Regional HR Manager
Rotary Engineering
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
Established in 1972, Rotary Engineering is considered one of the largest EPIC, EPICC engineering companies specialized in refinery and oil and gas tankage, pipeline construction.
Role: Regional HR Manager (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Djibouti)
Running 3 Major projects with combined value of $700 m and multiple small projects
- Creating the HR Shared Services in the Middle East.
- Building the manpower burden table (Budget) for Middle East entities.
- Provide HR Analytics reports for various HR Activities
- Aligning Middle East Policies and procedures with local laws and regulations.
- Creating in-depth readily available automated centralized HR reporting systems allowing decision makers allowing for timely informed decision making.
- Centralize and optimize the HR activities including HRIS, recruitment, payroll, administration, compensation and benefits.
- Lead business units licensing activities, registration and renewals in ME Countries.
- Monitor HR development and financial KPIs across Middle East countries.
- Lead the monthly Middle East HR meetings.
- Ensure compliance with IMS systems in the middle east and act as the HR representative in audits.
- Lead the Performance Appraisals cycle rollout and activities in the middle east.
- Plan and lead employee engagement activities.
- Lead company diversity and Localization efforts across the Middle East. (Saudization, Qatarization and Emiratization).
- Ensuring compliance with government localization guidelines and quotas.
- Keeping discipline leads informed regarding legal regulations changes across the Middle East.
- Leading and automating transports and logistics optimization and fleet maintenance for major projects.
- Leading group insurance policy negotiation and analysis.
Achievements:
- Created Automated Project Loading plan tracking system which allows to monitor all middle east projects recruitment with a single click.
- Successfully Created the HR Service Center to serve all entities with little to no disruption of HR Activities.
- Renegotiated insurance plans with vendors leading a reduction in premiums of over QAR200, 000.
- Pushed top management to adopt manpower supply option and negotiating the rates with supply companies saving over QAR1.9 million
- Achieved 98% accommodation utilization in Qatar using advanced integrated planning systems and negotiating with vendors taking into account the manpower mobilization during the world cup with little disruption saving over QAR1, 000, 000/- above target
- Rolled out SuccessFactors in for the first time for direct and indirect workers and achieved 90% completion rate.
- Created a state of the art project petty cash claim system which had become the go to record for company expense statistics.
- Achieved 0.05% government penalties (recorded penalties were due to rapid government regulation changes and not for lack of tracking)
- My team achieved 98% manpower timely manpower mobilization for all positions at the 0.5% of the grade structure min point.
Brief:
Nabina Group of companies established in 1951 based in Qatar and has 11 subsidiaries and around 1, 500 employee and has operations in retail, Manufacturing Trading, Construction, Contracting, consultancy delivery, Real Estate.
Achievements:
- Created the Group organization under Nabina Holding Umbrella and restructuring of the entire organization with defined roles and responsibilities.
- Created the complete HR Processes and procedures including the process matrix
- Process mapping and HRIS Implementation
- Leading the inhouse development of the HR Module of the ERP System. Including (HOB, Payroll, Performance management, training and development, succession planning)
- Leading transformation efforts including group reorganization to guarantee controls over functions across and accountability across the group.
- Creating the HR Service Center for the organization.
- Leading efforts of creating the group’s policies and procedures.
- Workforce budgeting and cost control
- Leading performance KPI’s creation and accountability metrics.
- Created a complete analysis for the organization workflows on organizational and departmental level.
- Partnered with function heads to complete the job analysis for the entire organization of which 100% on high level roles and 40% of the remaining organization detailed job descriptions.
- Created and rolled out 14 Major Policies and Procedures including the systems to ensure controls over those policies.
- Created a communication platform for the organization
- Created the Organization's Grading structure and benefits matrix
- Created a system to track all government related applications including visa processing, RP Renewal, Vehicle documentation registration, Company document processing and renewal.
- Various other projects.
Company Brief:
Established in 1907 Baker Hughes is currently considered one of the top 3 oil and gas service companies in the world. With more than 45, 000 Employees worldwide and presence in more than 100 countries, BHI prides itself for its innovation and continuous success represented by its flawless safety records, high employee retention results and ever growing market share.
Responsibilities:
-Oversee employee performance and evaluation cycle.
-Administer annual compensation plans
-Ensure staff compliance with company code of conduct, US laws and local laws in Qatar.
-Represent the company in Labour Department in the capacity of an authorized manager in company registration in case of labour disputes or committee meetings.
-Coordinate employee career path with talent management division in the organization
-Oversee recruitment process for various product lines and ensure compliance.
-Coordinate client training with BHI IndepthTM Training center
-Manage employee benefits and ensure alignment with established guidelines.
-Contract negotiation for high level recruitment
-Coordinating transfers Global Mobility
-Ensuring compliance with established manpower budget
-Coordinate employee related legal issues with legal division and public relations.
-Provide updates, guidance, mentoring, training and orientation for employees.
-Conflicts Management.
-Conduct disciplinary actions against violators.
-Build company relations with Universities.
Accomplishments:
-Managed the workforce reduction exercise for the Middle East in 2015-2016 flawlessly and compliantly by coordinating with Operations leadership, Legal and HRBP’s and created a leadership reporting system which shows progress, cost saving, comparison with plan.
-Created and administered a global workforce loaning system for internal resources which saved cost on temporary external “Consultant” workforce mobilization for the company
-Created the Middle East workforce budget of 2017
-Created a workforce utilization analytics system to track unutilized resources
-Lead the organization realignment project for the Middle East during 2016 geomarket restructuring.
-Working as the Hotline Investigation officer for the Middle East and completing over 20 compliance and code of conduct investigations.
-Worked as the HR Service Center Interm Manager in Dubai for 3 months where we managed to create systems to reduce repetitive work and improve response time.
-Immediately aligned Qatar HR Policies with Qatar labour law upon my arrival.
-Successfully cleared employee disputes with Labour department .
-Created a global Field Compensation policy to avoid disputes during employee assignment in different locations.
Thales Group is a defense, security, space, aerospace and ground transportation.
with world-class technologies and the combined expertise of 67, 000 employees in 56 locally based country operations make Thales a key player in assuring the security of citizens, infrastructure and nations.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Pushing forward the Organization, Team and Individual Objective setting to be in line with the project authority vision and Thales standard guidelines to monitor implementation through the performance and appraisals cycle in addition to ensuring compliance with Thales standard objectives.
- Managing employee yearly performance and awards compensation structure.
- Modifying Thales International group policy to be in line with the local laws and regulations.
- Coordinating with project authority to compose the company's mobilization and demobilization plans to ensure compliance with the contractual requirements within the approved budgets then conduct proper assessment of the kind of assignment required for every particular function and finally proceed with the recruitment activities as required.
- Identifying the most appropriate contract type for manpower recruitment, this includes, Local Contracts, Temporary Assignments, Expatriation Contracts, Missions, Subcontractors… Etc.
- Coordinating with regional offices around the world concerning short & long term internal mobility requirements and manage international mobility compensation structure for candidates in Qatar.
- Composing and budgeting the company's manpower training plans and ensuring compatibility with project requirements and ensure alignment with THALES UNIVERSITY.
- Coordinate with PRO Department to conduct the proper visa processing and document renewals as necessary.
- Generate regular reports to project management and HR director and participate in the regional review meetings.
- Manage employee long term incentive plans.
- Review and approve monthly payroll.
- Manage employee compensation and benefits in accordance with employee contract.
- Managing daily the HR functions of three companies based in Qatar.
- Life and health insurance plans assessment and approval.
Reporting :
Project Director (Qatar)
HR Director Middle East Head Office (Dubai)
Al Wataniya Concrete is a ready mixed concrete company involved in construction and engineering solutions.
My duties were similar to those at Green point Ready Mix L.L.C
Accomplishments
• Established a functional HR Department from scratch.
• Established the current Quality Management System in the company and successfully acquired the ISO
• Assisted in shortlisting the current ERP System by studying business requirements and comparing it with the most effective ERP systems for the industry.
• Established various business performance monitoring tools for the HR Department and other departments
• Developed and updated the company website
Qatar International Trading Company is involved in many trading and contracting fields such as construction, manpower outsourcing and electromechanical works
My work was to coordinate between the HR Department and the Public Relations Department regarding employee processing and requests which involved the following duties:
- Employee Recruitment processing
- Visa Renewals
- Employee benefits calculation
- Employee Database update
- Supervising over the renewal of company documentation.
- Comprehensive document translation from Arabic - English, Vice versa
- Employee Filing according to ISO Standards for filing and retrieval.
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