IHG Hiring for Director of Human Resources – voco Dubai Job at Dubai Full Time

At voco™, we’ve created a new hotel brand that gives people a different choice. Hotels to count on but different enough to be fun. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Our new family of hotels are connected by their own sense of style and individual character – and that’s something we make the most of. Finding the perfect mix of reliability and new experiences. Because we believe that when you respect individuality life gets interesting.

At the heart of every great stay is a great host. We think the trick to hosting is to take the time to understand what your guests need and want. So, before they arrive, we find out more about them and how we can make their stay better. Whilst they are with us, we give tempting recommendations of our favorite drinks or food, or tips for local experiences that they won’t find in any guidebook.

Your day to day

As HR Director, you’ll drive HR and initiatives such as hiring, benefits, employee relations and training programmes, to ensure compliance for hotel colleagues. You’ll also promote a positive team culture whilst ensuring colleagues deliver a guest experience that is unique and brings the brand to life. You’ll also coach the Area General Manager and leadership team on all people-related issues.

People:

• Create programmes to foster a positive work environment for all employees. Support and administer an annual team member satisfaction survey
• Educate and train managers on HR disciplines to foster productivity and enhance performance
• Welcome and conduct new team member orientation
• Oversee maintenance of accurate and up-to-date personnel files and records for all employees
• Ensure hiring standards and applicable laws and regulations are followed
• Build great relations with outside contacts

Financial:

• Help create and work within the HR budget.
• Monitor staffing and labour standards to manage costs
• Mitigate financial risks associated with employee relations issues
• Identify and analyse local compensation and benefits practices to ensure financial competitiveness

Guest Experience:

• Develop creative ways to inspire and motivate team members to provide guests with a unique experience
• Make time to interact with guests to hear feedback and build relationships to understand how team members can increase guest satisfaction
• Work with department managers to develop initiatives to reach service standards and drive continuous improvement in the guest experience.

Responsible Business:

• Develop awareness and reputation of the hotel and the brand in the local community and promote team member involvement in local community
• Ensure compliance with relevant employment laws and hotel or company policies and procedures
• Research and investigate all workplace issues to discover facts, identify potential risks to the hotel or company, and facilitate resolution through your employee relations programmes
• Collect and maintain data from exit interviews, turnover statistics, absenteeism reports to identify trends, training needs, and supervisory issues
• In a union environment, may manage labour relations and represent the hotel in grievances, mediations, arbitrations and contract negotiation
• Other ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

Accountabilities:

This is the top HR role in a large flagship hotel with extensive facilities and services, a number of major outlets, and catering and convention facilities. Typically manages HR colleagues and admin team.

What we need from you

• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Hotel HR Leadership/Managerial role, preferably in the GCC
• Professional HR certification is preferred
• Ability to maintain confidentiality to the extent possible in all HR related matters

What we offer

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG® hotels.

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

• True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests
• True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay
• True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs
• True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner

There’s so much more to the job than we can capture here. It’s simply about creating great experiences, doing the right thing and understanding people.

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – in addition to career development, employee room discounts and great work culture.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve -visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

Reliably Different – Welcome to voco™ Hotels, IHG’s new upscale brand. We call our Hotels voco™ – It means ‘to invite’ and ‘call together’ originating from Latin and representing our thoughtful, unstuffy and charming nature. Guests tell us that voco™ is fun without being vanilla, trendy without being alienating and premium, without being stuffy. This unique and playful attitude, combined with a consistent level of quality, sits at the heart of our brand here at voco™ Dubai Whatever we’re up to, at every instance, there are brand values and service behaviours that guide us… Brand values: Always dependable, Respect individuality & Be distinctive. Service values: Count on us to; Be natural & Make every stay special. Drawing on IHG’s years of experience in delivering True Hospitality, voco™ Hotels gives people a different choice. Hotels that are reliable enough to depend on, but different enough to be fun. Our new family of hotels is connected by their individual characters, that make memorable travel dependable with unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. The moment a guest steps into one of our hotels, they walk into a genuinely memorable experience. The world’s first voco™ hotel opened in November 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia and the first voco™ Hotel across IMEA is voco™ Dubai. voco™ Dubai is a location like no other with a premium ambiance in the heart of Dubai and laid back yet attentive service from the friendly hosts. It’s location on the vibrant Shiekh Zayed Road is also connecting it to many day time and no delights of the city, moments from shopping, dining and entertainment experiences.

Job Reference: EMEAA33626