HR Business Partner | Automotive | Abu Dhabi

Company: Al-Futtaim –

WebSite: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job Description:**Job Posting: HR Business Partner**

**Job Requisition ID: 173925**

Al-Futtaim Group, a diversified and progressive privately held regional business headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with origins dating back to the 1930s, is seeking a highly motivated and experienced HR Business Partner. Operating across automotive, financial services, real estate, retail, and healthcare sectors, the Group employs over 35,000 individuals across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, partnering with over 200 globally recognized brands. Al-Futtaim Group is committed to entrepreneurship and a relentless focus on customer satisfaction, enabling continuous growth and expansion while responding to the evolving needs of customers and upholding values of respect, excellence, collaboration, and integrity.

**Role Summary:**

The HR Business Partner will serve as a trusted advisor to management on all human capital matters. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of the business to effectively implement HR strategies and practices that drive robust business growth, reinforce a performance-focused culture, promote meritocracy and diversity, and ensure compliance with Group HR policies.

**Key Responsibilities:**

* Collaborate with the Senior HR Business Partner to translate business strategy into actionable annual plans, driving improvements that enhance the company’s competitive advantage.
* Foster a continuous improvement environment within the HR function.
* Ensure comprehensive onboarding and support for new employees to facilitate rapid integration and productivity.
* Facilitate talent reviews and implement succession plans and retention strategies for key talent.
* Develop and execute learning and development plans to equip employees with necessary skills.
* Coach managers and develop and implement performance management plans to improve performance or facilitate organizational exits.
* Contribute to organizational communication and monitor feedback within assigned functional areas.
* Support the implementation of HR strategy by identifying training and development needs, and collaborate with the Learning & Development Manager to ensure appropriate initiatives are delivered.
* Identify and address development and training needs for key and high-potential employees.
* Manage employee relations issues within assigned business units.
* Support line managers in cultivating a culture of employee engagement aligned with the Group values, reinforcing a focus on performance and diversity.
* Serve as an advisor to line managers, providing guidance to minimize risk and ensure compliance with local laws and Group policies throughout the employee lifecycle.
* Communicate and implement changes to HR policies and procedures.
* Ensure proper application of disciplinary procedures before any employee separation.
* Serve as a trusted business partner and coach to managers, consulting and supporting line managers across the Group and ensuring buy-in to all initiatives.
* Measure employee engagement and implement necessary actions based on output results.
* Act as a change agent and facilitate transitions.
* Actively participate in assessing manpower requirements, preparing and reviewing manpower budgets and forecasts, and ensuring accurate and efficient execution of the annual manpower budgeting exercise.
* Assess and analyze business needs prior to initiating recruitment, gathering detailed information about job requirements and organizational objectives.
* Support line managers in designing job profiles, technical assessments, and interview questionnaires.
* Conduct competency-based panel interviews with line managers.
* Ensure compliance with HR policies, strengthen internal controls and procedures, ensure compliance with Delegation of Authority (DOA), and provide leadership on process and governance.
* Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and other requirements.
* Maintain focus on localization efforts and reinforce and achieve diversification goals.

**Required Skills and Competencies:**

* Competitive and results-focused.
* Demonstrated leadership and development capabilities.
* Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
* Cultural awareness and ability to work effectively in a team.

**Qualifications and Experience:**

* Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Psychology, or Business Management.
* Minimum of five (5) years of experience as an HR Generalist or HR Business Partner in a large multinational organization.
* CIPD qualification is desirable.

**About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate:**

Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE), the real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, manages a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia (MENA). With over 40 years of experience, AFGRE develops and manages owned landbanks, unlocking economic potential and contributing to the future development of the region through high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational, and healthcare developments. AFGRE’s focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make their properties the best places to live and work and build additional products and services that create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience. AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

**About Al-Futtaim Malls:**

Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers. Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco. Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall’s deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners. For more information on Al-Futtaim Malls, please visit https://www.al-futtaimmalls.com/

**About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies:**

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services. These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.

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