People Business Partner

AlixPartners; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in Dubai seeks an experienced HR Business Partner to shape the local people strategy within a multinational environment. The role requires 8 years of HR experience, strong emotional intelligence, and knowledge of UAE labor laws. The successful candidate will manage stakeholder relationships and lead initiatives supporting retention and diversity objectives. Competitive benefits and hybrid working options are offered.

Benefits

Market-leading benefits

Flexible options to support employees' needs

Qualifications

• 8 years of HR experience in a Business Partner role.
• Experience in a multinational organization.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to navigate UAE and KSA labor laws.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership to shape the local people strategy.
• Provide data-led insights to improve employee retention.
• Advise leaders on organizational change and design.
• Manage performance and ensure alignment with firm values.

Skills

HR experience

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Emotional intelligence

Knowledge of UAE KSA labor law

Job description

What youll do

The PBP role involves collaborating with the leadership team to shape the local people strategy. The role works within a global matrix structure ensuring balance between the global local market and wider team demands. An integrated approach to the following people activities is essential to embed a culture and working practices that support our strategy - performance management talent management career development succession planning training coaching and mentoring headcount planning engagement reward and diversity & inclusion

• Primary point of contact for client services leaders and colleagues on people talent and organisational topics; recognised as a trusted subject matter expert by senior leadership
• Partner with Partners and Managing Directors (PMDs) to shape plan and execute the people agenda in support of local market strategy and the firms overarching strategy ensuring alignment between business priorities and people decisions
• Lead and influence change initiatives by advising leaders on effective organisational design ways of working and change management embedding a continuous improvement mindset across local markets
• Partner with business leadership to improve retention providing data-led insight challenge and advice and supporting the design and execution of actions that strengthen engagement performance and career progression
• Enable progress against diversity and inclusion objectives by partnering with leaders to translate firm-wide D&I strategy into local action providing expertise governance and challenge and contributing to EMEA and/or global D&I initiatives
• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders strengthening their people leadership capability and providing pragmatic advice and counsel across the full employee lifecycle
• Provide constructive challenge and stewardship on people-related decisions ensuring alignment with firm strategy values policies and risk appetite and acting as a critical thinking partner to the business
• Oversee and enable effective performance management partnering with leaders to ensure high-quality goal setting continuous feedback fair promotion decisions and timely performance interventions
• Advise on reward and pay decisions ensuring they align with performance outcomes and firm principles and working closely with global teams to apply firm-wide compensation frameworks and benchmarking insight in local contexts
• Contribute to and lead EMEA-wide PBP initiatives and projects sharing best practice driving consistency where appropriate and strengthening the overall PBP community.

This description is not designed to encompass a comprehensive listing of required activities duties or responsibilities.

What youll need

Overall the role holder will need to be a committed teamoriented individual with strong emotional intelligence and excellent communication skills. They should have a solid understanding of the local market with demonstrable experience operating effectively within it. The role requires someone who thrives in a reactive fastpaced environment is comfortable managing conflicting priorities and has the gravitas to influence and engage a diverse group of senior stakeholders.

• 8 years of HR experience confident in a Business Partner position
• Recent experience working within a multinational organisation
• Knowledge of UAE and KSA labour law (specifics on the DIFC employment law are advantageous)
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• You will hold valid residency for the UAE or be able to obtain such (administrative support will be provided by AlixPartners to obtain permits); ability to obtain work permit to travel and work across EU
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English Arabic is advantageous
• Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
• Must become familiar with and promote and abide by our Core Values as defined by the AlixPartnersCode of Conductand foster an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organisation

The firm offers market-leading benefits that provide flexible options to support our employees needs you can read more about the AlixPartners benefits here.

This advert will be removed once a suitable candidate has been identified.

AlixPartners is an equal opportunity employer.

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