Job Description
Job Requisition ID: 167764
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.
By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day
Overview of the role: Responsible for aligning business and people strategies, ensuring HR processes support growth and efficiency. Collaborates with the Business Navigation Manager to manage budgets and drive effective people planning, focusing on strategic support and improving organizational productivity.
What you will do:
- Know the business, the strategy and business drivers, products, budgets, forecasts and employee issues. Understand their hopes, fears, likes and dislikes and know who the key influencers are.
- Work proactively, constantly adding measurable value and making tangible improvements, clarifying what the business and HR need and evaluating outcomes.
- Influence all stages of business strategy development and implementation, contributing to decision making.
- Act as a trusted business partner and coach to senior line management, encouraging managers to think strategically, consider the impact of changes on the organisation and how best to make use of people to achieve success.
- Consult and support line managers across the business units to focus on measuring the employee engagement of the business units and take actions necessary to improve it. Advice, coach and mentor management team on people related issues. Act as change agent and facilitate transition.
- Monitor & ensure departments compliance to the manpower budgets
- Monitor compliance to device and implement employee engagement action plan
- Work together with the recruitment team and advise the business needs; actively source using relevant recruitment tools and media attracting candidates with the correct skill set to support IKEA’s expanding business.
- Ensure the organisation has a committed “fit for the future” workforce to deliver its strategic ambition.
- Liaise with Group Employee services in order to ensure smooth on-boarding process of new co-worker is planned for, within the Regional Office; collaborate with line managers in order to arrange induction & 0n-the –job training plans for new co-workers.
- Provide detailed monthly analysis concerning Internal Promotions, Annual Exceptional Promotions and Exceptional Effort Award.
- Work closely with HRSS, HRIS and HR employee services on internal transfers of candidates or new budgeted positions within the company (i.e. new SAP numbers).
- Manage the Employee Engagement survey for the business, ensuring all impact plans have been submitted and implemented in the business
- Reward top performers with the tools and policies provided by Group HR
- Ensure annual manpower budgeting exercise is conducted accurately and efficiently.
- Ensure annual casual labour manpower budgeting exercise is conducted efficiently.
- Monitor spending (manpower costs, engagement costs, utilities, and all spending related to HR)
- Create, obtain approval for and manage HR department budget.
- Ensure HR team adherence to the business financial systems and processes.
- Ensure appropriate adherence to company mandated manpower budgeting process
- Ensure annual manpower budgeting exercise is conducted accurately and efficiently.
- Ensure annual casual labour manpower budgeting exercise is conducted efficiently.
- Monitor spending (manpower costs, engagement costs, utilities, and all spending related to HR)
- Create, obtain approval for and manage HR department budget.
- Ensure HR team adherence to the business financial systems and processes.
- Ensure appropriate adherence to company mandated manpower budgeting process
- Play a key role in communicating organizational messages and monitoring feedback within the business.
- Look at business unit productivity and take necessary actions to improve it.
- Ensure that the delivery of HR services and information to employees on all levels is accurate, efficient, timely and cost effective.
- Provide effective business cases for the resolution of identified issues to be presented to the Business Head / HR Director
- Support and facilitate the implementation of business structure reorganisation and consolidation to deliver efficiencies
- Conduct annual salary adjustment and bonus reviews across the business, ensuring alignment to the Brand
- Provide appropriate business/management information to the HR Regional Management based on trends and patterns and regular financial reporting of co-worker costs.
- Support the yearly budgeting process to optimize adherence to a manpower cost to an agreed level of budgeted costs.
- Ensure that poor performers are reviewed in a fair way and appropriate performance improvement plans are in place.
- Work with employee services to ensure adequate support for Housing and other group benefits.
What you will need:
- A minimum of 5 years of Human Resources experience, with general retail experience as a plus.
- Strong mediation and counselling skills.
- Strategic, analytical, and tactical abilities.
- In-depth knowledge of local labor laws and regulations concerning the labor market.
- Ability to acquire and analyze local market demographics, economic, and labor market conditions.
About Al-Futtaim Retail
Al-Futtaim Retail has established itself as one of the leaders in Retail across the Middle East, Africa & Asia over the past 30 years. We have developed partnerships with some of the biggest and most respected Brands in the world including IKEA, ACE and Toys R Us in the Middle East and the Inditex Group of Brands (Zara, Mango, Bershka and P&B) across Asia. We are also one of the largest Global partners of Marks and Spencer’s in both regions with over 75 stores offering both fashion & food options.
Most recently we have been responsible for bringing brands to the Middle East for the first time with the exciting launches of Watsons and B&Q and we aim to continue to be agile and adaptive to our markets with new launches and further development. For this to be possible we aim to recruit the best talent from all backgrounds who will continue to challenge and develop our diverse workforce which includes over 100 nationalities across 12 countries. Join us today and make a difference…
About Al-Futtaim IKEA
GROWING TOGETHER...
We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.
Al-Futtaim IKEA holds the franchise rights for IKEA in Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
