Job title : Succession Planning Unit Head - UAEN
Manage the Succession Planning Unit and lead implementing Succession Planning strategy, annual plan and activities, aiding to ensure a diverse, qualified talent pool of existing employees to meet future leadership needs across the organization.
Succession Planning Operations:
- Lead the development and implementation of a succession planning model and tools, ensuring its effectiveness and enabling business continuity across the organization.
- Supervise developing and implementing formal succession plans for key roles across all the Organization.
- Lead the development of a succession planning framework for key roles and design of individual development plans for the identified potential successors.
- Design strategies and interventions to identify critical positions/top leadership and succession plans by identifying and developing successors.
- Monitor the nomination process for different leadership programs to facilitate succession planning.
- Lead communicating and the cascading and implementation of the approved succession framework.
- Conduct high-level discussions with senior management to project future leadership needs of the organization.
- Establish and implement methodologies and approaches to identify potential leadership candidates, developing assessment criteria, including skills and competencies that incorporate latest research on executive development, professional guidelines and leading practices from public and private sectors. Ensure processes adhere to professional principles and standards and yield a diverse pool of qualified potential successors.
- Partner with business unit's leaders across the organization to identify major priorities and challenges to align succession plans to mission objectives. Collaborate with P&P leaders to ensure alignment of succession plans with other initiatives (e.g., recruiting and retention strategies).
- Lead developing and implementing executive and leadership competency models. Ensure validity and job-relatedness of models. Incorporate industry leading practice and ensure adherence to professional standards and guidelines for selection tools.
- Monitor the periodic reviews and progress of the group wide succession planning program and recommend program adjustments. Lead designing and evaluating succession planning program metrics and documents and presents results.
Digitalization
- Moving towards continuous improvement of People & Performance activities and automating the tasks to ease the usage by employees and managers
- Continuous efforts in moving towards paperless organization by automating all possible processes
People Management
- Lead the unit objectives by setting individual targets, developing and motivating staff, conducting and reviewing performance appraisals for direct and indirect reports, assisting in recruitment, providing formal and informal feedback in order to maximize subordinates and section's performance.
- Contribute to the achievement of Emiratization requirements within the unit through recruitment, development and retention of UAE nationals and in line with P&P's Emiratization initiatives.
- Contribute to the development of employees through identifying the appropriate learning and development opportunities.
Qualification :
- Bachelor's degree in Organizational Psychology or equivalent
- Master degree preferred
Skills and experience :
- 5 to 7 years of experience in Human Resource (of which 3 should be at a managerial level)
- Language: full professional English proficiency both in speaking and writing
- Arabic bilingual desirable but not mandatory
- Skilled in MS Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
- High level of competency in relevant software applications
- Self-motivated with a proven ability to complete work in a timely manner
- Ability to quickly integrate with existing business software tools and knowledge of other relevant industry software
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - including appropriate stakeholder alignment
- Evidence of creating, implementing, and managing policies and procedures
- Ability to multi-task and to prioritize work effectively
- Extensive knowledge in HR talent development leading practices.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of career/ talent development techniques.
