HR Manager for a Professional Services Multinational

RecruitMe FZE

Dubai, UAE

Ref: QP103-186

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

• Manage HR programmes and activities across the life cycle of all employees.
• Implement global HR programmes, and design additional local programmes as necessary.
• Provide coaching and advice to the both consulting and support staff management on HR programme initiatives and how to manage employee related issues within their teams. Work collaboratively with Programme Managers, Support Staff Managers, Partners and leaders across the offices on various initiatives including performance and promotion management, communication, morale, and retention efforts.
• Take leadership role in minimizing employment law risk. Keep abreast of changing employment law, re-drafting and implementing policies, and advising management accordingly. Act as one of the individuals to whom employees can raise related concerns.
• Act as main point of contact for all employee relations issues. Provide counselling, guidance and coaching for employees, helping them handle difficulties and diffusing situations.
• Manage the HR Department to high standards. Keep HR systems and activities under constant review to ensure high levels of customer service, efficiency and accuracy. Manage and develop HR team members.
• Develop and manage departmental budget ensuring investment is made aligned to the business needs
• Awareness of local budgets across functions to be able to advise and influence decisions
• Manage the performance management process for all staff ensuring legal compliance, aligning with staffing on people issues, connecting individuals who exit the business
• Manage employee exits ensuring legal compliance, exit interviews and any transitions
• Manage the annual benchmarking process for all staff. Review and implement compensation principles all CSS and consulting based on business need
• Participate in and lead as needed cross-region and global projects/initiatives
• Contributes actively in making the company a great place to work, and where/when possible, participates in specific office related projects
• Support HR strategy in line with business needs

This role will suit someone who has worked as an HR Manager in a professional services environment.

You will need to demonstrate the following characteristics:
• Proven experience in working with staff (performance and morale management, delivering of difficult messages to employees, etc.) and experience in advisory roles to management on issues such as performance, employee relations, organization, morale, legal, etc.
• Creative problem solver with sound business judgment, who manages processes to completion/drives to closure
• Comfortable with high standards and lean environment, and with numbers
• Fair, consistent, approachable, firm when necessary, reserves judgment, discrete and detail oriented (“eye for detail”)
• Balance energy/enthusiasm and calm/maturity
• Friendly, approachable and professional
• Clear and logical thinker
• Comfortable with numbers
• Able to deal with highly confidential information
• Proactive, confident and motivated
• Possessing excellent influencing skills and client relationship management skills
• Possessing strong customer orientation and interpersonal skills; effective team player
• Presentable, discrete and diplomatic

Requirements

• +8 years of all round HR experience, including all verticals
• Broad HR skill-set, with a focus on employment law and employee relations
• Demonstrated success in managing complex employee issues
• History of advising leadership and staff
• Experience supervising others
• International HR experience across the globe is desired
• Background in a professional services environment would be an advantage
• Educated to degree level with preferably CIPD qualification

About the Company

RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

What we do:

Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved.

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HR Manager salaries in UAE

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AED 18,000

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