People Partner Trainee (Level Shoes) UAE National - Fresh Graduate

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What you'll be doing

- Be a Level Shoes People & Culture ambassador
- Support Head of People/People Partner with operational people partner activities across Level Shoes back office, frontline and operations
- Support Head of People with the designing, implementing, and driving engagement for key Level Shoes events, Recognition and Wellbeing activities
- Coordinate all end to end Level Shoes recognition award cycles, aligned with business leaders and Head of People/People Partner
- Source and drive wellbeing initiatives across Level Shoes under the project umbrella of the 'Level Shoes Community'(office, stores, warehouse)
- Deploy Level shoes people experience products e.g. onboarding, internal mobility, shoe allowance, custom kits, etc.
- Serve as the liaison with vendors to design and order materials such as but not limited to onboarding kits, gifts and souvenirs to support Level Shoes initiatives.
- In collaboration with Level shoes Marketing/Brand & Content team, liaise on people marketing and communications of the different People Experience & Culture initiatives
- Collaborate with Communications and Brand on creative and graphic needs (videos, pictures, copy, certificates, PPT decks etc.
- Ensure that internal initiatives and communications serve as the voice of employees through various channels (survey, workshops, focus groups, etc.)
- Create, organize, and maintain updated HR communications & engagement calendar - Organize and maintain updated people budget (outside payroll)
- Manage, develop, and maintain employee engagement programs and own the engagement activities calendar and draft a plan with respective People Partner on the execution plan that foster and promote a culture of excellence

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- Having strong people skills and people communication; both verbal and written
- Passionate and knowledgeable about Retail (even as a customer would be fine)
- Creative and out of the box thinker, would be great to have someone with marketing or comms background who wants to thrive in HR
- Agile and resilient
- Thrives in a fast-paced, diverse environment
- Goal oriented and a 'doer'
- Someone with high standards of work and efficiency
- Confident and happy with empowerment
- Curious

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce

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