HR Executive - IKEA Cairo Festival City

About the role

The Store Admin & HR Executive supports HR business partners and keeps human resources running smoothly within the IKEA store in Cairo Festival City. The role works directly with new joiners, handles HR enquiries, keeps accurate records, ensures compliance with labor laws and coordinates outsourced employment contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Induction and onboarding: meet new joiners on their first day, prepare their induction pack and give them badges, uniforms, locker keys and access cards; work with the HRSS team so their user and email accounts are set up and shared with line managers.
• HR support and communication: share store policies, procedures and announcements, answer employee queries with the store HRBP, report issues and recommendations to the HRBP, and help line managers apply HR policies.
• Coordinate travel and hotel arrangements for employees on emergency leave, keep records for disciplinary meetings and event documentation, and review and stock stationery and negotiate vendor prices.
• Monthly consolidation of payroll and leaves reports after checking store exceptions daily, and maintain records of attendance, overtime, turnover, sick leave, recruitment tracker, nationality mix and holidays.
• Prepare PowerPoint slides for meetings, take notes, circulate them and produce KPI reports.
• Organize employee engagement activities and social events such as the annual party, and follow up on probationary reviews and contract renewals.
• Archive office documents, support department managers with audit preparation and respond to auditor queries.

Required profile

• High school or trade school graduate; a bachelor's degree in business administration is preferred.
• 3 to 4 years of experience in a similar role, ideally as an HR Generalist.
• Good command of English and strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of labor laws and HR policies; knowledge of country labor laws is a plus.

Required skills

• Proficiency with MS Office; familiarity with SAP is preferred.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.