The Opportunity
We’re building awe-inspiring experiences. We’re launching award-winning brands. And we’re scaling faster than any tech event in history. LEAP, launched in Riyadh in February 2022, attracted over 100,000 attendees to its first edition, and became the most attended tech event in the world in February 2023.
Commentators have described it as: 'A digital Davos’ (Wired); ‘A head-to-toe tech player’ (Fast Company) and 'The largest debut tech event in history' (Wired). Stephen Bartlett, speaking with Fast Company, said, “I’ve been to a lot of conferences and conventions around the world, and this really feels like it’s in a class of its own.”
The event is supported by the world’s leading tech brands, investors, sovereign wealth funds and startups, and captures the pioneering spirit of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. With its unprecedented scale and momentum, the event is attracting enormous interest beyond the tech sector and requires an experienced brand leader to harness its full potential. Learn more about the experiences that we curate.
Tahaluf is rewriting the events playbook. Its purpose is transformational, its DNA digital, and its ambition unprecedented. Over the next 12 months Tahaluf will scale to further increase its lead as the largest B2B Live and On Demand Events organiser in Saudi Arabia: by SQM, Attendance, Colleagues and Revenue.
To scale at this pace requires impeccable local partners, and Tahaluf is proud to enjoy the support and partnership of several Gov and Non Gov Organisations that are at the apex of Saudi’s B2B and B2C large scale events scene. In fact, our partners don’t just support the expansion of live events in the Kingdom; they’re also the partner of choice for heavyweights like Apple, Amazon and AliBaba.
Throughout 2023 and 2024 Tahaluf will build on its award-winning events; LEAP (www.onegiantleap.com) and Black Hat Middle East (www.blackhatmea.com), to launch new, largescale business-to-business events. From technology, real estate and food to pop culture, intermobility, beauty and beyond, Tahaluf will introduce a vibrant, varied portfolio of events, trade shows and conferences to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Role
Reporting to Head of HR – Tahaluf, and working in partnership with senior business leaders, the HR Manager is a generalist role that oversees end-to-end HR operations and activities for Tahaluf. A key part of this role is building credible and trusted business relationships with managers and all Tahaluf colleagues and ensuring the effective HR support and advice is provided at all times to ensure best practice.
This role is key to the provision of a seamless HR service, ensuring that all people related projects and programmes are executed in a timely and efficient manner in alignment with business, people or wider organisational goals. This will include working closely with the Dubai HR Admin team and overseeing all administrative procedures relating to onboarding through to offboarding.
Key Performance Indicators
- Ensuring where appropriate that all activities comply with Saudi Labor Laws
- Managing and overseeing HR operations and ensuring an effective and efficient service is maintained, with quality and accuracy
- HR Business Partnering to support local leadership and portfolio management teams to deliver the business & people strategy
- Providing specialist advice on employee relations issues, to mitigate risks to the business and support colleagues
- Collaborating on colleague engagement plans, with year-on-year improvement in engagement scores
- Contributing to making the company a great place to work
Key Responsibilities
HR Operations
- Working closely with the Head of HR to build out a complete end to end HR service to best support Tahuluf business growth and ambitions
- Lead on the delivery of a seamless HR service from onboarding, payroll, reporting, annual salary review, promotion to off boarding
- Identifying potential risks and coordinating with Head of HR / Legal to ensure issues are promptly addressed
- Managing, maintaining and developing HR policies and procedures
- Managing and overseeing the monthly payroll and any ad hoc payments
- Overseeing administrative tasks as necessary and ensuring accurate and complete HR data is maintained at all times, and monthly HR reporting are correct and are delivered on time
- Working with the Head of HR to ensure our reward (salary and bonus) framework and benefits are kept competitive year on year
- Managing/overseeing the on-boarding process for all new colleagues, ensuring all new colleagues experience is exemplary.
- Managing/overseeing the colleague offboarding process, which includes guiding colleagues through the end of service procedure, exit interviews and collating of information where necessary.
- To undertake various ad hoc projects as directed by the Head of HR
HR Business Partnering
- Supporting the delivery of people and organisation related programmes and initiatives regarding performance and talent management, succession planning, reward and recognition, employee engagement, organisational development and change management
- Delivering continuous stakeholder engagement, ensuring a continuous pulse check is undertaken to ensure their needs are met
- Actively managing working relationships with key stakeholders, providers and suppliers locally
- Establishing trust and maintaining a level of integrity as the local HR support for employees and managers, helping to resolve issues and answer questions or coordinating as necessary with the appropriate resources for resolution
- Providing advice and support to managers on all employee relations issues to facilitate effective resolutions to problems or concerns
- Working within the disciplinary/legislative framework to ensure compliance, fairness and consistency across the business
- Guiding managers on the performance management process, ensuring effective management tools are in place
- Escalating concerns /risks to the Head of HR
- Providing data and insights aligned to key HR metrics
Employee experience & Culture
- Promoting an environment which is guided by company values in all aspects of managing the employee journey/experience
- Working with the Head of HR to embed a set of values and behaviours to ensure a positive working environment
- Ensuring all Tahaluf employees receive a great HR experience at all times
Qualifications & experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills & qualities
- Good written and oral communication skills in both Arabic and English is essential
- Excellent quantitative skills
- Excellent Excel, PowerPoint
- Strong analytical and presentation skills
- Good attention to detail and accuracy.
- Self-starter with proactive nature, and ability to work autonomously
- Highly collaborative
