كريم Vandenberghe

Based in Dubai, I personally specialise in placing highly skilled professionals with a wide range of companies across the Middle East.

Recruitment/Candidates:
- Collection and analysis of staffing needs
- Definition of the position and candidate profiles
- Development of various recruitment strategies
- International Recruitment (mobility, transfer, expats…)
- In-house recruitment for RobertWalters Paris & Dubai
- Sourcing, Headhunting, interviews and selection (qualification, evaluation, motivation, reference-checks)
- Building detailed candidate databases
- Management of contract workers (integration follow-up, contracts, litigation)
- Mentorship, loyalty building and development of a candidate pool.
Good knowledge of Microsoft Office such asWord, Excel, PowerPoint, AD-Men, Thunderbird, Outlook, Lotus
 Team Management :
- Teambuilding (kickoffs, meetings, wrap up, incentives, challenges)
- Recruitment, Coaching, Training, Mentoring recruitment consultants and assistants
- Evaluation of consultants and assistants (appraisals & targets)
- Managing KPI’s (daily, weekly, monthly, trimester, annual reporting)
- Development of team implementation strategy
- Participation in managerial meetings
 Sales :
- Attain commercial objectives under different types of performance contracts
- Response to tenders
- Development of a client portfolio (prospection, rendezvous, negotiations, loyaltybuilding, litigation)
- Contract management and services, commercial conditions, price politics, billings, guaranties
- Coordinating between services: legal, human resources, credit management, clients and candidates
General Skills
- Ability to “think outside the box”; flexible and creative
- Ability to work under high pressure, meeting deadlines, working in team environment or independently
- Ability to communicate effectively in a diverse multicultural environment
- Values : integrity, teamwork, leadership, capacity to develop and sustain good working relationships and networking, leadership, capacity to develop and sustain good working relationships and networking


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
November 2009 - Present: ROBERT WALTERS FRANCE & UAE
Permanent, contract and interim basis in accountancy & finance, banking, engineering, operations, legal, information technology, sales & marketing, supply chain, procurement & logistics, human resources, support & administration. 2300 employees, quoted in the London Stock Exchange, 53 offices spanning 24 countries.

January 2013 - present: ROBERT WALTERS - DIFC, Dubai.
Senior Recruitment Consultant
- Recruitment of middle and top management in theMiddle East.
- Specialisation: Finance, HR, Sales & Marketing.
Working closely with the regional MD in opening the new RW Middle East office.
 Developing candidate pool and client database.
 Results: Top Achiever in the second quarter 2013.


November 2009 to December 2012: ROBERT WALTERS - Champs-Elysées, Paris.

Senior Recruitment Consultant
- Recruitment of back, middle & top Management in Paris & Neuilly/Seine.
- Specialisation: Finance, HR, Legal, Sales & Marketing.
- Results:
 Top Achiever 2011 (n°1 recruiter across Europe & Brazil)
 2012 personal net fee income: €310K
 2011 personal net fee income: €515K
 2010 personal net fee income: €290K
 100 placements per year (interim, temporary and permanent contracts)
 50 new clients: luxury brands, commercial, services, retail, media, industrial, etc.
 In-house recruitment for RobertWalters (finance, hr and legal department)
 International transfer from Paris to Dubai new office (January 2013)

January 2013 - present: ROBERT WALTERS - DIFC, Dubai.
Senior Consultant
- Recruitment of middle and top management in the Middle East.
- Specialisation: Finance, HR, Sales & Marketing.
• Working closely with the regional MD in opening the new RW Middle East office.
• Developing candidate pool and client database.
• Results: Top Achiever in the second quarter 2013.
• Clients: Chalhoub, L'Oreal, Clarins, Parfums Christian Dior, Sephora, Vinci, Emirates,
Nestle, Seabird, Emeraude, MPH, PropertyFinder, Kuoni, Air Liquide, Petronor

November 2009 - Present: ROBERT WALTERS FRANCE & UAE
Permanent, contract and interim basis in accountancy & finance, banking,
engineering, operations, legal, information technology, sales & marketing, supply
chain, procurement & logistics, human resources, support & administration. 2300
employees, quoted in the London Stock Exchange, 53 offices spanning 24 countries.

Expert in recruitment since 2003, Méléo has for vocation to answer all the needs in functional and technical skills of a company.
Consultant
Recruitment of back, middle & top Management in France.
- Results: • Signed framework agreements with an international banking leader
• Main clients: American Express and GE Money Bank.

November 2009 to December 2012: ROBERT WALTERS - Champs-Elysées, Paris.
Senior Consultant
- Recruitment of back, middle & top Management in Paris & Neuilly/Seine.
- Specialisation: Finance, HR, Legal, Sales & Marketing.
- Results: • Top Achiever 2011 (n°1 recruiter across Europe & Brazil)
• 2012 personal net fee income: €310K
• 2011 personal net fee income: €515K
• 2010 personal net fee income: €290K
• 100 placements per year (interim, temporary and permanent contracts)
• 50 new clients: luxury brands, commercial, services, retail, media, industrial, etc.
• In-house recruitment for Robert Walters (finance, hr and legal department)
• International transfer from Paris to Dubai new office (January 2013)

April to October 2009: Méléo - Opera, Paris.

December 2008 to April 2009: ORANGE, Paris. Commercial Attaché B2B, B2C

January 2006 to September 2008: E.Info and Zyg Corp. (Multimedia agency, online
advertising space), Paris.
• Created my own start-up with 2 partners: www.touslespros.com