Group HR Manager
Elite
Total years of experience :36 years, 1 Months
Managing the end-to-end in-house talent acquisition function designed to source, engage and recruit top talent
globally including creating job descriptions and keeping up to date with business needs and market conditions.
▪ Taking responsibility for the evaluation and selection process, facilitating conversion offers, orientation days,
ensuring exceptional candidate experience and preparing experience success metrics for management to review.
▪ Working cross functionally as the HR with core business teams to deliver recruitment solutions to the core business while fostering a collaborative, high-performance, approachable and passionate team environment.
▪ Creating new recruitment procedures compliant with GCC and UAE Federal and Free Zone labor laws to
minimize litigation risks and to reduce the cost of external legal counsel; while updating existing employee relations, visa, immigration, grievances and redundancy procedures according to recent legislative changes.
Responsible for recruitment of expatriates and Qatari nationals, leading department restructuring, benefits
administration, and preparing audits compliant with internal Qatar Petroleum policies and Qatari labour laws.
▪ Creating succession and career development plans that comply with Qatari labour laws and strong relations with
external governing bodies like the Qatari Ministry of Labour and General Pension & Social Security Authority.
▪ Negotiated 200+ employment contracts annually including contractual terms, conditions levels, sign-on
bonuses, salaries, benefits packages, performance incentives, relocation costs, housing, and career growth plans.
▪ Oversaw Qatarisation recruitment programs while being responsible for various HR functions like L&D,
absenteeism management, redundancies, restructuring, redeployment and disciplinary investigations.
▪ Reduced benefits costs by 60% over a ten year period through meticulous recordkeeping, legal compliance and
ensuring that the company did not pay for benefits in cases where employees were ineligible.
Responsible for converting business objectives into recruitment plans and closely aligning them to the broader
business agenda, and holding recruitment discussions with hiring managers before starting the candidate search.
▪ Identifying role and candidate requirements, developing recruitment strategies, improving offer conversion rates,
delivering full compliance to the employer brand governance process, and ensure offer approvals are obtained.
▪ Reduced recruitment costs by 85% by reducing reliance on healthcare recruitment agencies and bringing
outsourced recruiting functions in-house, which reduced billable hours from 320 to less than 45 per month.
Started as an HR Assistant before becoming HR Recruiter after several promotions, created manpower planning plans and recruitment strategies, job descriptions, salary gradings, and full compensation and benefits packages.
Planning recruitment requirements in consultation with heads of the functional and operational divisions, while developing initiatives for improved productivity, employee welfare, retention rates and building capability.
Identifying staffing needs for various departments in offices and warehouses across Sweden, Germany and France, including mapping required skills for new positions while analysing existing competency levels.
Business Management, International Trade, Mathematics, Cultural Studies, Micro and Macro Economics, Finance, English