Senior HR Business Partner

Dubai, UAE

Posted
Ref: NP598-75

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our HR Business Partnership team is responsible for supporting and providing HR business partnership to various business leaders and teams across Emirates Group Services, Commercial and Operations. As a Senior HR Business Partner you will work closely with our with executive and senior business leaders to define, develop and execute organisational and people strategies that align structure, culture and talent with business priorities, through the development of strong business knowledge. You will be accountable for the end-to-end HR delivery for their business unit.

In this role, you will:

- Business and Strategy Alignment. Contribute to business strategy by defining an appropriate HR strategy, and partnering with leaders to identify, prioritise and build organisational capabilities, behaviours, structures and processes. Provide business insights and connections from internal networks, and ensure solutions are tailored to address business needs (e.g. structure vs cultural change required). Support change management as it relates to structures, teams and people processes through professional project management. Build measures to review the success of change initiatives to validate the business impact.
- Culture and Engagement. Develop and promote ongoing feedback mechanisms for employees to influence the continuous improvement of the employee experience. Work with the line to help them understand and seek employee opinions and to anticipate their needs and concerns. Review and benchmark effective channels of communication for the employee group, supporting leaders to improve communication with their people. Facilitate discussions to identify where the employee experience and our value proposition are not aligned and recommend solutions or programmes to promote change improvements. Provide relevant people metrics to support actions and measure effectiveness.
- Leadership Coaching. In conjunction with the relevant Centres of Excellence, equip leaders to facilitate coaching within their teams. Review key business performance targets and their related people implications. Develop ideas and influence the direction setting to align the department with corporate values related to people management.
- Talent Development. Define talent needs, and support leaders to forecast and plan their workforce and talent pipeline requirements in line with the function or business strategy. Assist leaders in providing employees with development opportunities that align with current and future business requirements. Partner with colleagues in HR departments (CoEs, L&D, NR&D etc.) to deliver tailored solutions for the customer.
- Performance Culture. Define and drive improvements in performance culture in line with corporate principles, and work with leaders to translate department strategic goals into meaningful outputs that contribute to business results. Coach and support management teams in their understanding and management of a high-performance culture for all employees.
- Strategic Projects. Lead key projects, reviews and initiatives to deliver change and improvements. Review and benchmark the internal and external environment, translating good practice into proposals that are aligned with HR and corporate goals. Contribute to functional and cross-functional initiatives as required e.g. digital transformation, share knowledge and expertise with peers. Take ownership as a Business Partner team, working together to make decisions in line with the direction provided by senior HR leaders. Acts as organisation ambassadors and HR thought leaders in the external market
- HR Talent Development. Utilise opportunities to develop and stretch the HR Advisors through supporting/leading projects and initiatives that meet their DPs. Mentor, coach and provide feedback to support their development and align with the future capability needs of HR.
- Attraction and Retention. Partner with HR colleagues and business leaders to adapt packages to meet changing needs. Drive business results through performance improvement and encourage and reward behaviour aligned with company leadership values. Participate in selection activities for senior roles, in collaboration with colleagues in Recruitment, to ensure the right fit for the department and also the potential for future needs of the company.
- End-to-end Accountability for HR Service. Provides strategic HR direction and performance reporting to the business unit leadership Management and committees. Creates value-adding interactions with HR department resources to meet business needs effectively engaging HR Shard Services, service delivery teams and Centres of Excellence. Measures and understands the success of HR policies and procedures in the business to ensure that concerned COE updates based on business needs and changes

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

- Degree or Honours in a relevant subject (HR, Business, Humanities)
- Post Graduate qualifications preferred.
- Professional accreditation preferred (CIPD, AHRI or equivalent)
- 10+ years' experience in an advisory or partnering role.
- Team Management experience
- Project Management experience
- Able to understand business needs and anticipate future problems/risk, develop simple and effective solutions.
- Connects internal problems with external knowledge and research, and leverages networks to provide innovative recommendations to improve business results.
- Strong collaboration focuses to ensure shared goals are realised.
- Ability to develop relationships with business leaders, act as a trusted advisor and coach, and influence decisions.
- Analytical, ability to collect and synthesise large quantities of data, tell the story and formulate recommendations based on data trends and insights.
- Adaptable, agile, open to change and able to drive business change whilst motivating and engaging teams.