VP Talent Acquisition
MDC BMS - A Mubadala Company
Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months
- Transferred within the Mubadala group to a newly established shared services company, to extend my expertise in Talent Acquisition across multiple companies.
- Currently responsible for the recruitment activities in Masdar and the shared services company (MDCBMS).
- My role involve the re-engineering of the recruitment process, team building and delivering quality recruitment services within the Mubadala group.
- Creating and implementing successful approaches to achieve internal staffing goals & deliver on target staffing plans. Managing the 360 hiring process for the 5 business units within Masdar. This includes the sourcing and onboarding of candidates.
- Developing the SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for Recruitment and Talent Acquisition.
- Managing a Team of 2 Sr. Recruiters and 1 Coordinator
- Managing key relationships with Masdar management, employees and candidates. Working closely with concerned department managers to ensure staffing requirements are met on a timely and efficient manner.
- Responsible for the creation of innovative programs, events and campaigns to recruit the highest caliber of local and international Candidates, including innovative use of our online careers portal and management software.
- Developing detailed Job descriptions and specification in line with Hay grading system and job scale.
- Candidate Management throughout the process from sourcing, interviewing, assessments up to contract signing.
- Developing a PSL of agencies and outsourcing service providers.
- Initiating new candidates’ assessment centers i.e. (Ability test, Psychometric assessment, English and Arabic Assessments.)
- Identifying point of contact in Universities to build a pipeline of fresh graduates and to participate in career fairs.
- Effectively utilizing online recruitment options such as social media platforms including but not limited to; LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, International Job Portals and networking forums.
- Assisting in the improvement of the Masdar’s employer attractiveness by recommending new recruitment hiring methods across marketing and branding.
- Maintaining abreast of job knowledge by participating in careers opportunities fairs, maintaining personal networks, seminars and networking events.
- Preparing related hiring reports on internal statistics in alignment with Masdar’s hiring protocol. Ensuring the relevant usage of all detailed job descriptions and other necessary documentation in alignment with our international recruitment departments.
I am currently recruiting Top Talented UAE Nationals and Expats to the following 5 core businesses of Masdar beside the corporate functions:
1. Clean Energy
2. Special Projects
3. Masdar City - Real Estate Development
4. Masdar City - Free Zone
5. Brand and Sustainability
Key areas of Recruitment and Talent Acquisition are:
• Real Estate Development and Investment
• Project Delivery
• Project Management
• Business Development
• City Design and Sustainable planning
• Facilities Management
• Strategy and Investment
• Energy Asset Management
I was part of the start-up Leadership team to launch the Energy / Oil & Gas Practice of 2 main brands for SThree group in the MENA region, covered both Client & Candidate Acquisition Strategies:
1) Progressive GE
2) Huxley Associates
- Responsible for the recruitment life cycle of our Oil and Gas Key clients, covering permanent and contracts hires.
- Responsible for jobs qualification with the hiring manager to better understand their needs and building good relationships with candidates and managers throughout the recruitment process to give them the best experience.
- Internally: Reports into the MENA regional Director and dotted line to the Global Director of BD.
- Monitoring the business performance and internal team KPIs through weekly, monthly and quarterly reported to the key stakeholders in the business.
- Externally: Responsible for SLAs, progress reports and review meetings of our Key clients
- Sourcing candidates through international E- recruitment tools, job boards and networking with the industry professionals.
- Responsible for Qualifying candidates against specific roles and prepare them for the final technical interviews with the hiring managers.
- I have a strong experience in relocating expats to the Middle East (especially Saudi and UAE) successfully by knowing their motivations and interests to move jobs and by providing them with the right information about the region.
- Working independently on my own positions and monitoring the team performance as well.
- Leading a team of Recruiters (5 different nationalities) and providing them with technical training, recruitment best practice, setting their KPIs and Targets.
- Successfully managed Localization / Nationalization programs i.e. (Emiritastion - Saudisation - Qatarisation).
- Currently recruiting for the world largest Oil & Gas companies including ( EPCM Contractors, E&P, NOCs, IOCs and consultants)
Key achievements:
- Won PSL status with Mega Oil & Gas clients to provide permanent and contract staff across the MENA region.
- Set up contracts solutions for the company in UAE, KSA, Oman, Egypt, Kurdistan and Algeria to provide contract staffing business through local partners.
- Successfully Managed and delivered an RPO project for Saudi Aramco (2012 )
15 nos. Executive level positions (Expats) reporting directly to the CEO and Sr. VP at Aramco
Agreed the commercial terms and milestones of the project
End to End project from Planning to Completion
Agreed the commercial terms and milestones of the project
Managed the delivery plan and established the recruitment process internally and with the client stakeholders
- Successfully managed and delivered large campaigns on behalf of ADNOC affiliated companies (Zadco, Gasco, Takreer) (2011 and ongoing), covering Scarce positions across “Drilling, Subsurface, HSE, Operations AND Engineering).
- Successfully placed several positions within PMC & EPC Power projects (CCPP, Power stations & sub-stations), across Project management, Commissioning, Installation, Erection, DCS & Controls.
• Managed recruitment requirements of many companies across the region of MENA starting from manpower planning, setting job description, screening resumes, short listing candidates, conduct interviews, packages negotiation till deployment of the most qualified candidates.
• Responsible for Business development and client management i.e. (regular visits to clients, generating leads, contact new clients to offer our services).
• Successfully deployed executive managers for multinational companies in different disciplines (Oil & Gas Engineering, Construction, Steel manufacturing, Refineries, Petrochemicals and some Governmental ministries in the gulf).
• Manage a team of Consultants in different locations (USA, Bahrain, KSA, Jordan & Belgium).
• Managed many HR Consulting projects for multinational companies operates in the region of MENA i.e. (organization restructuring, job analysis, job design, compensation & benefits structuring, manpower plan for mega projects, etc.)
• Worked in all GCC countries and gained great experiences in labor laws implementation and fair employment trends in the region.
• Assist the HR Project Manager in the day-to-day recruitment activities.
• Reported directly to the HR Project Manager r and managed a Recruitment & HR operations team of 20 professionals reporting to me directly.
• Interview, Hiring and outsourcing of personnel from partners’ worldwide.
• Arrange, conduct interviews in co-operation with managers and support staff. Follow up and maintain flow within the hiring process.
• Investigate options for recruitment (e.g. advertisement, university recruitment, recruitment agencies and retained assignments) and selection.
• Preparing Job description / role profile.
• Job analysis.
• Assist Line managers in the preparation of the annual manpower plan.
• Assist and support the implementation of the man power budget.
• Receive, sort and respond to all job applications.
• Prepare shortlists of qualified candidates for referral to the requesting departments
• Assessing suitable CV’s and distributing among appropriate managers.
• Liaise, advice and support managers within the Company through all stages of the recruitment process.
• Compensation and employees benefits (offers, contracts, etc.).
• Annual leaves, Emergency leaves, R&R (rest & Recreation) and terminations.
• Staff release and transfers among various CCC projects.
• Planning and allocation of manpower among project departments.
• Seminars and training participants’ schedules.
• Personnel performance sheets, appraisals and evaluations (Performance Management System) (annual, semiannual and monthly performance tracking system).
• Placing adverts.
• Contract negotiation, subsequent paperwork and contract finalization.
• Managed recruitment agencies worldwide.
• Extend employment offers in line with candidates’ relevant experience, company pay scale and grading structure to ensure the concept of equal employment opportunity.
• Using the global HRIS to view updates with the group HR and keep personnel records for relocation option for personnel worldwide.
• Review, check and approve manpower suppliers / recruitment agencies invoices.
• Attend client’s (Shell / KBR) meetings regarding manpower and recruitment plans.
• Responsible for all cash functions at branch and to handle all financial transactions e.g. cash & checks deposits, withdrawals… etc. & ATM machine.
• Distribute duties among subordinates.
• Responsible for the vault’s cash balance and the demand of supplying cash from the treasury group & central vault head.
• Ensure safety in branch and the proper implementation of codes of conduct.
• Check client’s files account opening to confirm that all documents, collaterals and securities are obtained in compliance with bank’s requirements.
• Selling bank's products through the daily interacting with clients.
• Posting jobs advertisings on the web.
• Reviewing candidates' resumes to select the most suitable for the Job.
• Interviewing & short listing candidates.
• Negotiating packages
CIPD Level 3