp, analytical, and thoughtful. Analyses through problems to come up with solutions.
• Innovative & Pro-active.
About the Company
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.