HR Business Partner | Retail | Qatar – Al Futtaim Group
Overview Of The Role:
To act as a trusted advisor to senior line management on all Human Resource Management matters; to ensure a keen understanding of the business so as to implement HR strategies and practices that support robust business growth; reinforce a culture of performance focus, meritocracy and diversity; and comply with Group HR policy.
What You Will Do:
Operational
A. Strategy
- In liaison with the Business MD, GM HR and Group HR Director create a HR strategy for the Store and the annual HR Plan.
- Communicate plans and progress against the plan to the HR Function and the Business Units.
- Create and support a continuous improvement environment for HR Activities within the Business Units.
- Capability
- Ensure new employees are properly inducted into the business and given support to become productive as quickly as possible.
- Develop succession plans and retention strategies for key talent and positions.
- Develop and execute a learning and development plan that equips individuals with necessary skills.
- Formulate and implement performance management plans to improve performance or assist with exit from the organisation.
- As part of the HR Plan specify training initiatives required to support the business, liaise with Group Training Department to ensure appropriate initiatives are delivered.
- Ensure training needs of key and high potential staff are identified and delivered.
- Ensure all key positions have identified successors.
- To ensure compliance to HR policy is maintained.
- Review and strengthen business internal controls and procedures.
- Ensure compliance of DOA and provide leadership on process and governance.
- Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and other requirements.
- To ensure that Emiritization focus is maintained and diversification goals are reinforced and achieved.
Commercial
- Act as a trusted business partner and coach to senior line management.
- Consult and support line managers across the business units.
- Focus on measuring the employee engagement of the business units and take actions necessary to improve it.
- Advise, coach and mentor management and HR team on people related issues.
- Act as change agent and facilitate transition.
Workforce Optimisation
- Play an advisory role in creating and managing a lean and multi-skilled workforce.
- Support and facilitate the implementation of business structure reorganisation and consolidation to deliver efficiencies.
- Play a key role in communicating organisational messages and monitoring feedback within the business units.
- Ensure compliance with localisation policy and targets.
- Look at business unit productivity and take necessary actions to improve it.
Financial
- Provide line management with regular and financial reporting of employee costs.
- Ensure annual manpower budgeting exercise is conducted accurately and efficiently.
- Create, obtain approval for and manage HR Department budget.
- Ensure HR Team adherence to the business financial systems and processes.
- Manpower planning on an annual basis.
People Management and Development
- Prepares action plans by individuals as well as by team for effective search of sales leads and prospects.
- Provides timely feedback to senior management regarding performance.
- Provide effective leadership to a culturally diverse team of sales staff.
- Be responsible for selection of competent staff and their on-going motivation, training and development.
Job Details
| Posted Date: | 2026-09-14 |
| Job Location: | Qatar |
| Job Role: | Human Resources and Recruitment |
| Company Industry: | Accounting |
