Assistant HR Business Partner

JOB PURPOSE

This role accelerates the People agenda by partnering with leaders and HR colleagues to implement effective people practices, ensuring our people live up to their potential and thrive at the workplace.

You’ll be part of a team that believes in doing work that matters — for people and the planet.

Because here, we don’t just hire for jobs. We invite you to be part of something bigger.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Track and report daily headcount, attendance, absenteeism, vacancies, and manpower movements.
• Support the factory HRBP with maintaining accurate people data to support UMS and site performance tracking.
• Conduct ER investigations, including human error-related cases, in line with company procedures.
• Administer the grievance management process, ensuring formal case documentation and timely investigations
• Act as the first point of contact for employee queries, requests, complaints, and ER issues
• Support compliance with Saudi Labor Law requirements through day-to-day HR operations.
• Monitor Saudization status and proactively flag risks or gaps.
• Support labor inspections, governmental audits, and compliance documentation.
• Employee lifecycle administration including onboarding, medical insurance, governmental platforms (e.g. QIWA) and exits.
• Apply and calculate overtime and compensatory off in line with approved policies.
• Provide accurate HR inputs to payroll and benefits processes.
• Support employee engagement and communication initiatives in collaboration with WPS.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related
• Minimum of 1 year of HR operational experience
• Preferably in FMCG or manufacturing
• CIPD or equivalent HR certification (preferred)
• Strategic breadth and systems thinking – you can think across functions and across time to anticipate change and prepare plans to help the business to grow long term
• Culture development – you will have experience of creating appropriate culture and behavior interventions that drive employee engagement, retention and performance
• Internal and External influencing – you will be comfortable with working with teams with differing priorities internally to bring them in to support change,

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.