Associate People Partner

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

Our Associate - People Partner will be responsible for the complete ownership of HR administrative tasks, handling non-critical employee relations and connecting closely with Group HR's competence center.

• The associate will handle all things around recruitment, onboarding, projects, and admin.
• They will work closely with the People Partner by acting as an additional point of contact with minor employee relations.
• Part of this role will also include event planning, managing and preparing events.
• Coordination with venues, calendar invites for a smooth process.
• Organizing town halls, gathering information, preparing presentations, and ensuring the flow is well structured.
• Work on recruitment and onboarding by supporting recruitment processes, creating induction schedules for new joiners, and launching requisitions.
• Working on data analytics for presentations, strategy, and budget tasks.

What you'll need to succeed

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• 3-6 years experience within HR or creative marketing.
• Experience within supporting data analytics is preferred.
• Fashion/luxury background is preferred.
• Great communication and relationship building skills.
• Independent, agile, proactive, and flexible.

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We invite all applicants to apply.

It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities, and perspectives to truly inspire, exhilarate, and delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.