Director People Partnering, Grocery & Retail

As a Director of People Partnering - Grocery & Retail this role is about partnering closely with our stakeholders and supporting their organizational needs. This role has aspects to it that are operational and other parts that are creative - you never know what new initiatives you may be working on next quarter! 

Were really looking for someone that is flexible creative and resourceful there is so much to do and youll have the autonomy to make things happen. The role entails partnering with Chief Retail Officer and his leadership team whilst looking after the people strategy for the seven countries we operate in to drive quarterly initiatives and partnering with the People Team to support in aligning our stakeholders with People initiatives.

• Scope 

  • Youll be supporting the entire Grocery & Retail business in eight countries countries in their end to end experiences through your strong business acumen and data driven mindset. 

  • The countries youll be supporting are: UAE Kuwait Egypt Qatar Bahrain Oman Jordan. 

• Data Driven Mindset

  • In your role youre expected to monitor health metrics across the countries youre supporting through working closely with the Grocery & Retail Leadership Team and the People & Culture Market Leads.  

    • Country Health.  Monitoring Country-level health through tools like peakon and tableau and working closely with the Leadership Team to identify risk areas and propose solutions - evaluating mindset culture performance and environment as a whole in each market.

    • Environment Health 

      • Acquisition/Retention. Monitoring acquisition and retention metrics performing root cause analysis storytelling through data and co-creating solutions to solve retention in your area. 

      • Compensation Health. Monitoring country and market dynamics and impact on talent. When needed working with Market Leads and Rewards to build business cases for pay band and/or benefits redesign. 

    • Mindset/Culture. Working closely with the business leaders across markets to ensure that our leaders embody the values of the organization and it is embedded in their ways of working - hiring performance etc. 

• Experience 

  • Experience Optimization. Responsible for identifying gaps is experience and collaborating with stakeholders or People & Culture teams to bridge the gap. 

  • Change Management. Manages transformation needs by developing change management strategies with the stakeholders. Supporting once joining on the integration of talabat x Instashop in collaboration with management. Knows how to build a change both top down and bottom up and owns the change topics on the business area level. Is a leader influencing others in continuous improvement. Is mentoring other People Partners in change management practices. 

  • Identifying Talent Gaps. Understands the various business areas organizational design and business needs. Can foresee long-term talent shortages and works closely with leaders to identify critical hiring needs to design the hiring plan in alignment with business priorities and budget.

  • Growth & Development 

    • Talent Development. Working with Talent Development on Leadership Development Plan and Succession Planning for CRO-1s and their teams.

    • Coach/Mentor. A coach and mentor for CRO-1s through their deep understanding of stakeholder challenges

    • Performance Management. Working with stakeholders in designing MYR and EYR in alignment DH/talabat guidelines and stakeholder needs. 

• Business Acumen

  • Understand the Market Visions OKRs and collaborate with CRO and CRO-1s to design and drive People & Culture OKRs in alignment with the country objectives.

Qualifications :

• A bachelors degree in Human Resource Management or Business Administration. 

• At least 10 years of experience working in the People & Culture team with ideally 5 years in a leadership capacity managing teams. 

• Prior experience in mergers and acquisitions with demonstrated involvement in culture change HR transformation and change management initiatives.

• Strong partnership skills focused on enhancing employee experience addressing talent needs driving culture integration and conducting compensation benchmarking.

• Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities balancing business interests and the people agenda..

• Data-driven and analytical mindset.

• Hands-on approach with the ability to demonstrate a proactive hustler mentality.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time