Job vacancy HR Manager

The client is a well established and continuously growing manufacturing firm based in Jeddah, As a key member of the leadership team, the HR Manager will lead the Human Resources initiatives to provide and employee-oriented, high-performance culture that emphasises empowerment, quality, productivity and standards, goal attainment and organisation growth.

The Key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Develop and implement talent development and succession planning strategies.
• Manage organisation culture transformation and change processes.
• Develop and implement reward and compensation systems.
• Develop and implement performance management and measurement systems.
• Represent the HR department consistently and with professionalism - facing the boardroom, conference circuit and workforce with confidence and skill.
• Translate key data into an effective and commercially focused HR and people strategy, working with senior management and influencing them on the best course of action.
• Provide company-wide information by interpreting people data and analysing figures on staff turnover, cost per hire etc.
• Establish departmental accountability's for the range of HR functions from talent acquisition to health and safety compliance.
• Devise recruitment strategy and oversee its implementation. Interview senior hires where necessary.
• Update and review HR policies, procedures and guidelines and enforce organisation values.
• Control the HR budget and report on current and future staffing costs and initiatives

The Successful candidate will have/be:

• Bachelor's degree is minimum; master's degree in business administration, human resources management, industrial relations, or even a law degree is desirable.
• Held previous position of seniority, able to establish credibility and build department accountability
• Able to problem solve and demonstrate operational and strategic skills
• Comfortable in developing team members and empowering staff
• Demonstrates commercial acumen - partners with the business to deliver commercially focused people strategies and has a good overall understanding of company finances and uses this to develop policies
• Solid employment KSA & UAE labour law knowledge and proven experience of applying updated legislation to a variety of HR situations.
• Outstanding communication skills - able to deliver bad news and give it a positive outlook as well as ability to influence board members.
• Proven organisation skills and ability to priorities
• Mastery of Arabic and English languages.