Sr. Human Resources
Arabsat
Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months
Core Responsibilities
HR Policy Development
Participates in designing HR policies and procedures in line with changing organizational and individual employee needs.
Participates in implementing and ensuring that the industry best practices are introduced and institutionalized throughout the organization.
Implements HR procedures in an efficient and effective manner.
Recruitment
Develops and maintains relationships with head-hunters, recruitment agencies and top universities in the regional to seek support and facilitate hiring for vacancies including candidate applications, interviews, evaluation and selection.
Prepares budgets and projections for recruitment.
Performance and Rewards
Manages the annual increments and salary adjustment cycles in liaison with all Sectors.
Provides specialist insight in revising salary and benefits surveys in order to ensure that the organization salary and benefits schemes are in line with the competitive market and economic trends.
Manages the performance management activities for the organization employees including performance planning & monitoring, end of year performance assessment and performance development.
Career Management
Implements and manages the career management framework for developing the organization future leaders and maintaining a healthy talent pool.
Participates in managing the succession planning process.
Training and Development
Identifies individual training needs for each employee based on performance appraisals in coordination with department/function heads.
Formulates annual training programs and budgets for all employees.
Develops effective behavioral and technical training programs in collaboration with the organization departments.
Reviews the improvement in employee performance levels based on training provided to him and submit reports to the Director with the output and recommendations.
Manpower Planning
Prepares the annual manpower planning report in coordination with all departments.
Continuous Improvement
Supports the seniors in building network with HR professionals outside the organization through conferences, knowledge sharing forums etc. in order to be updated on new HR systems, competitor's initiatives, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
Recruitment and Selection:
• Contributed significantly in developing a functional strategy including plans, forecasts and procedures for recruitment and selection. Provided subject matter expertise to ensure hiring the best fit.
• Offered strong administrative support throughout entire recruitment cycle and used a variety of selection tools/ techniques to ensure recruiting quality talent for sales and pre-sales functions.
• Expedited the recruitment function - sourced and screened candidates for basic compliance to prescribed KPI’s, presented them to Hiring Manager for interview and subsequent selection.
• Explored and developed various recruitment channels like online job-portals, recruitment agencies and vendors to develop a pool of qualified candidates in advance of their need.
Administration:
• Collaborated with Europe Office to ensure uniformity, integrity and seamless execution of all planned policies and strategies.
• Offered organization, coordination and direction to all office operations by devising plans/ budgets, allocating resources/ supplies, measuring results and making mid-course corrections to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
• Monitored staff, work procedures/ processes to validate compliance to all organizational policies and methodologies. Served across a variety of administrative functions in sync with predefined SLA.
• Managed and administered databases, developed and maintaining files/ folders, e-files and records in line with standard operating procedures whilst maintaining extreme confidentiality and job integrity.
• Endeavored strategic contracts/ tie-ups with overseas agencies or companies - explored and opted for vendors with best in class service while negotiating fiscally profitable terms.
• Summarized critical business data into reports that include statistical information as well as charts, graphs, and trends for strategic analysis and interpretation by senior management.
Highlights:
• Played a critical role in developing and implementing a comprehensive ERP program that enables automation, improves efficiency and speed of critical business processes.
Key Responsibilities:
Training & Development:
• Chalked out training calendar and organized training programs to commission learning interventions that facilitate ongoing, long-term improvement of skills/ performance for employees at all levels.
• Systematized training and development logistics, organized resources like materials/faculty in addition to time scheduling with close tabs on assigned budgets and deadlines.
• Developed evaluation techniques to assess the effectiveness of training programs; prepared requisite reports and presented the same to management for review.
• Established strategic initiatives like outreach/ rehabilitation programs, seminars, workshops, lectures and education programs to institute a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
Recruitment:
• Conferred with business heads and outlined precise manpower requirement along with proposed budget and expected time frames to effectively meet organization’s manpower needs.
• Managed various facets of a recruitment function - sourced resumes, short-listed candidates, facilitated interviews and organized all documentation involved for on-boarding the candidates.
Administration:
• Presented organization, coordination and direction to all business operations while ensured strict compliance to all organizational policies and methodologies.
• Served HR administrative support to employees by processing and facilitating visa/ work-permits including visa/ passport renewals, medical and accommodation among others.
• Prioritized assigned tasks to meet multiple deadlines; routinely updated seniors on various office issues along with recommendations on process enhancements.
Key Responsibilities:
• Played a critical role in administering high quality and cost-effective recruitment function to acquire quality talent for clients like Riyadh Bank, Alinma Bank and Saudi Hollandi bank among others.
• Worked in close coordination with functional heads to anticipate manpower requirements as well as ascertain that the organization has required skills to meet current and future goals.
• Involved in high volume recruitment campaigns - participated in career days jointly with client organizations. Managed all facets of recruitment process to ensure hiring best possible talent.
• Streamlined internal recruitment and selection process; advertised job-openings internally and encouraged employees to move in an upward curve by advising on skill/ performance enhancement.
• Researched and identified different avenues like advertising, online job-portals, recruitment agencies and vendors to support recruitment needs of the organization.
