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Role Overview
People Advisor – ME & APAC at Teneo. The role is based in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, supporting the Global People Team.
Company Overview
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm partnering with clients globally across five business segments: strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I. The firm has more than 2,000 employees located in 50+ offices around the world. Clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.
Role Purpose
The People Advisor is a pivotal member of the Global People Team, serving as a key collaborator with Business and Regional People Partners to drive talent strategy. The role provides guidance on performance and employment relations matters, implements and enhances key HR processes and initiatives across the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and enables the People Strategy through strong partnership and continuous development.
Key Responsibilities
Advisory & Guidance
- Advise employees and managers on HR policies and processes, integrating legislative knowledge and general best practice.
- Provide meaningful analytics to drive business improvement and seek opportunities to improve employee engagement, performance, and attrition.
- Act as a strategic observer for People Partners in the region, monitoring trends, providing insightful feedback, and identifying potential risks to ensure proactive and effective HR management.
Performance & Compensation
- Collaborate with People Partners on cyclical processes such as annual performance management and compensation planning, managing timelines, assisting with communications, overseeing completion rates, and recommending actions to ensure smooth delivery and quality assurance.
- Manage upward to People Partners regarding these initiatives, ensuring the People Partner is focused on providing strategic input and supported with practical delivery.
Employee Relations & Compliance
- Manage low to medium complexity employment relations cases from start to finish, partnering with key business stakeholders and the internal ER team to ensure compliance with legislation and internal policies.
- Conduct follow-up interviews with departing employees, review and analyze turnover data, and develop insights to share with People Partners.
- Recognize potential employment relations issues and escalate these as appropriate.
Engagement & Culture
- Drive the annual People Engagement Survey process by managing timelines, preparing communications, overseeing completion rates, reviewing and analyzing results, and developing insights to share with People Partners and business stakeholders.
- Support the planning and rollout of engagement initiatives in the region targeted at employee wellbeing and culture building.
- Support local learning and development needs through collaboration with the Global Learning team.
Stakeholder Management & Development
- Build relationships with key business stakeholders and enable the growth and development of team members and Talent Managers through coaching and sharing best practices on managing team members and dynamics.
- Work collaboratively with global and regional Talent Acquisition, People Operations and Learning teams on key overlapping touchpoints to have a cohesive approach to supporting the business and a positive employee experience.
Continuous Improvement
- Act as a continuous improvement and change champion, proactively identifying opportunities to improve or implement policies, processes and ways of working that enhance the People Strategy and improve employee experience.
Qualifications & Experience
- At least 4 years' generalist HR experience in professional services or financial services industry.
- Experience working in matrix organisations with multiple lines of responsibility and reporting.
- Strong knowledge of employment legislation across Middle East and/or APAC markets.
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business management, psychology or related field preferred.
- Local CIPD qualification is highly regarded.
Skills & Competencies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Analytical abilities and attention to detail.
- Project management and organizational skills.
- Proactive and strategic thinking.
- Risk management approach, recognising potential employment relations issues and escalating these as appropriate.
- Growing commercial mindset.
- Continuous improvement mindset – a proactive, adaptable, and agile collaborator.
- Demonstrates the agility and cultural awareness to adapt effectively across diverse markets, leadership styles, and organizational cultures.
- Ability to work seamlessly across multiple geographies and time zones.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Exemplifies integrity and discretion.