Junior HR Business Partner

Job description / Role

Company Overview

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions: automotive, financial services, real estate, retail, and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration, and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

Overview of the role

The Junior HRBP position is responsible for extending strategic and operational HR support for Al Futtaim Contracting Division in Qatar. The HRBP collaborates closely with operations and employees to foster a high-performance culture, enhance capabilities, and ensure compliance with HR policies and procedures.

What you will do

• Align with operations and business heads to understand business goals and priorities and provide HR guidance to support business strategy.
• Play an active role in assessing manpower requirements, prepare and review manpower budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure annual manpower budgeting exercise is conducted accurately and efficiently in collaboration with Senior HRBP.
• Liaise with the hiring manager and talent acquisition partner for job briefing, explaining and clarifying the requirements of the role.
• Support the line manager in creating job requisitions on People Hub (SAP), reviewing job descriptions.
• Play an active role in the interview and selection of candidates, providing balanced and unbiased feedback to the interview panel.
• Ensure that offer letters are issued to candidates in alignment with the Qatar compensation structure and Al Futtaim SOPs.
• Ensure seamless onboarding experience for new employees, arranging induction plans and managing communication, keeping all stakeholders informed, and preparing joining announcements.
• Monitor the weekly onboarding tracker shared by People Services team to ensure that the data pertaining to Al Futtaim Contracting is accurate.
• Manage probation process, including booking probation meetings over the course of the first six months, ensuring goals are aligned with line managers.
• Ensure that employees across all levels of hierarchy are informed of relevant HR policies, benefits, and any changes thereof.
• Provide resolutions and answers to queries raised by employees.
• Ensure that talent management activities including talent review and identification of critical roles are managed as per internal process.
• Arrange the annual employee engagement and wellbeing calendar including all team building, annual conferences, sport, and wellbeing events for camp employees. Manage Eid and other key celebrations as directed in line with AFRE direction.
• Ensure that employee engagement surveys and growing together surveys are communicated and ensure all relevant population participation.
• Ensure optimum utilization of the reward and recognition platform through timely communication and ownership by line managers. Ensure nominations for both blue- and white-collar workforce.
• Liaise with business and provide the training need analysis for each division to the L&D partner.
• Ensure that generic training programs organized by Real Estate L&D team and Group HR are well represented with participation and nomination from AF Contracting, Qatar.
• Provide timely inputs to the Senior HRBP, Head of HR, Data Analytics team, and TR team for effecting salary increments and promotions.
• Ensure that all employee relations cases are dealt with confidentiality, speed, objectivity, and following principles of natural justice.
• Organize meetings, interviews, prepare statements and records, share with the Group ER, and close out as per guidance.
• Ensure that contracts pertaining to office, staff accommodation, food contract, laundry contract, etc. are active and renewed in a timely manner.
• Ensure that outsourced vendors’ contracts are renewed in a timely manner.
• Verify and share overtime and leave inputs for payroll with the People Services team after approvals from Operations Manager and Senior HRBP.

Required skills to be successful

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving ability, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Time management and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Mentoring and coaching skills, employee relations.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality while dealing with sensitive matters.

What equips you for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in administration or HR.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in HR function at a large-sized company, managed blue collar employees, with supervisory skills essential to perform the job effectively.
• Excellent knowledge in the use of the Microsoft suite such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.

Candidate experience

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Before you click “apply”: please read the job description carefully to ensure you can confidently demonstrate why this opportunity is right for you and take the time to put together a well-crafted and personalised CV to further boost your visibility. Our global talent acquisition team members are all assigned to specific businesses to ensure that we make the best matches between talent and opportunities. We not only consider the requisite compatibility of skills and behaviours, but also how candidates align with our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, and excellence.

As part of our candidate experience promise, we also want to make ourselves available to you throughout the application process. We make every effort to review and respond to every application.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.