People Partner

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles.

What you’ll be doing

The People Partner will be working closely with brand/functional management to provide operational support, strategic advice and guidance while ensuring best practices are being integrated across all people related activities. He/she will fuel partnerships with their population in close collaboration with Group HR function to facilitate the delivery of value-added services to management and talent that reflect the business values and objectives. Your role will also include creating continuous improvement measures to enhance the employee experience and support the achievement business strategic and culture change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, develop, and implement the people strategy in line with the business directions and priorities.
• Review, advise and help facilitating any changes to the organizational structure or to the ways of working to ensure future proofing the organisation.
• Drive talent management by leading on the performance management process, facilitating the teams’ development and career growth (with a focus on identified talents), addressing performance gaps as well as setting and actioning succession plans for leadership / key roles
• Drive the annual manpower planning, budgeting, and salary review cycles in partnership with each of the business functions
• Provide guidance and recommendations on complex people-related issues, working to improve relationships while building morale and minimizing impact on business and retention risks
• Develop and deploy engagement initiatives across both frontline and back-office teams to ensure optimal people experience and build the desired culture.
• Champion any group-wide or division specific change initiatives; identifying and mitigating risks, while ensuring the smoothest possible transition with least impact on business continuity
• Work closely with the group talent acquisition team to ensure internal and external recruiting strategies result in fit for future, best in class talent to suit the business DNA.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or human resources or a related field. MBA or equivalent qualifications are preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a generalist / 360 HR or HRBP role in the GCC region
• Business / retail acumen
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to balance strategic mindset and operational deep dive

What we can offer you  

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality.  We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.  

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.  

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.