Elroy Vaz, Human Resources Manager

Elroy Vaz

Human Resources Manager

Yoko Eita Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Human Resources and Organisation development
Experience
21 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months

Human Resources Manager at Yoko Eita Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2014

•Developing HR Policies and Procedures
• Put in place a framework to support rapid mobilisation of resources Working with senior managers, coaching them and advising them on all people issues.
• Responsible for driving employee relations across areas managed.

ASSISTANT MANAGER at TECHNICAL PARTS COMPANY
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2012 to February 2014

• Serve as Human Resource Business Partner to 5 Business Units in the EPC, MEP business
• Support Business Unit Heads in Recruitment and Selection, compensation and Benefits, Performance Management, Learning and Development, Employee Relations and Employee Engagement activities.
• Provide counselling and assistance to business partners in the areas of HR policy and procedures, Benefits, Salary and administration.
• Serve as an active member of the business
• Facilitate the execution of Resourcing plans both directly and indirectly through external partnership teams as necessary.
• Leading a team of 3 direct reports

Human Resources Specialist at Abu Dhabi Land
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2009 to February 2012

This is a specialist role handling all Recruitment, Training, Employee Relations of
the company.
• Working on a Job Evaluation Review for the company in collaboration with Group
HR and Hay South Africa.
• Review of the Human Resource policies and development of policies for Recruitment,
Promotions, Staff Performance Management and Grievance and Discipline.
• Responsible for implementing Oracle HRMS-Version 12 R for the entire organization.
• Spearheading the implementation of ISO 9001: 2008 across the organization, working
with a cross functional team.

Senior Human Resources Officer at Aldar laing o''rourke
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • March 2007 to February 2009

•Played a key role in hiring of Construction staff from South Asia, GCC and Far east ( over 700 staff each year) \n•Identification of training needs, conducted extensive needs analysis with the Senior Management Team.( Over 14 \ndepartments) \n• Prepared the training calendar for the year, in collaboration with Project leaders, Senior Construction Managers \nand the Executive Director- Operations \n•Sourced vendors for various Construction and Behavioural training programs. \n•Evaluating feedback from programs and devising appropriate action plans. \n• Administration and education of Managers/ staff on use of the Performance Management System. ( Over 150 managers and 800 staff) \n• Review and development of the Graduate Engineer Trainee Program ( 15 Graduate Engineers each year) \n• Managed all employee relations issues related to grievances and disciplinary matters staff Probations, \nconfirmations, resignations and terminations.

Human Resources at Commercial Bank International
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2004 to February 2007

•Collaborate with Recruitment team to research and implement best Recruitment practises.
• Assisted Employee Relations with the development of Human Resource practises for banks
• Organizing the selection and implementation of suitable training program content, duration, delivery modes and vendors to address the learning & development needs pan-country. ( 80 banking programs, 55 behavioural related training )
• Developed structured training &development interventions specifically designed to respond to bank’s needs as well as create impact on the work environment.
• Monitored and ensured the staff specialized development programs achieve optimum performance.

Senior Officer- Human Resources at Citizen Bank
  • India
  • August 2002 to June 2004

·Supervise and co-ordinate entire recruitment process for clerical and officer staff. ·
Provide inputs for all middle and junior level behavioral training and management development programmes. ·

Responsible for monitoring and administering the Performance Management System August 2001 till July 2002

Education

Master's degree, Human Resources and Organisation development
  • at Bombay University
  • April 1998

Masters in Management Studies

Bachelor's degree, Commerce and Industrial Psycology
  • at Bombay University
  • June 1994

Obtained a First Class

Specialties & Skills

Facilitation
Training
Good Problem solving and decision making
Training and Facilitation Skills
Planning and Organising
MS Office 2007 and 2010

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Dubai Human Resources Forum
  • Active
  • June 2005
Emirates Toastmasters
  • Executive commitee
  • June 2009

Training and Certifications

Dip Trg& Dev ( Affiliated to American Society for Training and Development) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2007
Valid Until:
December 2009

Hobbies

  • Reading, listening to Jazz, Yoga meditation
    Completed the first degree of Toastmasters Communication and leadership track