Sourcing, Training & Development Advisor

Job description / Role

Sourcing
• The main purpose of the role is to develop and implement suitable sourcing and recruitment strategies for Colas Middle East.
• To develop strategies to attract, develop and retain top talent. To lead and coordinate the end-to-end attraction, recruitment and development solution for graduate, student and other emerging talent populations across CME.

Training & Development
• To support the Regional HR Manager in the delivery of the CME training agenda.
• To lead and coordinate the talent development agenda.
• To lead and coordinate the vocational and occupational training, development and assessment agenda in CME.
• Build a centre of excellence that can act as a guide to businesses and that provides fit-for-purpose and world-class training solutions across CME businesses.

Key Accountabilities / Actions
• Attraction, recruitment and development.
• Audit current practice across the businesses; highlighting areas of strength and weakness. Benchmark internal activity against ‘best in class’ in the external market.
• Build and maintain learning contracts within the: emerging talent population, the vocational and occupational training framework.
• Build strategic partnerships and relationships with appropriate educational establishments / training bodies, including the development and implementation of mechanisms to raise the profile of Colas and the construction industry.
• Co-ordinate an end-to-end recruitment and development Trainee programme.
• Develop a consistent and attractive employer brand proposition for the ‘emerging talent’ market and shape a coherent attraction, recruitment and development process that provides a positive talent experience.
• Develop and facilitate the utilisation of best practice recruitment and selection tools and techniques including assessment and selection centres for the emerging talent population and development of centre best practice.
• Develop and manage a database of emerging talent to calibrate performance and track progress to assure the quality of attraction, selection and development solutions.
• Develop and manage commercial relationships with external suppliers providing value for money and ensuring that solutions are high quality, consistent and get results.
• Develop, implement and manage a leadership development programme in the emerging talent population.
• Ensure that e-learning is factored into the Emerging Talent agenda.
• Ensure that there is clarity of strategy and responsibility between ‘emerging talent’ and the wider talent population.
• Establish and measure performance against relevant KPI’s.
• Lead and direct the Emerging Talent agenda and provide a first class service throughout the business.
• Develop plan to ensure Omanisation Targets are met within agreed time frame.
• Provide a framework for the mentoring of the emerging talent population.
• Provide expertise on all aspects of attraction, selection, induction, development, placement, assessment and talent audit of the Emerging Talent (including graduate and student) population.
• Provide specialist training and expertise to the wider HR community and to operational managers in order that they may be fully involved in the recruitment and on-going development / management of emerging talent.
• Analysing and identifying the appropriate methodologies to deliver effective training across CME.
• Build a database of and partnerships with preferred suppliers.
• Coordinate the PCDR appraisal model and develop/facilitate a framework for the utilisation of PCDR’s as a performance development tool.
• Create pathways and processes to support networking and the sharing of best practice knowledge and expertise throughout CME.
• Design and develop training and development programmes based on both the Company\'s and the individual\'s needs.
• Design career development for all positions and identify and implement career development for each employee.
• Develop and facilitate policy, procedures and tools for succession planning and management to include secondments and project assignments.
• Devise a training and development strategy for CME.
• Establish and manage a training advisory support network throughout the business.
• Facilitate the delivery of an end-to-end recruitment and development solution for apprentice joiners and work with the business to ensure delivery of this.
• Identify core competencies of the workforce. Deploy competency mapping within the Company.
• Keep up to date with developments in training and having an understanding of e-learning techniques.
• Lead the analysis and auditing of training needs.
• Lead the vocational and occupational training, development and assessment agenda in CME, providing a first-class service to all.
• Manage relationships with functions across the business in the development, delivery and assessment of functionally specific programmes.
• Provide coaching and facilitation to business and functional teams as appropriate

Requirements

• Appropriate professional qualification.
• Graduate degree.
• Minimum 7-10 years’ experience in a corporate multinational environment.
• Experience of building relationships with external providers.
• Strong knowledge of training needs analysis techniques, driving a training agenda and working with external suppliers to deliver results.
• Problem solving skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Ability to work with operational teams to understand real training priorities.
• Ability to plan and deliver own workload with limited supervision.
• Ability to motivate to maximise best practice.
• In-depth knowledge of graduate & student level recruitment and development practices and experience of delivery in more than one environment.
• Ability to appeal to/connect with young talent and targeted educational establishments.
• Passion for learning, development and supporting others to achieve their potential.
• Ideally CIPD qualified.
• Ideally organisational psychology background.

About the Company

Colas Middle East is one of the largest and leading suppliers of aggregates and asphalt to the Middle East construction industry, in addition to asphalt laying and contracting services. As a specialized Asphalt contractor, we offer a unique combination of the most advanced technical expertise, local knowledge and financial stability.

Colas Middle East with eminent partners in the UAE, Oman and Qatar, has been in the region for the last 40 years. We produce on an average 8 million tonnes of Gabbro Aggregates and 1.6 million tonnes of Asphalt per annum.

Colas Middle East is operated and partially owned by Colas Group which is a French multinational civil engineering firm specialized in road construction. Colas Group operates in every aspect of construction and maintenance of road and other types of transport infrastructure as well as on projects involving urban development and recreational facilities.

Backed by a workforce of 60,000 people, Colas undertakes about 80,000 projects every year via a network of 800 construction units and 2000 material production sites in around fifty countries worldwide in five continents.