NEWGEN - People & Culture - Trainee

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What You'll Be Doing

We are looking for a dynamic and proactive People & Culture Intern to support SGII and Joint Ventures in driving both strategic people initiatives and key project management functions. This role will focus on supporting key budget cycles, HR operations, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and driving high-impact projects that contribute to business success.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

HR Data & Compliance:

• Create PO Codes and launch job requisitions for SGII and JVs
• Support the onboarding and transfer and mobility processes, ensuring correct cost center placement, reporting lines, and job titles are updated on the HR Systems
• Ensure and gatekeep the career levelling of employees, new job title creation, comp and benefits are aligned with group policies
• Maintain and audit employee data proactively (e.g., org charts, cost centers, reporting structures).
• Regularly update and analyze key HR cycles such as Performance Reviews, Goal Setting, and Salary Reviews, ensuring adherence to group deadlines.
• Attend HR Data Analyst community sessions on behalf of SGII & JVs, ensuring best practices are implemented.
• Ensure all reports and respective information are well organised and up to date on the teams channels to support the wider team
• Act as a key point of contact for non-technical support on HR platforms such as Power BI, MyChalhoub, Plano, and Drive, ensuring seamless access to insights and reports
• Conduct regular checks on Work-From-Overseas (WFO) and Annual Leave usage
• HR Reporting & Insights:
• Play a pivotal role in supporting the annual budget cycle and mid-year budget revision by leading the creation and reporting of HR manpower budgets. Ensure timely submission within group deadlines and seamless integration into the group system.
• Provide monthly manpower budget vs. actual budget to VP People, Snr PP, and Finance teams, flagging any discrepancies
• Share hiring and workforce analytics reports with People Team and Senior Leadership to drive data-informed decisions
• Conduct pay parity analysis and provide salary adjustment recommendations.
• Deliver and deliver a year-end HR Insights Newsletter for senior leadership, leveraging Power BI dashboards
• Monitor and report usage of Talent Development & Employee Engagement budgets, ensuring alignment with forecasts
• Create monthly recruitment report, and ensure “offers made” trackers are updated and tracked against budget
• Strategic HR Initiatives:
• Ensure progress tracking of key People Strategy metrics, including D&I commitments such as Women in Leadership and National Hiring, as part of transformational HR projects
  
  

Project Management & Business Operations

• Project Planning & Execution:
• Supporting Snr Mgr on building workforce planning models for new JVs
• Develop project roadmaps and track milestones for HR-related and cross-functional initiatives.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
• Partner with Group HR and Finance to support reporting and workforce planning, particularly during budget cycles
• Assist in preparing and collecting data for high-impact reports submitted to Senior Leadership and external stakeholders.
• Ensure that project updates, risk assessments, and next steps are effectively communicated.
• Risk Management & Problem Solving:
• Identify potential risks early in projects and develop mitigation strategies.
• Proactively flag challenges and propose practical solutions.
• Adapt to dynamic business needs with a solution-oriented mindset.
• Process Optimization & Efficiency:
• Identify opportunities for process improvements within HR workflows and people partnering activities.
• Drive standardization of HR operations through data-driven decision-making.
• Maintain timely processing of PO codes, job requisitions, and org chart updates.
• Performance Tracking & Reporting:
• Use data analytics to track project success and measure impact.
• Prepare timely reports and dashboards on recruitment, budgets, and key HR cycles.
  

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Problem-solving & Analytical Thinking
• Strong Stakeholder Relations & Communication
• Attention to Detail & Accuracy
• Adaptability & Resilience in a Fast-Paced Environment
• Proactive & Hands-On Approach
• Highly Responsive & Deadline-Oriented
  
  

What We Can Offer You

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.