Group HR Director
AlOthman Holding Group
Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months
Group HR Director
Al-Othman Holding Company
Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Overseeing teams of HR providing HR functions (Strategically & Operationally) to more than 30 Companies & JV’s that have diversified businesses.
Few remarkable achievements:
• Enhanced the Policies & Procedures.
• Built up two departments: Organizational Development & Training & Development.
• Reviewed and improved employees KPI’s.
• Maintained Saudization for all companies and subsidiaries.
• Automated most of the HR manual functions through Oracle applications.
• Enhance/create JDs for over one thousand jobs.
• Review/Update the Salary Scale & Grades.
• Saved more than 30 million Saudi Riyals of employees’ wages utilizing government initiatives (HRDF & Tawteen).
• Started Career Development Plans for high-performance employees.
• Initiated Succession plans for Saudi workforce.
• Successfully covering workforce requirements / vacancies within short periods by diversifying the search mechanisms and engines.
• Trained more than 550 employees on General and Technical training (virtual / face to face).
• Prepared leadership program for high potential Saudi employees.
• Initiated Employee Happiness team.
Additional Responsibilities:
• Overseeing Legal and Leasing departments.
• Taking care of General Support Services group-wise (e.g.: procurement, contracts, security, etc).
Started developing process for both company and workforce with following objectives:
1. Full Compliance with the following:
• Ministry of Labor Regulations.
• Municipality licenses.
• Civil defense licenses.
• Saudization percentage.
2. Basic Infrastructure
• Effective Time management.
• Creating Job description for key areas.
• Create grading system and salary scale.
• Enhancing of accurate database.
3. Performance Management
• Planning, monitoring, Developing, rating, rewarding.
• Review & Evaluation on employee productivity.
• Identify strength & weakness of employee.
• Retirement plan.
4. Employee retention programs
• Retention of talented & productive employees.
• Compensation & benefits.
• Job satisfaction.
• Scholarship programs.
Carrying out the following tasks:
• Administer compensation, benefits and performance management systems, and safety and recreation programs.
• Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview and select applicants.
• Allocate human resources, ensuring appropriate matches between personnel.
• Provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion and employee benefits.
• Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, termination process, and administering disciplinary procedures.
• Advise managers on organizational policy matters such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes.
• Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
• Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.
• Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.
• Analyze training needs to design employee development, language training and health and safety programs.
• Maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates.
• Analyze statistical data and reports to identify and determine causes of personnel problems and develop recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and practices.
• Plan, organize, direct, control or coordinate the personnel, training, or labor relations activities of an organization.
• Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination.
• Investigate and report on industrial accidents for insurance carriers.
• Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
• Negotiate bargaining agreements and help interpret labor contracts.
• Prepare personnel forecast to project employment needs.
• Prepare and follow budgets for personnel operations.
• Develop, administer and evaluate applicant tests.
• Oversee the evaluation, classification and rating of occupations and job positions.
• Study legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess industry trends.
• Develop or administer special projects in areas such as pay equity, savings bond programs, day-care, and employee awards.
• Provide terminated employees with outplacement or relocation assistance.
• Contract with vendors to provide employee services, such as food service, transportation, or relocation service.
• Insure full adherence to ISO procedures.
Carrying out the following tasks:
1- Implementing, maintaining and recommending changes to the human resource policies and procedures manual as required.
2- Ensuring legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable Saudi legal requirements.
3- Follow up all government related activities with: SAGIA, HRDF, Seaport Authority, Labor Office, GOSI, Zakah, Passport Department, etc…
4- Ensure adherence to Security & Safety procedures.
5- Recruitment of Manpower (Local & International).
6- Maintaining the Saudization percentage.
7- Ensuring adequate visa availability.
8- Training & Development of current/new employees.
9- Ensuring planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results in appropriate coaching or disciplining of employees.
10- Conduct investigations against the violations & implement corrective actions.
11- Scheduling management meetings with employees in cases of dispute.
12- Hearing and resolving employee grievances.
13- Maintaining historical HR records by adhering to the existing filing and retrieval system.
14- Completing HR Department operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results.
15- Conducting and analyzing exit interviews.
Admin Activities:
Issue and renew company legal documents
Representing the company in government sectors
Prepared for Classification of contractors
Implementing Saudi legal requirements
Review, develop and implement the HR policies and procedures
Prepare & send monthly HR report to HO in Kuwait
HR Activities:
Implement Annual - Semi-Annual appraisal & evaluation for employees
Issue and renew employees contracts
Issue and renew permanent & visit visas
Provide necessary insurance to employees
Follow up of employees scheduled vacations
Prepare & send monthly HR report to HO in Kuwait
Solving all government related issues and develope the internal HR System
1- Deputy Quality Manager. Enhanced the Auditing division activities to Quality Department and divided it into 3 subdivisions.
2- HR Development Team Member: participated in many activities like:
Comprehensive assessment to the current situation.
Strategic plan for the development process.
Review and create company Vision, Mission, Procedures and Policies along with their forms.
Increase the influence of quality on the HR activity and link them together.
Review and enhance chain of command system.
Making Levels & Ranks for employees.
Recruiting & Continuous Improvement.
Preparation of Job Descriptions, etc…
Off-Campus, face to face program
Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) Management of a Sales Force. Object Oriented Programming (Java). Micro. & Macro Economics courses. Projects Management. Computer systems. Management Information Systems. E-commerce. Business Statistics. Quantitative Analysis for Business. Strategic Management. Internet Technology. Quality Management. Web Design. Productions and Operations Management. Knowledge Management. Database Management System. System Analysis & Design. Managing Enterprise System. Internet Services & Security.
