Senior HR Consultant
Freelance
Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months
• Providing Compensation & Benefits Strategy Consultation and Operational Human Resources Outsourcing services to Large Companies, Start-ups & SMEs in the Middle East & India.
• Recent Project: Review, design and propose new compensation and benefit structure, organization restructuring and job description review for Qatar Nakilat - Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Under consulting agreement with Raufar Turnaround Specialists Private Limited, Mumbai).
• Electronic Retailer: Established Human Resources Processes, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Sales Remuneration Structure for electronics retailer in India that had exponential staff growth due to business expansion.
• Successfully introduced the market pay system by facilitating market benchmarking of salaries and benefits and developed reward strategy.
• Conducted benchmarking analysis and developed the salary structure for Group's India Engineering Office.
• Increased employee satisfaction score on pay practices by linking bonus and rewards with employee performance matrix (pay at risk).
• Achieved substantial savings for the group by directly dealing with insurance companies for employee benefit related insurance coverage from year 2013 onwards.
• Conducted and facilitated communication sessions to various stake holders, management and employees regarding reward structure and pay strategies.
• Provided pay advisory service to stake holders, managers and department heads.
• Incorporated various compensation & Benefits analytics in HR dashboard reports to analyze workforce trends, employee performance, turnover rates, and other relevant metrics.
• Handled the classified / confidential matters of top executives for the group (CEO, VPs and Directors) including payroll, hiring and separation.
• Successfully reviewed and launched the HR Policy manual by benchmarking with industry best practices (in year 2016 and 2017 - almost 50+ policies and processes were reviewed and finalized).
• Achieved the compliance target by designing, implementing and communicating the compliance policies (Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy, Business Gifts, Conflict of Interest Policy etc.).
• Designed and implemented new grievance and progressive disciplinary system, Human Rights and Labour standard policies for the group.
• Successfully introduced Promotion policies, reward and pay at risk policies and processes to support long term business goals.
• Achieved certification targets by facilitating HR Audits from various statutory and classification bodies such as ISO/OHSAS / British Safety Council, Financial Audit Department of Govt. of Dubai, Clients, etc.
• Handled Job Design, Job Evaluation, Job Grading, Policies and Compensation at corporate level including South East Asia Operations.
• Subsequent to the acquisitions of ship yards in Singapore & Indonesia, employee grading system was reviewed and successfully integrated with Group grading system (5, 000 employees).
• Prepared manpower planning guidelines and introduced manpower review including de-layering, span of control guidelines and resource sharing.
• Formed the Job Analysis team in HR and conducted Job analysis and Evaluation of 930 jobs based on Hay methodology.
• Facilitated employee relocations, global remuneration and benefits administration, and performance management initiatives to support group level executives / workforce needs.
• Headed the review of Performance Management System and rolled out successfully the revised Performance Assessment and Management System.
• Objective and competency elements were aligned in Performance Management System based on the employees levels and a competency mapping were introduced.
• As part of strategic objectives of the company, individual objectives (KPI) were linked with variable pay system and rewards.
• Achieved 100% communication target by training all management staff to have Key Performance Indicators in Performance Assessment System.
• Supervised the HR cost control initiatives and successfully reduced the HR overhead cost by 2-10%.