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This role sits within the Dmart Operations organization and reports to the Regional Dmart Operations Director. The People Operations Manager is responsible for designing, operationalizing, and governing workforce operating models that directly impact store productivity, workforce stability, and cost performance across Pandora’s Dmart network in 11 countries. Unlike traditional People or HR roles, this position is embedded in frontline warehouse operations, with full ownership of how workforce structures enable operational performance at scale. The mandate is to transform a decentralized picker workforce into a standardized, performance-driven operating model that improves retention, productivity, and labor cost efficiency. This role acts as the regional owner of the frontline workforce operating model — covering hiring frameworks, onboarding execution, training effectiveness, productivity governance, performance progression, and compensation structures — ensuring workforce strategy is directly tied to operational outcomes such as pick productivity, order accuracy, attendance reliability, and store throughput.
Job Responsibility:
Workforce Operating Model Design & Governance: Design and implement the regional operating model for Dmart frontline workforce management, covering all lifecycle pillars including hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, progression, compensation governance, and workforce communication
Define operational labor standards and workforce deployment models aligned with store productivity targets and service levels
Establish regional governance mechanisms including operational KPIs, labor dashboards, performance cadences, and workforce cost monitoring with country Operations and local People teams
Standardize workforce practices across markets while adapting to local labor regulations, wage structures, and agency models
Workforce Productivity, Stability & Cost Efficiency: Own workforce performance metrics directly linked to store output, including productivity per labor hour, attendance reliability, attrition trends, and ramp-up speed
Quantify workforce cost drivers including hiring funnel efficiency, onboarding effectiveness, training investment, agency usage, and turnover replacement costs
Design and implement operational interventions to reduce early attrition (first 90 days), improve picker ramp-up time, increase productivity consistency across shifts and stores, optimize staffing mix between fixed and flexible labor models
Partner with store leadership to align workforce planning with demand volatility, peak events, and seasonal workforce scaling
Frontline Workforce Implementation & Scaling: Lead diagnostic-to-implementation programs across markets, including process mapping, pilot design, implementation playbooks, and regional rollouts
Ensure hiring channels, agency partnerships, and contract structures support operational flexibility and cost efficiency
Develop and deploy standardized onboarding and training frameworks focused on operational readiness, safety, and productivity outcomes
Establish training completion tracking and measure training impact through productivity, quality, and retention metrics
Performance Progression & Frontline Talent Development: Design transparent and operationally relevant progression pathways from Picker → Senior Picker → Store Leadership roles
Define eligibility criteria based on measurable operational performance, reliability, and leadership capability
Partner with store managers to identify high performers, succession pipelines, and promotion readiness
Implement structured performance improvement frameworks tailored to frontline operational roles
Develop engagement models suited for large, shift-based, blue-collar teams, ensuring accessibility, clarity, and motivation across diverse workforce segments
Compensation, Incentives & Workforce Engagement: Design and standardize productivity-linked incentive frameworks aligned with store performance and operational KPIs
Ensure compensation models balance productivity, fairness, compliance, and cost control across markets
Monitor fixed vs. variable pay mix and analyze correlation with workforce productivity and retention
Define scalable frontline communication structures including shift briefings, performance feedback loops, and workforce engagement mechanisms adapted to high-volume warehouse environments
Requirements:
8–10 years of experience in operations workforce management, frontline labor optimization, or operations-embedded people operations roles
Strong experience managing large, distributed blue-collar or hourly workforce populations in logistics, warehousing, retail, manufacturing, or similar operational environments
Deep understanding of frontline labor dynamics including hourly workforce engagement and retention drivers, minimum wage structures, shift premiums, and overtime economics, agency and flexible labor models, high-volume hiring funnel optimization, workforce scheduling and productivity management, large team communication and motivation strategies, labor compliance across multiple jurisdictions
Proven experience building scalable operational processes and governance frameworks across multiple countries
Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capability, with ability to translate workforce metrics into operational performance improvements
Strong stakeholder management across matrix organizations including Operations, People, Finance, and local leadership teams
Ability to operate in fast-paced, high-growth, operational environments with strong execution ownership
Bachelor’s degree required
Master’s degree preferred
Fluent English required
additional regional languages are a strong advantage