Typical Accountabilities

Sustaining GCC Total Reward framework:

• Develops and implements EVP Total Reward strategy with annual checks -to strengthen competitiveness, cost-effectiveness, diversity, performance-driven culture via leveraging on solid benchmarks analysis & corporate guidelines.
• Leads day-to-day management of reward delivery or acts as an expert resource for GCC, providing advice on strategic and policy development that will have a significant role in supporting the medium term achievement of business objectives.
• Supports governance of compensation & benefits programmes, acting as a business advisor, providing expert advice and assistance in the development of reward offerings and appropriate decision-making.
• Design and maintain reward policies, ensuring adherence with regulatory, legal and best practice competitive approaches in markets under purview.
• Works across the HR function and business, aligns reward programme delivery with wider HR and business objectives, ensuring interventions are integrated in a consistent way that supports AZ’s organisational objectives
• Is a primary point of contact for finance team on manpower accruals & planning. Financially plans and manages budgets for all areas of responsibility required for delivery of reward programmes.
• Provides relevant FCF controls & monitoring across GCC.
• Ensures proper manpower costs & Mercer mapping alignment (lead alignment of CLs, MRPs, Cost Centres across GCC, cooperating with total rewards international)
• Leads annual waves of career progression and RP process, also job re-evaluations and roles CL mapping per business need
• Ensures competitive & market aligned C&B practices, working closely with various external partners for the best quality service (global recognition program Catalyze, medical insurance plans, Mercer data, etc). Reviews benefits provision, monitoring cost and financial impact of provision and competitiveness of package to market. Projects future funding requirements and works with providers to maximum effectiveness of provision. Owns relationships with third party benefit providers.
• Ensures GCC reward related practices are governed and executed in the right way (severance packages, job offers, retention & counter offers, etc)
• Leads ‘Financial health’ taskforce & activities across GCC (train managers & staff, Total Reward toolkit & Employee handbooks etc), enabling annual Total Reward philosophy & Financial Health communication & engagement plan.
• Ensures pay and benefit benchmarking for the GCC cluster is carried out in accordance with the benchmarking strategy.
• Oversees the delivery of annual compensation and benefit review events such as bonus, long-term incentives and salary review for the region.
• Reviews benefits provision, monitoring the financial impact of provision and competitiveness to the market.

HR Operations:

• Leads GCC policies & procedure design and update, ensuring they are legally compliant, aligned with AZ global practices & across GCC.  
• Works closely with HR Advisory to accelerate HR operations move to HR Advisory Team for Gulf & KSA, employees’ self-service skills
• Within Market roles ensure that compensation and benefits policies and processes comply with local regulatory and legal requirements and are effectively implemented and communicated within the region.
• Lead activities related to administration of legally required employee relations structures, collective labour agreements,  all extra-contractual agreements and any other provision that may be applicable

Corporate responsibility:

• Maintain highest ethical standards and work in a spirit of AstraZeneca Code of Ethics, following rules & norms set by corporate policies
• Ensure that all conducted activities are done in accordance with local legislation and corporate standards.
• Timely report (as per respective procedures): health/environment/wellbeing related accidents; adverse events that you became aware about; change in status of your Conflict of Interest.

Typical People Management Responsibility (direct / indirect reports)

• Matrix Manager – (projects/dotted line)

What is the global remit?

• 4 or more countries at a minimum of 40% of time

Location:

• Cairo/Dubai

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Complete higher education in business/ HR
• Certified at Compensation & reward management or having >8yrs of relevant experience in Total Reward/C&B
• Expert knowledge of policies, process and procedures pertaining to compensation, pensions, healthcare, cars and other significant benefits arrangements in GCC markets with focus on Saudi
• Solid understanding of drivers of improved business performance in relation to compensation & benefits
• Project management skills
• Advanced financial literacy
• Well developed people skills and ability to engage, influence and negotiate with major stakeholders from all levels of the organization and internal clients

Desirable

• Experience in the pharmaceutical/FMCG industry
• Experience in working effectively in a global team
• Established networks within regional and local Compensation & Benefits community
• Strong change management skills

Key Relationships to reach solutions

Internal (to AZ or team) :

• People Manager, including GCC SLT
• AZ HR Advisory team
• HR GCC & MEA
• Area Reward Team
• GCC Finance and Legal

External (to AZ) :

•    Service providers (eg. medical insurance, benefits partners etc)

Date Posted

22-Jun-2021

Closing Date

05-Jul-2021

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