HR Executive

As a Human Resources Executive, your primary goal is to help the company achieve its objectives by ensuring it has a skilled and effective workforce. This involves carefully selecting candidates with the right qualifications and experience. Your role encompasses the entire employee lifecycle, from recruitment to departure, including training, development, and managing performance, progression, and disciplinary issues.

Job Overview
As an HR Executive, you will need to:

• Understand the company’s goals and create policies to support them


• Develop job descriptions, person specifications, and job advertisements


• Oversee the application process, including shortlisting, interviewing, and notifying candidates


• Hire, train, and retain suitable staff


• Verify that new hires have the right to work


• Organize and sometimes deliver training, including inductions


• Manage staff welfare and administrative tasks


• Provide advice on compensation and benefits


• Conduct salary reviews


• Plan and strategize for immediate and future staffing needs


• Develop and enforce policies on working conditions, performance, and other HR issues


• Guide managers on implementing HR policies


• Collaborate with managers on staff performance, organizational structure, and health and safety


• Promote a culture of equality and diversity


• Negotiate with staff on pay, contracts, and other relevant issues


• Prepare staff handbooks, manage payroll (including wage allocations), and maintain employee records


• Interpret and advise on employment law


• Address grievances and enforce disciplinary actions


• Assess training needs in collaboration with departmental managers


• Handle work permit applications for third-country nationals


• Check rosters


• Manage registrations with Jobplus, Identita’, and other entities

Skills

• Business acumen and management capabilities


• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both Maltese and English


• Interpersonal skills for effective relationships at all levels


• IT and numerical proficiency, especially for payroll and benefits systems


• Organizational and planning abilities


• Analytical skills for interpreting data


• Integrity and approach ability


• Curiosity and the ability to challenge organizational norms


• Teamwork and collaboration skills


• Negotiation and influencing skills


• The ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks


• Leadership potential and cultural awareness


• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel


• Proficiency in Shireburn Indigo

Experience required

• At least three years of working experience in a similar role. Experience in the FMCG sector will enhance your chances of being selected for this challenging role.

Academic qualifications
A degree or similar qualification in relevant fields such as:

• Business or management


• Human resource management

A Master’s degree in HR or personnel management is advantageous but not required.

Since its inception in 2013, Dave’s Food Stores has set its sights on a single objective: to offer an unparalleled shopping experience to the Maltese Islands.

Nestled squarely in the Mediterranean with a vast array of cultural diversity, an ever-increasing appetite for great products and friendly, efficient staff that offer you, not only 24-hour in-store solutions, but an online shop that brings groceries to your door, exactly when you expect it. Furthermore, our local and international partners allow us to bring you the finest quality products, everyday needs, and household consumer goods that you could expect from any large continent supermarket, with of course, that warm Maltese smile.

Our continued commitment to ‘care for you’ is a promise that extends beyond just words and is measured by the satisfaction of our clients, the engagement we share with suppliers and ultimately in the way you experience your shopping with us.

With class-leading infrastructure, technological advancement and a team driven by foresight, experience and clear objectives, our future path is undeniably bright.

Boasting close to 20 stores and expanding rapidly, we are uniquely proud of our achievements, awards, daily feedback, and infrastructure we have built to serve you and the driving factor behind our efforts will remain underpinned by traditional values such as quality products, great service, a guarantee of fresh goods and solutions that make your life a touch easier.

daves cares about you!

Daves Food Stores - KMP-93814