People Director Gulf/KSA Markets

People Director Gulf/KSA Markets

People Director Gulf/KSA Markets

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Locations: Dubai

Time Type: Full time

Posted On: Posted 2 Days Ago

Time Left to Apply: End Date: November 13, 2024 (10 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R2769045

About the job

Our Team:

We are on a journey to attract and develop top diverse talent to join our mission to bring innovation to more and more patients around the world. We are seeking an experienced and passionate leader to partner with the organization’s leadership and People & Culture (P&C) team as the catalyst for the deployment of the One Sanofi People Strategy for our key market organization Gulf/KSA. The incumbent will contribute to the achievement of the company's short- and long-term goals by providing P&C leadership and support (talent management, performance, organization, culture, operational excellence) whilst ensuring legal compliance and alignment to Sanofi’s Global Business Strategy as well as the Play to Win culture.

Main Responsibilities:

1. Contributes to the development and implementation of the assigned business transformation roadmap and people agenda whilst ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic business direction.

2. Implements the new People & Culture Operating Model within the MCO.

3. Leads the People Excellence Team, CoEs on local level and Employee Relations while managing in a matrix People Business Partners, regional/global CoEs in the P&C Operating Model and assuring coordination on a country level.

4. Aims to be Best in Class Team by driving a high-performance culture and alignment across the geographies.

5. Be a Sanofi Ambassador to the external key stakeholders and push Sanofi to be recognized within the MCO.

6. Drives simplification and standardization locally and through strong partnership with global CoEs and BO.

7. Provides support and expertise on all people-related and P&C management matters within the organization, ensuring compliance to legal requirements, ethical standards, and best practices.

8. Translates business roadmap into P&C priorities, ensuring local implementation of global P&C strategy, policies, and tools.

9. Responsible for the operational excellence of all P&C related topics, policies and processes.

10. Support Talent Acquisition and TM COE and proactively drive the field of Employer Branding and address current and future talent needs to ensure business continuity.

11. Manages employer-employee relations in a fair and transparent way, promoting diversity, employee relations culture, values, and behaviours. Creates and maintains a climate for effective collaboration.

12. Manages P&C budget and total personnel cost budget in collaboration with P&C Key Markets and Finance department to support local benchmarking and associated retention challenges.

13. Develops the P&C team and enhances P&C capabilities.

14. Manages internal and external network opportunities at all levels to be aware of best practices, compliance and market challenges.

15. Ensures consistent and fair implementation of Compensation and Benefits policies and practices across the countries, GBUs/GFs, in collaboration with the COE.

16. Promotes the development of a diversified workforce (gender, nationality, professional background) and supports DEI commitments.

About You

1. Experience:

2. Strong experience in P&C management, preferably with Multinational Corporations and experience in a leadership capacity.

3. Business and outcome oriented.

4. Thinks and acts strategically, equally being operationally strong and results-oriented with experience in agile project/working methodologies.

5. Proven ability in change management and successful stakeholder management (internal and external).

6. Resilient and able to exercise a healthy balance of authority and collaboration to achieve the goals.

7. Executes in an organized and disciplined manner, and embraces a continuous improvement mindset.

8. Play to Win Behaviours:

9. Credible and trustworthy leader who role models the Play to Win behaviours of Acting for Patients & Customers, Stretch, Think One-Sanofi and Taking Action.

10. Technical Skills: Programme & change management.

11. Languages: English – full professional proficiency.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Why Sanofi

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.