Employment Type: Full-time & Permanent
Location: Dubai, UAE
Salary: Competitive, DOE + performance-based bonus - 0% tax environment + Equity participation.
About Cobblestone Energy
Cobblestone Energy is an energy trading company specialising in the European Gas and Power markets. Established in 2017, we are shaping the future of global commodity trading with a focus on deep analytics and technological innovation. Our success is driven by our people, whom we back with real responsibility from the start. At Cobblestone Energy, excellence is valued and extraordinary talent from around the world is welcomed. Our flat organisational structure encourages a culture of innovation, granting team members autonomy and ownership of their work.
Cobblestone Values
- Lifelong learning with continuous reflection
- Independent thinking through a meritocracy of ideas
- The team is more important than the individual.
- Being the best in any market we enter
- Hiring and keeping only the most effective people
- Others must benefit from our existence.
Job Description
As our People & Culture Specialist, you'll be a major cornerstone of our team. Your mission will be to drive employee engagement and nurture a high-performance environment.
What we offer in this role
- A full-time position in our team, reporting directly to the CEO
- Committed and remarkably talented colleagues.
- Competitive compensation dependent on your experience and contributions
- An exciting and challenging role where you will play a big part in shaping our future
- Opportunity to work on new projects from scratch and make independent decisions.
- Equity participation, ensuring aligned long-term interests.
Responsibilities
- Create and nurture a positive and engaging environment where employees feel valued, supported and motivated
- Build and maintain a distinctive company culture that aligns with our business goals and appeals to ‘A’ players
- Invest in continuous growth and development of our employees
- Foster leadership qualities throughout the team to reinforce our culture
- Align people strategy with our overall business objectives
- Work with our recruitment team to develop strategies for attracting top talent
Requirements
- Passionate about understanding people and ready to be a steward of our culture
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in psychology, or a related field
- 2-3 years of experience in related field
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on building relationships
- Fluency in English (both written and verbal)
- Proven track record of planning, leading, and executing high-impact Culture Change initiatives with strong employee buy-in Adaptability and comfort working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- A strategic thinker – has an ability to focus on the end goal and ensure that every activity and approach is directed towards this goal
- A creative mind – will innovate with approaches and engagement techniques
- A relationship builder – will listen to the needs of the team, industry and work collaboratively
