Vice President HR
Zahid Group
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :37 years, 10 أشهر
A proven, Human Resources Leader, positioned to effectively contribute to a challenging, professional, creative and rewarding environment, delivering measurable results with quality and integrity.
Recognized by my peers for facilitating change and creating cultures with high employee engagement.
Successful in both strategic and tactical delivery of organizational objectives, combined with strong business acumen together with an excellent accomplishment record.
Core strengths:
• General Management
• Leadership
• Nationalization (Saudization)
• Project & Portfolio Management
• Financial & Investment Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Technology
• Customer focused
• Consultancy & Relationship Management
• Strategic Planning
A catalyst for innovation with a focus on building strategic relationships with stakeholders, re-engineering business processes and creating HR strategies.
Primary goal is to support subsidiary companies to meet current performance goals and expand future business potential
Value added includes the institutionalization of subsidiary and group activities, integrated strategic planning and the introduction of processes to ensure better cohesion within the group’s various industries and divisions. This has resulted in consistent year-on-year growth in bottom line performance and KPI”s
Responsibilities for Nesma Group include:
o Information Technology (Strategic role;IT Security; ERP)
o Research & Business Development
o Project Management (of special projects)
o Human Resource Development including Saudization, Training and Career Development, and Scholarships
o Corporate Investment Analysis
o Quality Assurance
o Administration & Maintenance
o Corporate Social Responsibility
Oversee 35 Subsidiary companies in Saudi Arabia and abroad and across diverse industries. Meet on a quarterly basis to ensure target KPI’s are progressing as budgeted
Responsible for all HR activities including Recruitment & Nationalization, Training & Development and the Nesma Training Center
Responsible for preparation and monitoring of Nesma Holding Annual Budget and Head Office Construction project
Served as Chairman of the Board of Environmental Services Development (ESD) Company, and Nesma Recycling. Chairman of Namma Digitec FZE (UAE), which has evolved from a start-up in 2006 to operations today in three countries. Shareholder representative in Jeddah Bio City Executive Committee, as well as ReAya Holding. Board Member of RETHAB Company among other companies, Board Member of various companies in Czech Republic, Bosnia and Croatia, as well as Nesma Batterjee, and First Contracting
Chairman of the Board of Nesma Recycling Company which includes Power Generation and Metal, Paper and Plastic Recycling Divisions. Have maintained continuous year-on-year growth in both, sales and profitability
Established IT Department and responsible for all Information Technology solutions at Labbaik. Accountable for timely and cost-effective delivery of quality-driven, customer-centric IT solutions
Established and managed internal and external data centers with appropriate service level agreements, covering reliability, availability, performance, scalability and Quality Assurance
Implemented first integrated e-government project in Saudi Arabia for Ministry of Interior Domestic Hajj Permit System which allowed the private sector to issue permits by conducting a real time check of the Ministry's IBM DB/2 database. High level of security and integrity required
Responsible for $3.2 Million annual IT Budget
Responsible for data integrity, overall security, business continuity planning, and research and development
Project Managed several large-scale projects for KSA Ministry of Interior as client
Introduced and applied Rationale Methodology (RUP) and UML (Unified Modelling Language) techniques to all Development projects
Management of in-house and out-sourced projects including hosting, application development, deployment, web site (www.labbaik.com) development and content management, e-business, infrastructure and architecture
Accountable for multi-million dollar budget to ensure that IT solutions are aligned with business requirements
Prepared Labbaik corporate business plan and was responsible for technical and business-related feasibility studies
Headed team to conduct due diligence to justify venture capital investment
Conducted extensive research in establishing various IT-based solutions such as call centers, secure data transfer, RFID/Smart cards, online recruitment systems, and GIS
Responsible for setting up Taqneen (IT entity) to provide IT products and services to several companies including Labbaik, Dyafat, Dar-Al-Ahdaf, Al-Kawader and Rasim
Feb 1998 - Oct 2001 Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Chief - Systems Engineering & Architecture
Led Cost Center to research and recommend strategies and techniques for the effective development and delivery of business solutions
Mandate was to facilitate, assist, enable and support the Systems Development department, consisting of more than 110 developers, by establishing benchmarks, standards, methodologies, metrics, tools, templates, techniques and best practices
Focused on establishing effective infrastructure for corporate-wide e-commerce and to facilitate Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI)
Established OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) strategy and standards, corporate Data Warehousing guidelines, and e-commerce / Web-enablement strategy
Established business-oriented IT Metrics for most IT functions, to enhance quality and productivity and to help measure and contain costs
Responsible for Data Administration and for establishing a central repository of data and process architectures. Served as airline representative on IATA IMC (Information Management Committee) Working Group on IT Architecture
Led cost center team to achieve ISO 9002:2001 certification
Jun 1999-Mar 2000 Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Manager Corporate Year 2000 (Y2K) Office
Mandate was to ensure corporate-wide Y2K readiness safely, on time and within budget for all aircraft, IT Systems, facilities and equipment worldwide
Responsible for all corporate Year 2000 projects and involved in establishing and tracking Year 2000 Strategy, corporate and divisional plans, Business Continuity Planning and Supply Chain coverage for the organization
Official airline representative at IATA Industry-wide Y2K meetings in Geneva/Brussels/Montreal
1995–1997 Concordia University Montreal, Canada MBA Degree Cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.87 (out of 4.00) Elected to lifetime membership of Beta Gamma Sigma (the honor society of AACSB accredited business programs)
1981–1986 University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran,Saudi Arabia Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Management (Honors)
