HR Business Partner - UAE
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About the Role
Puig seeks an HR Business Partner to shape a high-performance employee experience across its UAE retail network. Reporting to the Middle East HR Director, you will partner with retail leaders on talent management, employee relations, culture, and reward.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with retail leaders to align people priorities with business strategy
- Act as trusted advisor on organizational design, team structure, performance, engagement, and change management
- Drive full retail performance management cycle and annual talent review process
- Support recruitment at all levels, including career fairs and assessment centers
- Maintain strong field presence through regular store visits
- Oversee full employee lifecycle from onboarding to exit
- Manage employee relations matters in partnership with HR Operations
- Co design and implement engagement initiatives
- Drive annual salary review process and oversee retail commission scheme effectiveness
- Manage Emiratization program and ensure compliance with UAE national hiring requirements
Requirements
- Proven experience as an HR Business Partner, ideally within retail, beauty, luxury or fast paced environments
- Genuine passion for retail and belief in Retail HR as strategic focus
- High operational rigor and attention to detail
- Strong analytical capability with HR systems and Excel
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands on execution
- Strong influencing, coaching and stakeholder management skills
- Collaborative, solutions oriented and positive mindset
- Fluent in English (Arabic is a plus)
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The Opportunity
- Reporting to the Middle East HR Director, the HR Business Partner – UAE plays a pivotal role in shaping a high performance and engaging employee experience across our retail network.
- This is a true generalist HR role with strong retail proximity — combining operational excellence with strategic impact.
What you'll get to do
- Partner closely with retail leaders to align people priorities with business strategy.
- Act as a trusted advisor on organizational design, team structure, performance, engagement, and change management.
- Drive the full retail performance management cycle, enabling meaningful feedback conversations and development planning.
- Lead the annual talent review process for retail teams, building succession pipelines and identifying high potential talent.
- Attract, develop, and retain top retail talent, ensuring strong workforce planning and proactive hiring strategies.
- Support recruitment at all levels, including career fairs and assessment centers ensuring a high quality candidate experience.
- Maintain strong field presence through regular store visits to stay close to teams and understand operational realities.
- Oversee the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding to exit partnering with HR Operations team to ensure seamless execution.
- Manage pre boarding, onboarding, probation follow up, exit processes and ensure accurate documentation.
- Oversee and manage employee relations matters in partnership with the local HR Operations team.
- Ensure completion of mandatory corporate trainings and policy adherence.
- Act as a strong ambassador of Puig culture and values across the retail network.
We'd love to meet you if you have
- Proven experience as an HR Business Partner, ideally within retail, beauty, luxury or fast paced environments.
- A genuine passion for retail and a strong belief in Retail HR as a strategic, long term focus.
- High operational rigor with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong analytical capability and confidence working with HR systems and Excel.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands on execution.
- Strong influencing, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
- A collaborative, solutions oriented and positive mindset.
- Fluent in English (Arabic is a plus).
A few things you'll love about us
- An entrepreneurial, creative and welcoming work culture.
- A range of learning and development opportunities.
- An international company with plenty of opportunities to grow.
- A competitive compensation & benefits package.
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