Regional HR & Administration Head
AlBawani Company Ltd.
Total years of experience :27 years, 8 Months
Partner with program leaders on leadership capabilities, identifying, developing and placing right talent in right roles to drives business performance and results.
Partner with leadership to develop and implement talent management strategies to include workforce planning, business alignment, human resource reviews (HRR), recruitment and selection of key talent, succession planning, and knowledge transfer.
Counsel and coach executives and managers on matters concerning identifying, developing and placing high potential talent to enhance career development, succession planning and business results.
Educates leaders and employees on performance management process and compensations practices.
Lead HR/business projects across projects and participate in enterprise-wide level initiatives that impact business.
Actively partnered with functional leaders to establish, implement and monitor short term and long term strategies for driving business results.
Directs and supervises activities of six HR professionals to ensure consistency and collaboration.
Provides continuous oversight and coaching on their growth and development.
Delivers interim and annual performance reviews and supports their career development activities.
Coordinated and controlled 9000 plus workers and staff from their mobilization, registration including attendance devices, manpower distribution, vacations, ticketing, evaluations and increments, medical insurance, project access identification cards, visit visa tracking and renewals, clearances and demobilization & transfer to other projects as well as liaison with accommodation, transportation, insurance, warehouse, and security departments.
Formed team from available visit visa personnel & trained them, managed and controlled complete HR and Admin works as credible activist, strategic positioner and compliance manager of project with clear responsibility and accountability to Project Management and Functional Management.
Developed, collaborated and maintained very good cordial working relationship with discipline heads of project and project director.
Extensively involved in day to day issues and solving problems creatively, coaching and mentoring, conflict handing, employee persuasion, ticketing, providing guidance on policies and procedures on benefits, and correcting work flows as necessary to build and maintain relationship between management and workers.
Effectively adapting to situation and notifying as well as educating project management on imminent employee issues and providing solutions.
Completed human resource operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees.
Maintained work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions.
Collaborated with entire human resource department to discuss new ways to recruit top talent.
Addressed employee conflicts with appropriate urgency, following all corporate procedures.
Coordinated implementation of people-related services, policies and programs through departmental staff.
Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications.
Developed succession plans and promotion paths for all staff.
Administered benefits programs, analyzed compensation and other competitive data and prepared budgets.
Planned, monitored and appraised employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees.
Provided guidance on policies and procedures to harmonize responses, provide appropriate investigation actions and reach resolution of grievances.
Structured compensation and benefits according to market conditions and budget demands.
Educated management on successful policy implementation and enforcement actions to prevent employee legal entanglements.
Facilitated onboarding sessions and on- -job training for new hires, bolstering employee job position knowledge and skillset.
Created and implemented forward-thinking initiatives to improve employee engagement.
Partnering closely with chief operating officer, Managing Director to grow dynamic performance culture.
Supporting and managing daily HR operations for assigned offices.
Providing exceptional employee service and support by responding timely and accurately to general employee questions and requests.
Helping drive successful delivery of HR programs and processes that support “best places to work” culture and positive employee experiences.
Developing and implementing strategies for employee retention, motivation and engagement.
Able to manage and deliver HR programs in entrepreneurial and creative culture.
Proven track record within multiple HR disciplines: employee relations, training and development, performance management, benefits, recruiting & succession planning.
Part of team that planned overall company strategy and extensively involved creating and aligning HR linkage to overall business objectives and corporate social responsibilities.
Identified workforce demand by strategic and operational planning.
Proposed guidance for company restructuring plan as per revised company strategies and helped personnel adapt to it.
Achieved recruiting of workers and staff ranging from labors to engineers both from outside and locally with various stages of job analysis, talent sourcing passively and actively, contract negotiation, hiring and mobilization from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Philippines and UK within budget and time frame.
Successfully designed and implemented integrated HR and Administration policies and subsequent procedures for first time in this company after reviewing existing business processes and aligning to business objectives.
Achieved high degree of success in conducting annual evaluation, feedback to employees, 360 degrees in certain cases, recommendation of training with department managers, validated salary increments and job promotion, follow up after training on performance of employees.
Annual training budgets were incorporated and got approved from top management.
Identified exceptional top performers and monitoring and managing their careers.
Achieved hiring locally available key and bottleneck candidates in bulk and individual due to work necessities with reasonable salary package.
Work force planning was designed with previous few year's data and identified employee life cycle and trends.
Exit interviews were conducted and their underlying feedback incorporated into Business Processes improvement wherever applicable.
Major Conflict's related to human resources from respective sites were navigated from HR office.
Grievances especially from workers were monitored and reasonable grievances were addressed with respective manager's support.
Achieved minimal disruption of company actives by implementing annual vacation plan and making sure core team are not in vacation in same time.
Maintained accrued leaves and vacation taken.
Planning, delegating and monitoring and providing feedback on day to day operations for HR & Administration
Staff and training them for development especially Saudi's. Also assigned vehicles on short notices as per requirement.
Achieved establishing credit facilities with leading auto sellers for company for first time and purchased many vehicles and equipment.
Monitored complete General Services including office stores and ensured timely and quality delivery.
Effectively handled leasing contracts and company certificates and renewed prior to their expiry.
Achieved cost reduction with enhanced coverage by establishing and administering medical insurance and vehicle insurance for whole group.
Monitored and administered daily attendance and monthly time sheets.
Achieved implementation of ISO 9001:2008 and got UKAS certified.
Created and implemented forward-thinking initiatives to improve employee engagement.
Assessed and aligned compensation packages to market to attract highly qualified applicants for organizational vacancies.
Involved in strategic positioning activities and providing HR linkage to achieve business objectives and corporate social responsibilities.
Achieved recruiting of many skilled personnel, supervisors, engineers, key and bottleneck functions within budget and time frame.
Effectively carried out job analysis, agent finalization, advertising, recruitment and selection, contract negotiation and successful mobilization of personnel especially from India, Pakistan, Philippines and Nepal.
Educated management on successful policy implementation and enforcement actions to prevent employee legal entanglements.
Updated training processes by reviewing existing documentation, leveraging feedback from associates, and working with legal and compliance teams.
Streamlined complaint response management by providing guidance on policies and ensuring appropriate and accurate investigation processes.
Boosted customer satisfaction ratings by resolving issues for speedy resolution.
Provided guidance on policies and procedures to harmonize responses, provide appropriate investigation actions and reach resolution of grievances.
Assessed and aligned compensation packages to market to attract highly qualified applicants for organizational vacancies.
Strengthened operational efficiencies and traceability by developing organizational filing systems for confidential employee records and reports.
Achieved successful policy to procedure implementation and execution of HR & Personnel Policies and procedures as part of larger Organization manual implementation.
Owned the annual evaluation process, coordinated & recommending training for development either internal or external or blended, following up on the improvement in skills of employees.
Succession planning was achieved for managers and engineers and identified future prospective based on matching technical, communication, men management skills and attitude and properly monitoring their progress with respective managers.
Exit interviews were conducted and their underlying feedback incorporated into Business Processes improvement wherever applicable.
Handled conflicts and properly documented for future use.
Grievances especially from workers were monitored and reasonable grievances were addressed with respective manager’s support.
Achieved minimal disruption of company actives by implementing annual vacation plan and making sure core team are not in vacation in the same time.
Effectively planned, delegated and given feedback on day to day operations for HR & Administration staff and training them for development especially for Saudi’s which helped immensely to succeed for higher position by skill development.
Ensured uniform application of company’ rules and regulations and procedures pertaining to personnel as well as their benefits and compensation.
Effectively controlled the company telephones and mobiles of all the projects and HO country wide.
Systematically monitoring and controlling daily attendance of Head Office personnel.
Assigned vehicles on short notices as per requirement.
Successfully maintained and renewed all the company original certificates.
Achieved cost reduction with good coverage medical insurance and vehicle insurance for the company and administered it effectively.
Monitored complete General Services including office stores.
Low cost tickets were arranged for employees on their vacation.
Achieved ISO 9001: 2008 certification
Successful periodic internal audits for the company were planned, conducted and reported thru management review meeting.
Effectively Implemented Organization Manual being part of ISO 9001 as third level of document.
Implemented centralized document control of the company.
Effectively carried out Saudi Aramco Roster works like addition, deletion and or upgrade of employees based on respective manager’s input.
Supervised Saudi Aramco ID and vehicle sticker processing and its surrender before its expiry to avoid penalty.
Successfully Maintained blue receipts including interaction with other companies as necessary.
Purchased IT equipment’s and its service agreement (FSMA) as well as its effective usage with market lowest price without compromising of quality.
Efficiently maintained fleet of company vehicles including its periodic preventive maintenance services and assignment and controlled consumables, Vehicles were assigned on daily basis for site visits and made sure it is charged back to client.
Maintained very good supplier chain relationship to purchase items cost and time effective.
Arranged ticketing needs of company cost wise beneficial to company without issues to employees.
Evaluated medical insurance service provider every year by submitting a detailed comparison report to management with service being provided to charges applied.
Evaluated, recommended and administered medical insurance of company.
Well managed company owned and rented villas and staff accommodation.
Coordinated successfully for conducting business events and exhibitions.
Procured, printed or engraved and distributed gift items, calendars and diaries.
Well maintained employee files.
Involved in conflict resolution, employee appraisal and vacation systems supporting HR & Administration Manager.
Received in house training on continuous basis in HR and Administration activities by supporting Saudi Staff’s.
Provided guidance on policies and procedures to harmonize responses, provide appropriate investigation actions and reach resolution of grievances.
Boosted customer satisfaction ratings by resolving issues for speedy resolution.
Streamlined HR efficiencies, coordinated new hire orientations and provided onboarding and training for new employees.
Evaluated effectiveness of training programs and provided upper management strategic recommendations for improvements.
Effectively coordinated between various projects and with administration, procurement and finance and represented the projects and their queries and request were acted upon in a timely manner.
Collecting information on projects and arranging meetings.
Effectively resolved HR and personnel issues of remote based workers and employees in coordination with HR department.
Successfully coordinated the annual appraisal and communicating to HR and getting feedback.
Successfully prepared sub-contract agreements as well as certain PO for operations department.
Actively took part in ISO certification process.
Coordinated the manpower and vehicle / equipment movements from projects to projects.
Prepared technical submittal for estimation (prequalification documents, construction schedule in bar chart form, manpower utilization plan, equipment utilization plan, proposed assignment of key personnel, and proposed organization chart) and commercial submittal and its finalization.
Prepared progressive invoices for ongoing projects as per B.o.Q items as reported by project managers by percentage accomplishment that was approved by client.
Master of Business Administration in Human Resources and Finance from Bangalore University.
Bachelor of Science from Bharatidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India.
