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 A\xe2\x80\x9drab 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\xe2\x80\x99s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation 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 As the Talent & Leadership Development Manager, the primary purpose of the role is to support the development of leadership development strategies and paths and deliver talent management solutions that strengthen Al Futtaim\xe2\x80\x99s leadership bench strength, retaining and developing high potential employees, middle managers, senior leaders and UAE Nationals. The role will act as a strong contributor to growing internal talent and leadership capabilities that align with Al Futtaim\xe2\x80\x99s strategic goals and objectives, and empower leaders to drive high performance, foster a positive work culture, and achieve excellence.
What you will do

• Support review and develop the framework to identifying critical roles and successor planning. Responsible to action, follow up and review the collective and individual development needs for both critical roles and successors
• Coordinate divisional wide annual and periodical talent identification exercises with HRBPs and identify high potential talent and talent pools
• Develop high impact solutions and actions to increase the development and retention of all leadership talent, including nationals.
• Define and communicate talent data and analytics to stakeholders as relevant
• Design and conduct assessment centres for talent validation and succession planning, including the use of various talent assessment tools/psychometrics
• Develop Talent Management programs and solutions to support achieving the Talent Management & Leadership strategy and roadmap
• Design career and learning paths for defined roles and job families
• Input into the divisional leadership development strategy and objectives which caters for leaders from middle management to executive board members
• Design leadership development pathways and programs to complement the leadership development strategy
• Design and facilitate leadership skills courses to middle managers (both face to face & virtual) using various instructional and digital design techniques
• Partner with the business to conduct relevant needs diagnosis and gap analysis that input into leadership development strategy and planning
• Implement mentoring and coaching frameworks and tools for leadership development
• Coordinate annual performance cycle activities and report progress from the goal setting, performance reviews.
• Work with HRBPs and Talent Centre to embed \xe2\x80\x98continuous performance management\xe2\x80\x99 culture
• Manage divisional comms plan for performance management milestones and awareness in coordination with group level communication cascade

Required Skills to be successful