Regional Organization Development & Total Rewards Manager, North Africa
Savola Group
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
Overseeing the below responsibilities in 8 BUs employing 4000 employees in a region that covers Egypt, Algeria & Morocco:
• Regional HR Budget
• Manpower Planning
• HR Policies
• Organization Structuring & HC
• Compensation & Benefits
• Job Profiling & Grading
• Salary Surveying
• Performance Management
• Promotions and Career Planning
• Salary Structuring
• Annual Salary Review
• Bonus & Incentive Scheme
• Develop, improve and initiate effective HR Systems enabling the new positioning of the business
• Devise and implement a flexible organisation structure, set of People Development & Management Systems and action plans to motivate personnel to achieve objectives
• Create an organisational strategy focused encompassing rewards management, leadership development, communication and competency framework architecture
• Control HR budgets, allocating resources effectively and maximising cost efficiency wherever possible
• Prepare accurate and detailed annual operating plan forecasts and rolling forecasting
• Implement an effective staffing strategy and devising and delivering robust succession plans across the organisation to ensure a healthy staff talent pipeline
• Transform the company into a efficient, high performing business through improving strategy execution and proactively aligning a shared vision through a robust communication strategy
• Establish top down - bottom up cross communications to ensure clear, open engagement, to facilitate understanding of strategies and enhance organisational responsiveness towards any challenges
• Engender an organisational culture underpinned by value based leadership and decision making
• Re-position cultural values and company identity in order to provide a preset common ground and a alignment among teams to support the decision making process
• Provide an even career growth for the entire workforce whilst maintaining functional and technical competence and facilitating role rotation opportunities
• Performance managing staff in order to facilitate their ongoing professional development and improvement
• Recommend an innovative new balanced compensation and benefits management system, including a new pay strategy with a salary structure based on a new grading system
• Define retirement plans, reward and recognition, performance based reward allocation, plan, design and execute redundancies and separation packages
Working with the group central HR Organization to manage various HR functions across a plant of 650 employees. Scope of accountabilities ranged manpower planning, staffing, developing performance management system, learning and development, Compensation & Benefits and other HR initiatives among an enterprise employee engagement plan. Key projects:
• Leadership Development Program
• TNA based on Employee Skill Inventory vs. Job Skill Profile
• Grading Structure & Salary Structure
• Improve JD format, mapping to new JD, Reevaluation of Job Size, and mapping to the new grading structure
• Develop Succession Planning
• Corporate Induction & Employer Branding
• HR initiatives branding
• Deploy the Organization (HR) Pillar in TPM
• Enhancing the Performance Management System
• Staffing Strategy (role rotation / promote from within)
• Developing Recognition System
• Developing plant Communication Strategy.
• Meet with Union to study and resolve escalated claims.
Develop in conjunction with the Supply Chain lead a Trust Learning and Development Strategy to focus on developing, implementing and monitoring a wide Training & Development Program that is targeting 100% of employees to cover the gap in their technical, functional and people management skills and to impact their career progression and promotion criteria. Key achievements:
• Skill profiles for 100% of jobs, grading skill inventory for 100% of employees
• 3D Training program (technical, functional & people management skills)
• Sugar School
• OLMS Activation (Oracle Learning Management System).
• Forecast & Manage Training Budget.
• Develop alternatives Learning Channels / Systems such as coaching, e learning, job shadowing, One Point Lesson to support the workforce development benchmark
• Monitor contracts with external providers of mandatory training and ensure fit for purpose and value for money
Develop with the alignment HR director the company internal communication strategy to facilitate effective communication among the organization to promote our Employee Engagement Plan. Scope and Achievements:
• Planning & implementing various communication forums.
• Designing & Deploying internal communication campaigns.
• Designing the HQ Building internal branding to accommodate communications which will motivate and create an impact on the employees
• Deploying multiple direction communication channels (top-down, bottom-up and cross communication)
• Organize team building events to support the organizational developments
• Company newsletter, intranet, website …etc.
Ensure the smooth operation of communication networks in order to provide maximum performance and availability for the users, such as staff, clients, customers and suppliers.
ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES • Dates - SEPTEMPER 2007 • Name and type of organization - New Horizons Training Center • Certificate title - CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) ATTENDEE • Dates - SEPTEMPER 2008 • Name and type of organization - LOGIC • Certificate title - Completion of Effective Communication Skills • Dates - DECEMBER 2008 • Name and type of organization - Russian Culture Center • Certificate title - Adobe After Effects CS3 ATTENDEE • Dates - JANUARY 2009 • Name and type of organization - LOGIC • Certificate title - Completion of Business Writing • Dates - MARCH 2009 • Name and type of organization - LOGIC • Certificate title - Completion of HR - Competency Based • Dates - APRIL 2009 • Name and type of organization - LOGIC • Certificate title - Completion of Mind Mapping • Dates - March 2010 • Name and type of organization - Quest • Certificate title - Completion of Train the Trainer • Dates - April 2010 • Name and type of organization - Amideast on behalf of ETS TOEFL • Certificate title - International TOEFT iBT (SCORE: 94) Curriculum vitae of SLAH ELDEAN, AHMED • Dates - SUMMER 2006 • Name of the organization - Regional Informatics Center in AAST • Sector of training - MICRO CONTROLLERS • Dates - SUMMER 2007 • Name of the organization - Regional Informatics Center in AAST • Sector of training - EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN