HR Business Partner

Job Description:

You will play a pivotal role in driving workforce planning, performance management, and succession planning initiatives. You will work closely with business leaders to align HR strategies with organizational goals, ensuring that the workforce is equipped to meet current and future demands. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with the talent acquisition team to ensure seamless integration of recruitment strategies that attract and retain top talent.

How you ll make an impact

• Strategic Workforce Planning: Assessing and evaluating current headcounts in alignment with business needs and strategic objectives, collaborating with department leaders to identify gaps and forecast future staffing requirements, leading and managing organization restructuring initiatives when required to align with strategic business goals, ensuring accuracy of data within the planning tools, regularly auditing and updating information as needed and developing and tracking headcount reports.
• Recruitment and Talent Acquisition: Developing and implementing Saudization Strategy in partnership with the business leaders to achieve the required Saudization target in compliance with Saudi regulations, developing and implementing targeted recruitment and retention strategies to increase female representation across all levels of the organization.
• Creating Partnerships: With diverse talent pools, promoting inclusive hiring practices, and supporting career development programs for women and providing recruitment expertise or input to hiring managers or teams and advising them on recruitment and compensation proposals.
• Performance Management and Succession Planning: Overseeing the implementation of the complete global performance management cycle, ensuring alignment with company standards and timelines. This includes goal setting, midyear reviews, and annual appraisals.
• Providing expert coaching and guidance to managers on effective performance management practices, ensuring they have the tools and skills necessary to evaluate and enhance team performance, conducting thorough talent review sessions to assess employee performance and potential.
• Collaborating with leadership to identify high potential employees and create development plans to support their growth, ensuring robust succession planning is in place by identifying key roles and potential successors.
• Work with leadership to develop and implement strategies to prepare employees for future leadership positions and partnering with the Learning and Development team to execute training programs that enhance employee skills and competencies.
• Engagement and Culture: Developing and executing strategies to encourage high participation rates in employee engagement surveys, collaborating with department heads and managers to develop and implement action plans based on survey results. Ensure that these plans address key areas of concern and promote a positive work environment and working to adapt and implement global initiatives, such as diversity and inclusion programs, to fit local contexts and cultural nuances, ensuring they are effectively integrated into the local work environment.
• Compensation and Benefits: Overseeing the annual salary review process, ensuring competitive and equitable compensation practices, managing off-cycle salary adjustments when necessary to address market changes or individual performance and working on enhancing allowances and special incentives to ensure the organization remains competitive in attracting and retaining top talent.
• Living Hitachi Energy s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• A bachelor s degree in human resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or similar role in the manufacturing industry.
• Strong understanding of workforce planning, talent management, and performance management.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of local labor laws and regulations, with a focus on localization and Saudization requirements.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

Company Industry:

• Power Generation
• Power Distribution
• Energy
• Nuclear Energy

Department / Functional Area:

• HR
• Human Relations
• Industrial Relations

Keywords:

• HR Business Partner