Chief Advisor to the CEO
Harvard Business Council Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :8 years, 4 Months
- Provides high quality insight and advice to the CEO on a range of matters including strategic, organizational and operational issues to successfully deal with critical interactions as they arise
- Coordinates, analyze, and research information, and generate responses advice and/or recommendations on reports and papers received by the CEO and inform and brief accordingly
- Maintains awareness and gather information both internally and externally to ensure the Council is up to date with government sector planning, outcomes and goals
- Provides support to the CEO and take collective responsibility for the performance of the Council
- Builds knowledge of the key issues and work programmes that fall within the portfolio, including providing support and advice and early engagement with issues.
- Positively communicates and leads and encourages the commitment of the Council’s strategic direction
- Develops and maintains a high standard of personal integrity in all matters and ensure that the office maintains high standards
- Identifies and manages organizational risks
- Provides strategic quality assurance and risk management support
- Focus and encourage quality across the Council, and promote and support quality assurance practices
- Provides direct advice and high-level support to the CEO on matters of Intelligence, Strategy, Planning and Performance of Saudi Market
- Proactively look for opportunities to improve the operations of the Council
- Provides advisory leadership to developing and sustaining enterprise-wide workflow and other advisory management solutions
- Builds and maintains effective working relationships with people within both governmental bodies and non-governmental entities
- Undertakes projects as required, on behalf of the CEO
- Drives new business opportunities both nationally and regionally
- Advises Shareholder/Board Member on General Assembly, Board of Directors, Internal Audit Committee, and Nomination & Remuneration Committee
- Advises Shareholder/Board Member on both profit and non-profit business ideas and deals
- Champions the organization through Shareholder/Board Member with the government and local content/mega entities through feasible initiatives and programs aligned with the Corporate Strategy, Saudi Vision 2030, and Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- Drives maturity assessment for holding company and develops transformation roadmap
- Drives new business opportunities both nationally and regionally
- Facilitates key business, co-manages top clientele, and negotiates potential business deals through the creation of innovative solutions and sustainable improvement
- Achieves GM mandate and manage internal & external communication to GM as per approved & predetermined authorities & objectives
- Designs & manage Strategy & PMO Departments
- Develops strategy vision, mission, values, objectives, roadmap & KRAs
- Develops strategy business plan post COVID-19
- Develops departmental and operational KPIs to reach to operational excellence
- Designs & manage HR & Administration Affairs & Security Patrol Department including policies & procedures & guidelines & strategy plans & annual budgets
- Drafts periodic presentations to discuss progress and challenges
- Runs daily operations OTIF at optimum cost & efforts.
- Achieves GM mandate and manage internal & external communication to GM as per approved & predetermined authorities & objectives
- Designs & manage Strategy & PMO Departments
- Develops strategy vision, mission, values, objectives, roadmap & KRAs
- Develops strategy business plan post COVID-19
- Develops departmental and operational KPIs to reach to operational excellence
- Designs & manage HR & Administration Affairs & Security Patrol Department including policies & procedures & guidelines & strategy plans & annual budgets
- Drafts periodic presentations to discuss progress and challenges
- Runs daily operations OTIF at optimum cost & efforts.
- Establishes SMO & PMO to run real-time data with Center of Excellence to achieve org KPIs, op KPIs, & outcome KPIs.
- Operates Center of Knowledge to keep record of success stories & learned lessons.
- Represents the Centre of Excellence team in meetings to meet the overall objectives of holding company.
- Studies the effects of subsidiaries strategies, policies, protocols, procedures & practices from organizational & operational excellence wise, if found ineffective, suggests revisions and executes organizational & operational excellence standards across the entire subsidiaries;
- Assures lean transformational plans for subsidiaries are aligned with the holding company master-plan (vision, mission, growth elements, strategic directions, etc) as per real-time updates, best practices & learned lessons;
- Supports all industrial engineering activities, projects, initiatives assigned by the Top Management;
- Supports in spearheadding the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes.
- Sets the targets for different business units & departments and help them in their budgets preparation;
- Improves the job functional organizational structure, including the governance and authority matrix;
- Aims for world-class solutions against different business units & departmental issues and challenges;
- Assists holding company leadership in identifying opportunities to apply continuous improvement tools to subsidiaries, particularly in the areas of strategic and organizational & operational excellence; &
- Complete (goal settings; SMART) any tasks or duties assigned by Top Management.
- Co-manages operations of Office of GEVP with appointed team from different sectors
- Creates supporting initiatives to achieve targeted objectives for GEVP Mandate
- Responsible for formulating business strategies with the GMs of different departments
- Assists GMs for formulating various policies for the subsidiaries & its employees
- Monitors the procurement of resources & informs the finance department regarding project expenses for that particular project
- Draws road maps with its associated objectives as per estimated budgets
- Performs data analysis to tackle issues with appointed ops teams from different sectors
- Develops implementation & migration plans in line with holding vision
- Drafts executive talking points & agenda in high-level meetings & occasions
- Prepares high-level presentations & reports for BoD Com & Ex Com
- Participates in meetings & committees as per approved role
- Travels both locally & internationally as per business needs
- Develops long-term strategies and translate them into actionable plans
- Develops and activate framework to manage and govern strategic initiatives
- Provides the necessary support and guidance to facilitate decision making process
- Reports on performance and outcomes of activities
- Identifies and mitigate potential risks and issues
- Strategize initiatives prioritization and tracking
- Oversees communication activities in relation to the transformational initiatives
- Supports stakeholder mapping to identify the stakeholder groups that will be impacted by the transformational initiatives
- Helps in the accreditation process of ISO 9001:2008 throughout all Subsidiaries
- Helps in developing synergistic initiatives & conducting leadership meetings to bring in together all Subsidiaries CXOs & ExCom
- Creates SMO initiatives, project charters, plan & toolkit
- Creates Board of Directors module & procedure
- Develops monthly compliance report throughout all Subsidiaries
- Delivers coordinated training and development leadership throughout consultant.
- Manage all activities related to production control in LORP, including operating, handling, inspecting different equipment used for production process and ensure that all semi-products & finished-products are delivered on time and as per specifications;
- Develop plan & execute toolbox meeting to improve awareness on QHSE .
- Coordinate HSE activities as HSE focal person in LORP;
- Implementation of main production policies & overall goals;
- Submit weekly, monthly, 3-months, semi-annually and annually LORP reports;
- Maintaining documented procedures for all quality assurance activities and equipment handling in accordance with ISO 9001:2008 requirements;
- Analyze & evaluate performance and capability of processes/activities using suitable statistical methods to optimize the efficiency and setting tight control limits so as to keep the values of all parameters within the specified quality limits;
- Elimination of non-added value activities to increase efficiency and productivity and reduce time and costs;
- Conduct MSDS for used oil & base oils and report on condition to customers;
- Doing the Preventative Maintenance Plan(PMP) for all LORP equipment;
- Capable of doing entry-level lining/piping plans for LORP;
- Color-Code all lines/pipes & equipment in accordance to API Standards;
- Ensure that within the LORP, the stocks of finished products are stored and handled in accordance to the company’s storage and handling guidelines;
- Ensure that all LORP equipment are in a perfect operating condition and are periodically calibrated as outlined in LORP manufacturing manual;
- HAZID, HAZOP, PHA and Spill Response On-Scene Commander;
- Ensure that the work done at the LORP is conducted within the HSE standards set by the company; and
- Complete(goal settings; SMART) any tasks or duties assigned by Top Management.
- Provide support to the MD by managing all inward and outward correspondences and encoding correspondences, reports & documents, etc.
- Define performance goals at the start of the year in discussion with the reporting manager and ensures that the goals are achieved during the course of the year and make follow-ups to different departments, companies, clients and/or any pending documents as requested by the MD including the status thereof and ensure safe custody and confidentiality;
- Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company throughout;
- Review and evaluate all policies and procedures in the company to emulate best practices and maintain high team performance and company morale;
- Take ownership of his own learning agenda by identifying development needs in consultation with the MD and agreeing on the individual development strategic plan and strategic direction which goes beyond just training and development;
- Complete (goal settings; SMART) any tasks assigned by Top Management.
Volunteered as an Executive Associate (Pro Bono) to the Dean of CUP from April, 2012 to Jan, 2014.
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