HR Director
El SAMMAN HOLDING
Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months
- Manage overall HR Functions (Recruitment, OD, Training, Personnel, Compensation & Benefits.
- Create, review, and regularly update the organization’s HR policy, including adherence to Egyptian labor law, leave policy, compensation policy, disciplinary policy, performance assessment policy, and training policy.
- Develop various HR documents such as “manuals, templates, flowcharts, and employee handbooks.
Share business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect improvements in business objectives, productivity and development of HR within the company by:
• Manage recruitment & selection process and retain high performance employees.
• Manage personnel for all sites, develop daily operating and improve outputs.
• Improve and control payroll cycle and facilitate salary transfer.
• Creating and driving effective development, employee relations, and retention and reward programs.
• Assess business unit's HR training needs and conduct 1:1 and group training sessions as appropriate.
• Review and analyze business metrics including data on retention and employee experience in order to
recommend systemic improvements.
• Partner with the business to lead both annual and mid-year review processes, which focus on
performance management and talent development.
• Provide compensation support including salary planning, approval of salary actions, promotions and job re-leveling.
• Work with line managers and employees to address all types of employee relations issues, fairly
representing all interests.
• Leading a team of 22 people (6HR plus 16 Personnel professionals) providing full HR operational support
for all companies in many Destinations \{El Gouna, Taba, Makady and El Fayoum\}.
• Develops policy and directs and coordinates Human Resources & Administration activities, such as
employment, compensation and wages, labor relations, recruitment, termination, job evaluation,
promotion, benefits, staff housing, training, and employee services by performing HR duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.
Tasks achieved in many subsidiary companies of OHD group:
• Updating hierarchy (organization charts) and job descriptions across all levels (in El Gouna, El Fayoum and OHC). Preparing and updating employee handbook, policies, and procedures manual.
• Participating in updating salary and compensation & benefits structure packages (in all group).
• Achieved job analysis for Orascom Housing Community.
• Participating set restructure, succession planning and organizational planning including hiring & firing.
• Restructuring and upgrading staff housing and provided a new policy of staff housing.
• Create procedures and cycle of feeding payroll system monthly (for all group).
• Create documentation, procedures and cycle of EOS (for all group).
• Participating set new grading system and implementation new salary scale based on new grading system.
Operationally HR duties
• Supervise the daily operational activities of all destinations from an HR perspective.
• Conduct monthly regular visits to all destinations (Taba, Makady and El Fayoum )plus El Gouna to
conduct an internal audit on the HR functions.
• Support official and unofficial communication between top management and employees in all
departments.
• Monitor the company’s regulations re social insurance, job contracts and retirement with the personnel
department.
• Manage Recruitment and selection for all jobs in El Gouna .
• Investigate any administrative violations in coordination with the legal affairs department and make sure of implementing the company’s penalty policies.
• Keep all HR records, forms, data & organizational charts up-to-date.
• Develops and implements HR policies and employee contracts for local staff that are consistent with
company culture and local regulatory requirements.
• Support the development of supervisory and management personnel in the Destinations, through the
implementation of an effective training plan programs.
• Recruit, interview and select employees to fill vacant positions including preparing and negotiating and
finalizing job offers for senior levels.
• Conduct performance appraisal & provide advice to supervisors to evaluate the performance of their
subordinates.
• Develop and applies all techniques of job analysis, job descriptions, evaluations and grading.
• Retain a full set of the approved manpower budget and review recruitment requisitions, transfers,
resignations and termination notices and other related personnel actions to ensure that all departments
are in accordance with the approved manpower budget.
• Manage and guarantee monthly disbursement of multi-companies payroll, including benefits, social
• insurance and taxes to more than 6, 000 employees.
• Control payroll staff, including payroll supervisor and payroll Administrators.
• Critically review and analyze current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and
implement changes leading to best-practice operations.
• Process monthly payroll for Executive staff.
• Communicate actively with Operations, HR and Accounting to review cross-departmental impacts and
reconcile data sharing.
• Partner with HR to implementing and get more smoothly payroll and benefits system.
• Ensure system is updated to reflect our current employee base, including salaries, benefits, sick and
vacation time in line with contracts.
• Manage regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, vacation accrual, tax deductions, benefit deductions, etc.).
• Manage providing employees with monthly information about their salaries & benefits.
• Review and recommend changes in benefit programs.
• Provide training and development for payroll department staff.
• Keep informed of new trends, developments, laws, and regulations related to the administration of
compensation and benefits.
• Supervise and participates in the preparation and maintenance of all payroll and disbursement records,
reports and files, and in the processing and issuance of the payroll.
• Manage all employees’ salaries paying and follow up to solve any problem on time.
• Provide necessary support for payroll auditing to internal and external auditors.
• Interface routinely with Human Resources on employee benefits issues (deductions, end of services
payments, health insurance, etc.) to ensure timely and accurate processing.
• Work with other administrators to forecast staffing needs and develop staffing plans.
• Administrate and oversee orientation programs for new employees.
• Administrate employment contracts and supervise contract renewals and non- renewals.
• Manage and monitor yearly employee performance appraisal and ensure that supervisors have proper
training.
• Develop and implement procedures for the preparation and updating of job descriptions and employee’s
records.
• Work with finance to calculate cost estimates for compensation and benefit recommendations.
• Monitor employee retention and turnover through analysis of data and exit interviews.
• Keep employee records up-to-date by processing employee status changes in timely.
• Processes personnel action forms and assures proper approvals.
• Maintain budget spreadsheet that includes salaries, payroll taxes and allowances.
• Prepares paperwork required to place employee on payroll and create personnel file.
• Assists in hiring process by coordinating job posting, reviewing resumes, performing semi-interview and reference checks.
• Maintains workers and employees handbook with update resolutions and other pertinent information, as needed.
• Compile, maintain, file, and secure all physical and electronic reports, records, and other required documents.
• Supervise personnel records management and oversee compliance with the company records management program.
