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Mohamed Saad, People Partner– Middle East

Mohamed Saad

People Partner– Middle East·Intrepid Travel

Egypt

Master's degree, Human Resources Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 12 years, 4 months

People Partner– Middle East

April 2025 - Present

Intrepid Travel

Cairo, Egypt Hybrid

April 2025 - Present

• Employee Engagement: Drove eNPS recovery from −11 to +72 in Egypt and from 75 to 100 in Jordan through
leadership focus groups, action planning, and management accountability.
• Organizational Redesign: Led cross-functional organizational redesign across Product & Sales, Contracting, and
Reservations — improving role clarity and operational efficiency without additional hiring cost.
• Labor Law Compliance: Achieved ~90% compliance readiness following Egypts new labor law through documentation
reviews, governance improvements, and compliance audits.
• Cost & Risk Management: Unlocked EGP 300K in leave liability savings by identifying risk, influencing senior leadership,
and implementing structured leave governance.
• Reward & Retention: Introduced a 22% guaranteed employee value increase via transportation allowance by leading
market benchmarking and advocating for reward redesign during a period of high inflation.
• Performance Management: Led formal PIPs for 8 employees resulting in meaningful capability improvement, internal
promotions, and decisive action on persistent underperformance.
• Leadership Development: Designed and facilitated leadership capability programs across Egypt, Jordan, and EMEA
covering influence, feedback, and difficult conversations.
• Digital Learning: Developed digital learning experiences using Articulate Rise 360 to strengthen policy awareness,
compliance understanding, and employee self-service.
• Workforce Transition: Led people-side planning and execution of a sensitive workforce transition, ensuring legal
compliance, business continuity, and effective stakeholder communication.

Company industry:
Hospitality & Accomodation
Job role:
Hospitality and Tourism

Regional HR Senior Generalist

September 2023 - April 2025

North Africa & Levant

6th of October, Egypt Hybrid

September 2023 - April 2025

• Employee Engagement: Increased Wellbeing and Personal Development indicators from 37% to 84%; contributed to
Diamond-level engagement results.
• Training Excellence: Improved CIMA Training Pillar score from 3.2 to 4.3, achieving Gold certification and positioning the
site among top global performers.
• Leadership Development: Designed and launched Elevate Leadership Development Program — 7 tracks, 48+
employees and 20+ managers.
• Talent Acquisition: Closed 10+ dormant requisitions and hired 20+ critical roles within three months to support
manufacturing expansion.
• Wellbeing: Designed and launched Peace Potion, a digital stress management platform later piloted in South Africa and
Morocco.
• Wellbeing Policy: Introduced the sites first Wellbeing Policy and led large-scale wellbeing initiatives across health,
resilience, and team cohesion.
• Engagement Governance: Led engagement survey analysis, focus groups, and action planning — achieving 100%
action plan completion.
• Team Leadership: Led and supervised a local HR team (HR Specialists + HR Coordinator) providing coaching, guidance,
and day-to-day direction.
• Employer Branding: Built university and external stakeholder partnerships to strengthen employer brand and talent
pipeline.

Company industry:
Entertainment

People & Culture Manager

November 2020 - September 2023

Sanctum Hospitality

Cairo, Egypt Hybrid

November 2020 - September 2023

• Retention Transformation: Reduced employee turnover from 98% to 25% through retention initiatives, benefits redesign,
onboarding improvements, and employee experience transformation.
• HR Function Build: Built the organizations first People & Culture function — establishing contracts, records, policies,
payroll controls, and governance from zero.
• Business Impact: Contributed to customer satisfaction improvement from 65% to 95% through workforce capability,
onboarding, and service quality programs.
• Talent Development: Designed a 3-month onboarding and capability program for hospitality staff— building an internal
service excellence curriculum.
• Workforce Planning: Developed workforce planning and manpower forecasting models supporting the opening of 3 new
locations while reducing planned staffing by ~30%.
• Recruitment at Scale: Led recruitment and onboarding of 200+ employees supporting business stabilization and multi-
site expansion.
• Strategic HR: Executed a 3-year HR transformation roadmap covering governance, legal compliance, OD, performance
management, and workforce strategy.
• Organizational Design: Designed organizational structure for 24 positions; introduced job evaluation framework and
grading system.

Company industry:
Catering, Food Service, & Restaurant

Talent Acquisition & HR Lead

September 2018 - November 2020

Firnas Shuman (Renewable Energy)

Cairo, Egypt Hybrid

September 2018 - November 2020

• Team Build: Built 3 specialized field installation teams by recruiting 12 tower-climbing technicians — achieving 100%
probation success rate supporting 50+ international projects.
• Policy Advocacy: Resolved critical workforce mobility barrier by collaborating with Egyptian labor authorities to establish
Tower Climber as an officially recognized occupational title — eliminating recurring international deployment disruptions.
• Selection Design: Designed rigorous selection framework combining technical, safety, language, and cognitive
assessments.
• HR Tech: Led HR workstream in Odoo ERP implementation, configuring HR modules to support scalable people
processes.

Company industry:
Energy & Renewables

HR Senior Specialist (Acting HR Manager)

May 2016 - September 2018

Educate Me Foundation

Cairo, Egypt Hybrid

May 2016 - September 2018

• Supported organizational growth from 34 to 98 employees in one year while maintaining ~98% employee retention.
• Recruited and onboarded 38 specialists, trainers, and subject matter experts for a national education transformation
initiative.
• Assumed acting HR Manager role following leadership transition — partnering with Operations Director to maintain
stability.
• Supported first compensation restructuring: job evaluation, salary benchmarking, and grading with external consultants.

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School

Human Resources Section Head (Co-Founder)

January 2013 - March 2015

Alwan Foundation

Cairo, Egypt Hybrid

January 2013 - March 2015

• Co-founded and led the HR function from scratch — authored the organizations first HR Manual, performance framework,
and organizational structure.
• Coordinated onboarding and engagement of 50+ volunteers and 400+ community and workshop participants.

Company industry:
Industrial Production

Education

Arab Academy for Administrative, Financial and Banking Sciences

October 2027

October 2027

Master's degree, Human Resources Management

Egypt

House of Counseling

November 2025

November 2025

Diploma, Developmental Psychology

Egypt

Cairo University

June 2014

June 2014

Bachelor's degree, Business Law

Egypt

Skills

BUSINESS PARTNERING
Intermediate
BUSINESS PARTNERING
Intermediate
CORPORATE FINANCE
Intermediate
CORPORATE FINANCE
Intermediate
CULTURE TRANSFORMATION
Intermediate
CULTURE TRANSFORMATION
Intermediate
DISCUSSION FACILITATION
Intermediate
DISCUSSION FACILITATION
Intermediate
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Intermediate
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Intermediate
LEADERSHIP
Intermediate
LEADERSHIP
Intermediate
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Intermediate
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Intermediate
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING
Intermediate
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING
Intermediate
WORKFORCE PLANNING
Intermediate
WORKFORCE PLANNING
Intermediate

Languages

Arabic

Beginner

English

Beginner

Spanish

Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Data Analysis and Visualization
KPI-Based Performance Management & Balanced Scorecard
Getting Things Done® (GTD)
Training of Trainers (ToT)
Life Coaching Certificate
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner Certificate
Business Partnering Certificate