HR Business Partner, Middle East & Africa at Uber

Job description

You Are

• Natural leader. You build relationships quickly. People look to you for direction and feel supported by you.
• Naturally curious. You're innovative, extremely creative and constantly looking for ways to improve upon things.
• Obsessive about all things People Ops. You’re respectful of the culture we’ve built and the work put in to get us this far.
• Fun. You're a charismatic people person who can talk to anyone; you're flexible, fearless, and excited about your part in our growth.
• Motivated. You understand the impact of a highly satisfied, excited crew; you are slightly obsessive-compulsive about grinding away at issues.
• Customer obsessed.

You’ll be tasked with supporting our teams on the ground in addition to:

• Partner with your clients to roll out all key people processes (performance management, compensation, benefits, development programs, etc).
• Build / shape HR Processes and connect the business with HR centers of expertise.
• Consult with managers and provide guidance and coaching when appropriate.
• An expert in employment law and legislation, ideally across multiple markets in the MEA region
• Well versed in dealing with workers' counsels and able to communicate and influence in the right way
• Provide guidance and input on workforce planning, succession planning, compensation, benchmarking, etc.
• Identify training needs for business units and individual executive coaching needs.
• Maintain in depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partner with legal department as needed/required.

Experience

• A minimum of 8+ years of relevant HR experience in South Africa plus other countries on the continent or beyond into the MEA region
• Understanding of various employment laws and their impact on HR matters.
• A track record of providing HR consultation to senior leadership on strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to partner within and outside of HR.
• Unquestioned integrity with assertiveness, presence, and confidence. Excellent influencing skills at all levels in the organization and extreme flexibility to be proactive in a fast paced, ever changing environment. Competence in making timely, effective, principles-based decisions.
• Tenacity and ability to build from scratch are imperative.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; must be an articulate and persuasive communicator including excellent presentation skills; analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Native level ENGLISH

The rare opportunity to change the world such that everyone around you is using the product you built. We’re not just another social web app, we’re moving real people and assets and reinventing transportation and logistics globally

• Engaged co-workers in a fun office environment.
• Employees are well rewarded with Uber perks

Uber is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. Uber does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law.