Rafik Nakhla, Director of Human Resources and Administration

Rafik Nakhla

Director of Human Resources and Administration

Chrome

Location
Egypt - Cairo - New Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Quality Management
Experience
51 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :51 years, 10 Months

Director of Human Resources and Administration at Chrome
  • Egypt
  • My current job since July 2020

Chrome is a Project Management and Facility management Company in Egypt Managing HR Admin and IT function, reporting directly to CEO with eight reports
•Updating HR Policies and procedures and establishing COVID 19 work policy streamlining work during pandemic
•Managing the talent acquisition process reducing time to hire and cost per hire as well as building presence in the market place attracting unsolicited talents and building an inhouse candidate database
•Spearheading a cost reduction exercise resulting in substantial saving on company expenses
•Managing administrative tasks
•Managing the process of ISO audit and certificate renewal achieving renewal twice

Group HR Manager at A&P Group
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2015 to January 2020

A&P is a multinational Electro-Mechanical construction firm operating in the Middle East Managing HR Function at the corporate level for all operations across the Middle East reporting to CEO, with four direct reports
•Leading the digital transformation across the various operations by successfully migrating from an excel based employee data base to SAP HR, reducing the number of excel sheets and centralizing HR information in one source, maintaining updating the module, and training staf on the use
•Establishing the Group HR strategy to meet A&P requirements
•Centrally conducting and managing the talent acquisition to meet project stafing requirements applying various strategies with an aim of reducing cost of recruitment, negotiating benefits with senior hires. Reducing time to hire in some cases to one week
•Managing the process of overseas recruitment campaigns, coordinating with agencies requirements and following up mobilization
•Drafting the HR policies for the integrated management system, and rolling out across operations, as well as developing employee induction program and drafting employee handbook
•Developing and updating Job Descriptions
•Leading the in-boarding and induction of new hires

Director of Corporate Services at TAMAS Projects
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2013 to February 2015

TAMAS is a Local Infrastructure construction firm operating in the UAE Managing Five Divisions within TAMAS Projects; Human Resource, Administration, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, Health and Safety and Environment, and IT, reporting to CEO, with 12 direct reports
•Conducting and managing the recruitment activities to meet project stafing requirements as well as staf mobilization and deployment, negotiating benefits with new hires. Managing the process of overseas recruitment campaigns
•Designing the authority matrix for all Senior Manager streamlining processes
•Reviewing Standard Operating Procedure manual, reducing redundancy of activities
•Ensuring that HSE measures are in place across various sites, inspection carried regular and activity documented properly
•Drafting new policies to cover recruitment, entertainment, business travel, and others.
•Managing staf training requirements which included identifying training needs selecting providers and administering the attendance
•Updating HRIS to include alerts on important expiries, excessive absenteeism, automating the issuing of documentation
•Reviewing Quality Manual, HSE manual, waste management plan to ensure compliance with local regulations and clients' requirements and third-party inspection
•Managing the processes of Government relation ensuring compliance with requirements for application and renewals of various licenses and permits
•Streamlining the labor and visa application by acquiring the printing system in house and Managing the process of quota application, new labor permit and visa application as well as the renewal avoiding unnecessary fines and system block
•Managing company labor camps, auditing their conformance to legislation and responding to inspection by various authorities

Vice President Human Resources and Administration at Projacs International
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2008 to September 2012

Projacs is a Pan-Arab Construction/Project Management company. Reporting to the CEO, with 10 Direct reports across the region Managing the HR function across 18 ofices distributed in 14 countries in the Middle East region; Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, working closely with Area Managers, local HR implementing and updating policies and procedures, acting as adviser to local management on HR issues
•Defining and implementing the HR strategy in consultation with the CEO
•Participating in the implementation of web portal ERP (ProMIS) across the operations as well as participating in its upgrade, spearheading the deployment of HR module, as well as recommending updates to the system to fit the HR requirements, reinforcing paperless transactions
•Reviewing and updating Job description manual, salary scale and HR policies, recommending new benefits rewarding loyalty and long service
•Designing a 360 degree evaluation system as well as developing its Behavioral Anchored Scale
•Managing staf career path along with training requirements, and mobilization of staf across the various branches
•Using qualified unsolicited CVs received to create on ProMIS an online CV database from and actively involved in recruiting technical and administrative staf across the operation
•Negotiating and Formalizing agreements with several HR service providers as HR online databases, recruitment agencies, health insurance, life insurance, pension providers
•Negotiating and administering the health care benefits with service providers, and health claims maintaining cost of service within acceptable limits by CEO
•Writing down HR policy manuals for three sister companies as well as providing HR consultation to company's clients including acting as a project manager in some assignments which included coordinating with the consultants following and evaluating the deliverables in projects that involved updating HR policy and procedures, developing Job descriptions, and job evaluation matrix, proposing a grading structure and salary benchmarking
•Defining training needs across all job function in the organization, specifying various career paths and competences needed for each job on the hierarchy
•Designing and delivering several Management training courses under the umbrella of Projacs Training and Development Unit

Training and HR Consultant at Self employed
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 1991 to January 2008

Education

Master's degree, Quality Management
  • at The University Of Wolverhampton
  • September 2001

carried several research projects to name some: Motivational Profile of Students joining a professional certificate HR Audit Quality costing in the garment Industry Strategic planning of a trading organization beside my final dissertation covering the applicability of EFQM in the private sector context

Specialties & Skills

Career Management
Policy Writing
ERP design
Performance Reviews
Training Of Staff
GO (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
COORDINATING
SCALE (MAP)
SOURCE (GAME ENGINE)
CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT
COLLABORATION
GRADING (LANDSCAPE)
JOB DESCRIPTIONS

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