Senior HR Manager (HR BP Aviation)

In Muharraq, DHL Express has a vacancy for a Senior HR Manager – HR BP Aviation, the strategic HR partner of the company’s Aviation entity. Strategy is only part of it: the post also handles day-to-day employee relations, including advising on and leading negotiations with trade unions and social partners alongside the ER/IR team.

Senior HR manager job details in Muharraq

The job keeps HR practice in step with the Aviation entity’s commercial goals, through an HR strategy that follows the MENA HR plan while fitting local needs. It works directly with executive leadership, prepares the HR reporting requested by the VP Aviation, and delivers much of its work together with the ER, recruitment, L&D and Employee Engagement teams. Localization of the workforce is named as a key focus of recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Building and running the Aviation entity’s HR strategy, and facilitating planning sessions that tie HR initiatives to business goals
• Advising senior management on workforce planning and organizational development, and documenting the structure against Regional Structure recommendations
• Managing employee relations cases such as grievances, disciplinary matters, performance issues and employment tribunals, while monitoring the ER climate
• Leading HR support through restructuring, mergers or acquisitions, with communication plans, training and support for affected staff
• Running the annual Employee Opinion Survey, focus groups, quarterly external town halls and health and wellbeing programs
• Coordinating recognition schemes such as Long Service Awards, Employee of the Month and the Chief Energizer Awards
• Overseeing appraisals, improvement plans, succession planning and the use of my Talent World by managers
• Benchmarking pay and benefits against the aviation market, tracking HR KPIs and handling leave reports, exit interviews and inductions

Requirements

• Specific experience in remuneration, employee relations and employee engagement
• Sound grasp of HR best practice and of the labor laws and regulations that apply to aviation
• Proven background in talent management and organizational development
• Good spoken and written Arabic and English
• Analytical, data-driven decision making and the ability to influence stakeholders at every level
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and readiness to travel when the business needs it

Preferred qualifications

• A master’s degree and/or an HR certification such as SHRM-SCP, SPHR or CIPD

Benefits

The company mentions career support in an international environment and a wide-ranging benefits program.

About DHL Express

DHL Express started cross-border express delivery in 1969 and now operates in more than 220 countries and territories.

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