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Job description / Role
Career Planning & Succession Manager - HR - Kuwait
Job Purpose:
Accountable for developing the internal talent mobility for the organization to ensure we have an effective talent bench strength to meet the current and future needs of the organization.
Accountabilities (but not limited to):
Building a strong long-term bench of talent for our most critical roles by identifying skill and capability gaps and opportunities. Providing strategic performance consulting on solving talent supply with skill building solutions
- Career planning services to map and develop the network of roles and experiences that can mobilize talent.
- Succession management to actively navigate the career pathways supporting the acceleration of talent, working with OD to design structures that facilitate growth and mobility.
- Plan, lead, monitor, and track multi-level talent reviews to develop strong bench of talent for most critical roles across divisions and functions.
- Drive thought leadership on best methods to develop capabilities.
- Lead on redesign of enterprise talent planning processes, including designing toolkits. Provide thought leadership on talent. planning, executive assessments, and succession. Review, debrief, and consult on assessments (e.g., 360s and Hogan Personality Assessment) for leaders.
- Providing employees with leadership, coaching, mentoring, training and performance management to ensure team effectiveness and productivity.
- Establishing staffing levels within the department, and ensuring all employees are appropriately selected, motivated, and retained.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree. CIPD qualified desired.
- Competent user of office software, confident understanding of talent systems.
- Collaboration, problem solving influencing and stakeholder management.
- 7 years with HR learning /talent development, minimum of 3 years in talent management. Experience of senior executive career planning and succession an advantage.
Competencies - Functional (job specific):
- Adaptability: Can respond flexibility to customer requests enabling the organisation to get the most from the development solutions available.
- Customer Orientation: Understands customer needs and can coach them to provide expert advice.
- Analytics and insights: Working with detailed information and numerical data to identify insights, alternative solutions and recommendation; presents data it in a way that is easily understood.
- Communication and influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to present and position new ideas, initiatives, and gain buy-in and support.
- Strategic thinking: Think strategically about talent and ask difficult questions to get to the right talent outcome.
- Interpersonal skills: Able to build effective relationships as a trusted partner.
Work context:
- High level design of career pathways and succession visualisation: Development of solutions for career and succession - looking at the individual, team, and organizational context.
- Stakeholder engagement and communication: Works as a trusted partner with senior leaders, HRBPs and T&D COE.
- Managing talent reviews and succession planning workshops: Facilitates key practices aimed at top 700 with focus on Band B and C.
- Team leadership and capability building: Leads direct team of career planning specialists, accountable for the upskilling of the team.
- Active member of the Alshaya Learning Community: Passionate advocate and role model for career development within the wider learning community - active sponsor for developing other, recognised T&D champion.
- Vendor and budget management: Responsible for the budget management and vendor management related to career planning and succession visualisation solutions.
About the Company
As a leading international franchise operator, with nearly 90 of the world’s most recognised brands in its portfolio, Alshaya Group brings great shopping, dining, leisure and hospitality experiences to millions of customers across the Middle East & North Africa, Russia, Turkey, Europe and beyond.
Alshaya Group is a dynamic multinational business and family owned enterprise with a consistent record of growth and innovation. For 35 years, Alshaya has been a pioneering force in brand franchising, using its exceptional knowledge and experience to expand at pace.
Our portfolio of well-loved international brands includes Starbucks, H&M, Mothercare, Debenhams, American Eagle Outfitters, P.F. Chang’s, The Cheesecake Factory, The Body Shop, M.A.C, Victoria’s Secret, Boots, Pottery Barn, KidZania and, coming soon, Hampton by Hilton.
From one retail franchise store opened in Kuwait in 1983, Alshaya Group has consistently grown and diversified and today offers customers an unparalleled choice of brands across multiple sectors; Fashion & Footwear, Health & Beauty, Food, Optics, Pharmacy, Home Furnishings, Leisure & Entertainment, and Hotels. A diverse, skilled team of 53,000 people from 120 nationalities support more than 4,000 stores, cafes, restaurants and leisure destinations, a growing online business and a commitment to delivering great customer experiences.