Manager - People Experience & Culture Chalhoub Group

What you'll be doing

• Lead the creation and deployment of People Experience & Culture strategies in KSA in partnership with the Executive Committee and business leaders.
• Own and localize the People Experience & Culture agenda and identify pain points through structured employee listening, including survey deployment (Voice of People & Great Place to Work surveys), focus groups, and interviews, and develop data-driven action plans.
  
• Design and implement local experience/culture/ engagement/wellbeing initiatives aligned with the Group strategy and annual calendar and adapt them to resonate with the needs of local teams (office, stores warehouses).
• Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and employee journey design sessions using design thinking and co-creation approaches.
• Support in adapting Group UX and EX solutions such as onboarding, internal mobility, and hybrid work tools to suit local context and needs.
• Manage end-to-end communication for People Experience & Culture initiatives, ensuring alignment with tone, voice, and purpose.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders and regional stakeholders to influence engagement and culture decisions in alignment with business needs.

What you ll need to succeed

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Human Resources, with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role.
• Strong capability in facilitating workshops, co-creation sessions, and focus groups.
• Understanding of employee surveys, analysis of engagement data, and translating insights into measurable actions is preferred.
• Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable working across regional teams in a matrixed, multicultural environment.
• Skilled in event planning, internal communication, and execution of experience-led activations.
• Passionate about culture, engagement, and driving people-centered change.