People and Culture Director - Middle East

Job Purpose

Contribute to deploy the Human Resources Policy and adapt the strategy to her/his scope of responsibility. Oversee some key HR practices for the MCA operating group

Main Responsibilities

Manages HR processes within its scope:

• Annual salary review campaign: ensures compliance with budgets, consistency in the distribution of envelopes, insure internal equity and loyalty.
• Annual review /development interviews/Annual objectives: deploys the processes, supports managers in preparing for interviews, ensures the implementation of the process within the allotted deadlines,
• Training plan : Fix the guidelines, supports managers in constructing the training plan within the set deadlines.

Defines and implements career management and skills development:

• Ensures the permanent adequacy of existing skills with the short and medium term needs of Bureau Veritas
• Identifies mobility, development and training wishes and implements action plans
• Manages talent reviews, defines succession plans and career plans in conjunction with the Regional leaders.

Manages the recruitment strategy for its scope :

• Constructed with the Head of the region during the budget then follows the progress of the forecast hiring plans,
• Carries out a recruitment interview for complex/key positions (such as regional leaders, operational managers…) within its scope in conjunction with the talent acquisition Manager or the recruitment officers,
• Coordinates and monitors the on boarding process of new employees.

Deploys HR development programs :

• Manages the various projects carried out each year such as career paths, Inclusion, Talents, disability, commitment, Internal opinion survey, Mentoring, etc.
• Adapts, impacts and monitors HR projects and priorities.

Operational support :

• Advise operational managers on employee development management actions,
• Ensures the interface between shared services center and internal customers.

Provide support to operational managers :

• Advises all managers about development plan, organisation design, changes management
• Insure the connection between the different services within BV.

Ensures overall HR consistency within its scope: remuneration, positioning, classification, job description:

• Pilots the cross-management of these subjects for an adjusted and relevant comp&ben policy,
• Organizes and monitors developments to adapt this consistency.

Ensures compliance with social legislation and manages social relations within its scope:

• Handles questions related to labor law,
• Leads staff representative bodies,
• Monitors the evolution of working conditions in the company,
• Ensures the application of internal regulations and internal procedures,
• Prevention/anticipation and management of alert rights, RPS, ethical cases,
• Contributes to maintaining a stable social climate.

Ensures internal and external communication:

• Communicates the HR policy, guarantees its application through the leadership teams within its scope,
• Represents the employer brand and promotes it – is present on social networks.

Contributes to the exchange of information and know-how:

• Fuels actions to capitalize and share knowledge (Knowledge Management, Academy, etc.),
• Shares his HR operational experience in the implementation of National HR projects.

Educational Qualification

Master degree with specialization in Human Resources or Business management

Competencies 

• Positions itself as a true Business Partner, impacts with strong added value on its organization, its managers,
• Sense of service, customer oriented
• Adaptability/ability to support changes/transformations,
• Listening and teaching, coaching
• Priority management,
• Reactivity, anticipation