Manager – Human Resources Business Partnerships Full Time

Job Purpose

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly Better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organisation by driving people strategies that empower our global workforce. Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your expertise in human resources will contribute to building a world-class employee experience while advancing your own career on a global stage.

As Manager, Human Resources Business Partnerships, you will partner with executive and senior business leaders to define, develop and execute organisational and people strategies that align structure, culture and talent with business priorities, through the development of strong business knowledge. Accountable for the end-to-end HR delivery for their business unit.

In this role you will:

• Contribute to business strategy by defining an appropriate HR strategy, partnering with leaders to identify, prioritise and build organisational capabilities, behaviours, structures and processes. Provide business insights and connections from internal networks, ensure solutions are tailored to address business needs. Support change management as it relates to structures, teams and people through professional project management. Build measures to review the success of change initiatives to validate the business impact.
• Develop and promote ongoing feedback mechanisms for employees to influence the continuous improvement of the employee experience. Work with the line to help them understand and seek employee opinions and to anticipate their needs and concerns.
• Review and benchmark effective channels of communication for the employee group, supporting leaders to improve communication with their people. Facilitate discussions to identify where the employee experience and our value proposition are not aligned and recommend solutions or programmes to promote change improvements. Provide relevant people metrics to support actions and measure effectiveness.
• In conjunction with the relevant Centres of Excellence, equip leaders to facilitate coaching within their teams. Review key business performance targets and their related people implications. Develop ideas and influence the direction setting to align department with corporate values related to people management.
• Define talent needs, and support leaders to forecast and plan their workforce and talent pipeline requirements in line with the function or business strategy. Assist leaders in providing employees with development opportunities that align with current and future business requirements. Partner with colleagues in HR CoE’s to deliver tailored solutions for the customer.
• Define and drive improvements in performance culture in line with corporate principles, work with leaders to translate department strategic goals into meaningful outputs that contribute to business results. Coach and support management teams in their understanding and management of a high performance culture for all employees.
• Lead key projects, reviews and initiatives to deliver change and improvements. Review and benchmark the internal and external environment, translating good practice into proposals that are aligned to HR and corporate goals. Contribute to functional and cross-functional initiatives as required. Take ownership as a Business Partner team, working together to make decisions in line with direction provided by senior HR leaders. Acts as organisation ambassadors and HR thought leaders in the external market.
• Partner with HR colleagues and business leaders to adapt packages to meet changing needs. Drive business results through performance improvement and encourage and reward behaviour aligned to company leadership values. Participate in selection activities for senior roles, in collaboration with colleagues in Recruitment, to ensure the right fit for the department and also potential for future needs of the company.
• Provide strategic HR direction and performance reporting to the business unit leadership and management. Create value-adding interactions with HR department resources to meet business needs, effectively engaging HR Shared Services, service delivery teams and Centres of Excellence. Measure and understand success of HR policies and procedures in the business to ensure that concerned CoE’s are updated based on business needs.
• Utilise opportunities to develop and stretch the HR Advisors through supporting / leading projects and initiatives that meet their DPs. Mentor, coach and provide feedback to support their development and align with the future capability needs for HR.

Qualification

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

Degree in a relevant subject (HR, Business, Humanities) and a minimum of 10 years of experience in Human Resources.

You’ll have an edge if you have:

• Post Graduate qualifications or professional accreditation (CIPD, AHRI or equivalent).
• Experience in an advisory or partnering role. Management experience (preferred).
• Ability to connect internal problems with external knowledge and research, leveraging networks to provide innovative recommendations to improve business results.

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what it’s like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.