HR Business Partner

Job description / Role

Overview of the role

To act as a trusted advisor to management on all human capital matters to ensure a keen understanding of the business so as to implement HR strategies and practices that support robust business growth and reinforce a culture of performance focus, meritocracy and diversity and comply with Group HR policy.

What you will do

• In liaison with Senior HRBP, translate the business strategy into annual action plans resulting in making improvements that are crucial to bring the company into a competitive edge. Create and support a continuous improvement environment in HR.
• Ensure new employees are properly inducted into the business and given support to become productive as quickly as possible.
• Facilitate talent reviews and implement succession plans and retention strategies for key talents. Develop and execute a learning and development plan that equips individuals with necessary skills.
• Coach managers and formulate and implement performance management plans to improve performance or assist with exit from the organization.
• Play a key role in communicating organizational messages and monitoring feedback per functional area.
• Support implementing the HR strategy by identifying training and development initiatives required per functional area and liaise with Learning and Development Manager to ensure appropriate initiatives are delivered.
• Ensure development and training needs of key and high potential staff are identified and delivered.
• Manage employee relations issues within the business units. Support line managers in creating a culture of employee engagement based upon the Group values. Always reinforce a culture of performance-focus and diversity.
• Act as an advisor to line managers in order to educate them and minimize risk. Ensure compliance with local law and Group policy throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Communicate and implement changes to HR policies and procedures. Ensure disciplinary procedure is properly applied before any employee is exited from the business.
• Act as a trusted business partner and coach managers. Consult and support line managers across the group and ensure their buy-in to all initiatives.
• Focus on measuring employee engagement and taking necessary actions based on output results.
• Act as change agent and facilitate transition.
• Play an active role in assessing manpower planning requirements, prepare and review manpower planning budgets and forecast. Ensure annual manpower budgeting exercise is conducted accurately and efficiently.
• Assess and analyse the business need prior to advertisement stage by gathering information about the nature of the job; the contents, the purpose, the efficiencies within the concerned department, the output required and how the role would fit into the overall objective of the organization.
• Support line managers in the design of the job profile, technical assessment and interview questionnaire.
• Conduct competency-based panel interviews with line managers.
• Ensure compliance to HR policy is maintained, review and strengthen business internal controls and procedures, ensure compliance of delegation of authority and provide leadership on process and governance.
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and other requirements. Ensure that localization focus is maintained and diversification goals are reinforced and achieved.

Required skills to be successful

• Competitive and results focus
• Leadership and development
• Strong interpersonal skills and problem solving
• Cultural awareness and team working skills

What equips you for the role

• Human Resource, Psychology or Business Management degree
• Five years of previous work experience as a HR Generalist or HR Business Partnering in a large multinational organization
• CIPD qualification is desirable

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.

Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.

Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

About Al-Futtaim Malls

Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers.

Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million square feet of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco.

Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Malls’ deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners.

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.

The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, energy management, technology infrastructure and digital transformation.

The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.

These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.

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.