Senior Director HR MENA

Job Description

Purpose:To develop, lead and enable delivering a comprehensive people strategy that enables business growth, talent development and creating a high performance culture. The role holds a key responsibility in the regions enablement, through managing complexities and challenges, opportunities, and potential by being a key partner to the Senior Leadership Team.  Key Responsibilities:

• Own and design, in partnership within the VP HR EM, the Strategic People Strategy for Adidas MENA and lead the execution.
• Accountable for the execution of the People Strategy, HR Strategy and people experience across MENA by delivering meaningful moments that matter.
• Drive Strategic Workforce Management and Organisational Design/Development initiatives in MENA for commercial and group functions.
• Accountable for Actions that legally expose us/employee in the MENA cluster. Actions that put our employee safety and security at risks, actions that are detrimental to the Company, Brand/Employer Brand in the market/location/site.
• Partner and build strong relationships with the MENA Leadership team.
• Actively support business initiatives and business needs with effective people products/ services and measures that promote positive creative climate for our people.
• Enable and support business teams across the location on key employee communications of all people topics, i.e. Town Halls, Employee Meetings, leadership movement and announcements, etc.
• Ensure that all aspects of staffing, employee relations for all employees are delivered timely and in accordance with relevant labor and commercial legislation, in line with corporate guidelines.
• Manage HR legal compliance, sustainability, legal entity, employee governing bodies topics for the market with legal, tax and the business.
• Work closely with the Rewards team to input, shape, develop and promote overall compensation & benefit programs and ensure seamless and consistent implementation that is fit for purpose to the customer and aligned with the Global people strategy.
• Work closely with the Talent team to input, shape, develop and promote overall Talent programs, learning and leadership products to ensure a seamless and consistent implementation that is fit for purpose to the customer and aligned with the Global people strategy.
• Ensure smooth processes for recruitment and transfer activities in close cooperation with EM/ MENA Talent Acquisition. Lead the recruitment in partnership with the talent acquisition partner for the Senior Management team role of MENA.
• Accountable to ensure the team takes responsibility for and executes all core annual people processes including people planning, annual salary rounds, promotions/salary adjustments, succession planning, talent identification, talent conferences, performance reviews, etc. for MENA are implemented with excellence and consistency.  Evolve and utilize the global HR reporting in business decision-making about people and org evolution decisions.  
• Evolve and utilize the global HR reporting in business decision-making about people and org evolution decisions. 
• Define organizational structure, set objectives and manage workloads and results to achieve goals while adopting best practices and achieving continuous process improvement.
• Drive and maintain people engagement of the team at every level through effective motivation, coaching, training and development of people in the team.
• Responsible for FTE / PEX management for all areas within the scope of Market controllers and actively partner (provide input) with VP HR, Global functions on people decisions to ensure there is parity/consistency in application of budgets/policy.

• MENA SLT
• EM HR SLT
• Talent and Rewards Partner
• Talent Acquisition Lead
• Legal Counsel
• Finance

• HR Capabilities: Employee relations, use of HR metrics, change delivery, organizational design delivery, maintain external perspective, anticipating people trends, strategic workforce planning
• Business Capabilities: Commercial Awareness, business acumen, customer focus, aligning business & HR strategy, knowledge of the value chain and key processes to use and impact on the people outcome and strategy
• Innovative and strategic thinking
• A leader with excellent management skills
• Articulate and clear in written and verbal communication
• Confident, Creative and Collaborative and role models this within the team, coaching others around it across the team
• Drives innovation and fosters the development of new ideas/approaches/methods
• Drives change processes through an inspirational leadership style and excellent change management expertise
• Ability to derive specific goals for area of responsibility from the overall vision/strategy, taking into account the relevant business KPIs
• Ability to interact at the highest levels of the company

• University degree focusing on Business Administration, Human Resources Management, or related field 
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in a multinational company with experience in HR Management, Rewards, Talent or business function
• International experience and mindset
• Fluent in English, ideally also in Arabic and French
• Proven strategic HR business partner, who supported partners and contributed to the further development of standard/global HR tools and programs
• Experience in handling complicated employee relations issues including union drives/organizing attempts, discrimination claims, sexual harassment investigations and downsizing
• Experience in leading a HR team on acquisition/divestiture and integration of a new organization

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