People Solutions Manager

Our company:

Tokyo-headquartered Bridgestone Corporation is the one of the world’s largest manufacturers of tires and other rubber products as one in five vehicles in the world drives on our Bridgestone, Firestone or Dayton tires. We employ over 140,000 people around the world and sell our products in more than 150 countries. 

Bridgestone Middle East & Africa (BSMEA) operates from locations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Ivory Coast. From these locations BSMEA covers 68 markets.

Our Strategic Business Unit

Bridgestone EMEA operates in more than 60 countries and employs over 16,000 employees in its offices and plants:

• 9 Sales Regions with offices in Birmingham, Warsaw, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Bad Hamburg, Moscow, Johannesburg, and Dubai
• 14 plants in France (Bethune), Belgium (Lanklaar and Liege), Italy (Bari), Poland (Stargard and Poznan), Hungary (Tatabanya), Spain (Bilbao, Puente San Miguel and Burgos), South Africa (Port Elizabeth and Brits), Russia (Ulyanovsk) and a joint venture in Turkey (Izmit)
• A raw materials plant in Spain (Usansolo)
• A leading R&D facility in Italy
• State of the art proving grounds in Italy and Sweden
• The EMEA headquarters in Zaventem, Belgium.

Our tyres are sold under the Bridgestone, Firestone, Dayton brand for:

• Consumer / Passenger vehicles
• Commercial (TBR) vehicles
• Construction and off-the-road vehicles
• Tractors and agricultural machinery
• Motorcycles and scooters
• Motor sport
• Aircraft

In addition to our products, we also provide integrated fleet solutions as well as repair and maintenance services through our extensive fleet network.

Job purpose & Main responsibilities:

The People Solutions Manager is responsible for driving effective and strategic people solutions that align with the organization's objectives and foster a positive employee experience. This role entails implementing and managing a wide range of HR programs, policies, and initiatives to attract, develop, engage, and retain top talent while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This will include processes  across all BMSEA entities from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Ivory Coast. As an integral member of the BSMEA HR team the People Solutions Manager collaborates with cross-functional teams, provides expert advice, and leverages data-driven insights to optimize organizational performance and create a high-performance culture. This Includes work across multiple talent and organization performance areas including:

• Identifying critical workforce requirements (e.g., skills, competencies and performance outcomes) necessary to achieve current and future business results
• Career frameworks
• Career development
• Talent assessment
• Learning and development
• Performance management
• Engagement/Employee research
• Workforce and succession planning
• Leadership assessment and development
• Organization design and culture change
• Organization transformation and change management
• People/Talent strategy

Qualified candidates will demonstrate an excellent understanding of Human Resources practices, preferably within the MEA region, payroll systems and process improvement methods to deliver the transformation.

Requirements:

• Degree qualified in Human Resources, Business or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years Human Resources experience, preferably in the Middle East or N. Africa region.
• Proactively develops and implements system improvements.
• Excellent data analysis skills, including budget forecasting and reporting.
• Program Management experience.
• Exceptional communication skills and proven cross-cultural stakeholder management experience.
• Commercially orientated with a high sense of urgency.
• Advanced MS Office, particularly Excel.
• Fluency in English, with French or Arabic advantageous.

Bridgestone Behavior

• Agility – to work in a matrix and complex environment where change happens at a rapid pace
• Courage – to share ideas, think out of the box
• Ownership – to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role

Bridgestone Leadership Essence

• Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision:  Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
• Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others:  Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
• Promotes and enhances company culture:  Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
• Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity
• BOSS focused - serves the customers having the end users in mind:  Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage
• Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence:  Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits.  Understands emotions and their effects
• Intellectually curious in support of learning agility:  Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application
• Embraces and leads change and innovation:  Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization
• Identifies and develops organizational talent:  Attracts high calibre diverse talent , leads and guides others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives through on-going development and collaboration