Senior Analyst - People Data

Job description / Role

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 Senior People Data Analyst is responsible for aggregating, maintaining and analyzing HR data. Our Analyst is also responsible for supporting the People Partners within the vertical throughout the full HR cycle.

- Support the entire HR cycle relating to performance management and employee engagement, including compensation and benefit reviews and all associated analytics and reporting requirements.
- Maintain the accuracy and integrity of a large volume of employee data for the business units, working closely with HR Competence Centers to validate structure, cost centers, reporting lines and employee movements.
- Support People Partners with all talent management activities, by preparing and consolidating data to present to Leadership and key stakeholders.
- Assist with the creation and reporting of HR manpower budgets, supported by scenario based data models and reports using all available Power BI dashboards.
- Act as a central point of liaison for the People Team as well as Finance community, bridging the gap between HR and Finance terminologies and systems.
- Ensure alignment with salary scales by mapping designations and grading between staff in the region.
- Conduct Monthly People Cost Analysis and Variance Analysis between budget and Actuals with detailed variance analysis report curated specially for Leadership and Finance community.
- Review employee data and align any discrepancies while adhering to a central benchmark.
- Ensure organization charts for business unit are kept up to date and aligned to new OD policies.
- Provide basic analysis and project management support on for ad hoc projects and initiatives.
- Proactively participate in all relevant projects and community activities as part of the wider People Team.
- Assist in reviewing and documenting policies based on People Partner request and in collaboration with the relevant competence center.
- Continually consider new ways of working and highlight any suggested process or efficiency enhancements which would benefit the team or the business.
- Act as a go to person for all "non-technical" support on existing HR platforms (DRIVE, PLANO , MyChalhoub, etc.) and escalate when needed.

- A Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Business Administration or any related principle
- 2 to 5 years' of experience in a data analyst role under HR division
- Strong Data Analysis and Visualization Skills
- Strong Stakeholder Management Skills

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.

Department PEOPLE & CULTURE

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.