Jr. HRBP Real Estate Asset Management Qatar

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Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group's entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

Overview Of The Role:

The Junior HR Business Partner is responsible for providing comprehensive HR business partnering support for Doha Festival City Mall in Qatar. The role focuses on fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring alignment with HR policies and procedures. The Junior HRBP collaborates with stakeholders, manages employee relations, workforce planning, and contributes to talent acquisition and engagement processes, ensuring compliance with internal standards and labor laws.

What You Will Do:

• Provide day-to-day HR business partnering support to assigned business units, serving as the first point of contact for managers and employees on HR-related matters.
• Implement and support HR policies, procedures, and initiatives, including employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, and engagement activities.
• Manage employee queries and basic case management, escalating complex issues to the Head of HR, ensuring accurate documentation and timely system updates.
• Support onboarding, probation reviews, contract changes, and offboarding processes.
• Contribute to change management and communication initiatives, promoting workplace culture compliance with company policies and labor law.
• Assess manpower requirements, prepare and review manpower budgets and forecasts.
• Conduct annual manpower budgeting exercise efficiently, ensure accuracy and collaboration with the Head of HR.
• Maintain 100% accuracy when providing information or making entries on SAP for budget documentation.
• Liaise with Hiring Managers and Talent Acquisition Partners to brief and clarify job requirements.
• Support line managers in creating job requisitions on PeopleHub (SAP), and review job descriptions.
• Participate in interviews and selection processes, providing unbiased feedback.
• Ensure offer letters align with Qatar Compensation structure and Al Futtaim SOPs.
• Ensure a seamless onboarding experience, arranging induction plans, and preparing joining announcements.
• Monitor weekly onboarding tracker for accuracy of data related to Doha Festival City Mall.
• Manage probation process, including scheduling probation meetings and aligning goals with line managers.
• Ensure employees are informed of relevant HR policies, benefits, and changes.
• Provide timely resolutions to queries raised by employees, minimizing escalations.
• Manage talent review processes and identification of critical roles according to internal guidelines.
• Arrange annual employee engagement and wellbeing calendar, including team building, conferences, and sports events.
• Ensure high participation and communication of Employee Engagement Surveys and reward platforms.
• Liaise to provide Training Need Analysis for each division to L&D Partners.
• Ensure participation in training programs organized by Real Estate L&D and Group HR.
• Provide timely inputs for salary increments, promotions, and other HR data analytics.
• Handle all Employee Relations cases with confidentiality, objectivity, and follow principles of natural justice.
• Organize and document meetings/interviews, sharing outcomes with Group ER for resolution.
• Manage HR outsourced manpower agency contracts, ensuring compliance with regulations and policies.
• Monitor service delivery, review agency performance and SLAs, negotiate renewals, and maintain records.
• Oversee attendance and payroll for outsourced staff, ensuring correct data and compliance with statutory requirements.
• Coordinate with agencies and internal teams to resolve payroll discrepancies and ensure timely processing.

Required Skills To Be Successful:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving ability and negotiation skills.
• Time management and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Mentoring and coaching skills.

What Qualifies You For The Role:

• Bachelor's degree in administration or HR.
• 5 years of experience in HR function at a large-sized companyand knowledge of Qatar Labor Law.
• Supervisory skills necessary for effective job performance.
• Experience in employee relations and maintaining confidentiality in handling sensitive issues.

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years. Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us. AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

About Al-Futtaim Malls

Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers. Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper's point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco. Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall's deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long term value for its partners.

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About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions. The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation. The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services. These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.