Account Manager - Global Talent Acquisition
alfanar Projects Company
Total years of experience :23 years, 6 Months
alfanar Projects Company, KSA, UAE, UK, Spain
alfanar is primarily engaged in manufacturing electrical construction products, EPC solutions for conventional and renewable power plants, allied engineering services and design engineering, committed to meeting the ever-growing demand for power infrastructure across the world.
Provide turnkey EPC solutions for conventional and renewable energy power plants and water treatment facilities.
Responsible for MEP (NEOM, Red Sea Giga Smart Projects), Power & Water and P&D accounts.
Lead and manage local & overseas full recruitment cycle for client accounts, salary negotiation, offer issuance, obtaining documents, tracking on-boarding process till candidate joining.
Keeping track of recruiting KPI metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, time to-hire, Quality of hire, Source of hire, Cost-per-hire etc.).
Conduct preliminary tele-personal interviews with local and abroad candidates.
Lead campaigns and sourcing initiatives for effective candidate pooling, coordinate with overseas recruiting agencies & provide them with required documentation to finalize the employment procedures for international employees.
Attracting top talent for vacant positions using professional social media, job advertisements and others.
Strengthening the recruitment and assessment process reflecting exceptional hiring practices through improving sourcing mediums and assessment capabilities of hiring managers.
Manage overall HR budgeting, manpower plan in correlation with project(s) and business unit plans.
Ensuring the team maintains accuracy and adherence to the hiring process using the Applicant Tracking System.
Position: Talent Acquisition & Compliance Advisor JAN 2020 - DEC 2022 NESMA INTERNATIONAL WATER & ENERGY CO. LTD, KSA and Bahrain
Position: Senior HR Supervisor
NESMA RECYCLING CO. LTD, KSA NOV 2017 - DEC 2019
Position: Recruitment & OD Supervisor
NESMA INTERNATIONAL WATER & ENERGY CO. LTD, KSA MAY 2015 - NOV 2017
Lead and managed local & overseas recruitment process until deployment at client projects.
Successfully recruited 1, 500+ (White and Blue Collar) employees and assisted CEO in recruiting C level & Director levels positions.
Standardization of policies & procedures, provide direction and advice on interpretation and application of policies, recommends revisions to business, where necessary.
Lead organization change initiatives (restructuring, talent development, cost reductions, performance improvement plans, and related internal communications).
Partner with corporate executive management on HR initiatives to meet the business goals.
Succession planning & career path development of high potential (HIPO) employees.
Carried out investigation and preparing the report for reported compliance incidents as per the Group Business Ethics & Compliance policy.
Promoting company values, organizing engagement and team building activities.
Maintain effective & professional working relationship between all divisions/business units, while ensuring best conduct, effective team building and problem /conflict resolution approach.
As special job assignment to functioned Insurance activities within the Company, purchased and policies renewal of Medical, General, Contractor All Risk, properties, Professional Indemnity, Liabilities and motor Insurance accounts.
Area of Achievements:
Recruited manpower for Civil Infrastructure, Water & Wastewater Treatment plants within the approved manpower budget and stipulated timeframes.
Developed comprehensive database of technical / non-technical professionals through various online, offline resources / activities across Middle East and Asian continent.
Designed and developed Shared Services and Operational Support & Compliance departments, and related policies & procedures, workflow, and authority matrix.
Identified key critical positions and readily available successors through talent assessment.
Delivered awareness session on business ethics, code of conduct, core values and HR for non-HR professionals.
Drafted division of responsibilities matrix for smooth department interface.
Developed Saudization plan and strategy to maintain Saudization level.
Implementation of MenaiTech HR system.
HR & KPI based performance dashboard.
Headhunting C-level and key positions related to the support functions.
Successful in securing SAR 0.5 million related to all Company insurance accounts.
Involved in Jubail 3B IWP - PPP project bidding HR requirement.
Partner with Country Business Managers to deliver integrated HR support and solutions for all day to
day HR issues within the Plant Construction & Services Business Division.
Area of Achievements:
Core project team member of SAP HCM module, integrated On-line performance appraisal system, HR objectives and KPI dashboard development and implementation.
Major role as a recruiter and fulfilled 85% manpower requirement for plant construction and Operations and maintenance business division.
Recruited manpower for a large scale of water & wastewater treatment plants, civil infrastructure, Oil & Gas plant construction and shutdown project in Pakistan and Qatar.
Employed various online recruitment channels, social media platforms, internal referrals, recruitment agencies for recruitment process and exceeded key performance indicators of recruitment requisitions.
Scheduled telephonic, Skype, face-face interviews of shortlisted candidates and exhibited excellent ratio of shortlisted to offer ratio.
Recruited 100 fresh engineers through Graduate engineer training program in from 2013 & 2014.
Rolled out a talent assessment program to identify high potential, star and core performer employees at the business division level.
Conducted climate & salary survey by Mercer.
Played a key role in implementing change management strategies, including organization restructuring at the business area level.
Developed and implement career path for high potential employees.
Derived HR initiatives including employee engagement, employer branding, team building exercise, and CSR campaign.
Effectively handled employee conflict keeping the legal boundaries in view and participated in management negotiations for peaceful agreements.
Implemented employee learning & development programs in three different categories i.e. Systems Trainings, Soft Skills Trainings and Technical Trainings. Over the year in 2012 invested 8, 500 man-hours on employees Training.
Improved corporate and business area level communication, team visibility and coordination.
Delivered awareness sessions on Safety, performance management system and HR for line Managers.
Designed and executed various employee retention initiatives and developed a culture “The organization a great place to work”.
Organized team-building and extracurricular activities, annual sports gala, town hall meetings, long service awards ceremony & a lesson learned meetings.
Lead and managed end to end full recruitment cycle for local and overseas.
Revamped Recruitment & Staffing function in UAE Business Area, revised R&S policy & procedure and formats according to business strategy as well as formed new R&S team.
Acquired best talent through international hiring campaign in various countries like United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Jordan, Romania, South Africa, Venezuela, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal and Turkey.
Increased workforce diversity by inducting 11 different nationalities.
Mobilized more than 5, 000 employees within the budget and as per manpower mobilization plan for Oil & Gas Plant Shutdown and Industrial Plant Construction projects.
Synchronization of manpower mobilization and demobilization plan for future deployment according to the business plan.
Project office and camp administration.
Assisted to Corporate Head of HR for establishing HR function in Karachi Region during transformation phase of Personnel to HR department.
Smooth handling of extensive HR Operations along with performance & compensation management, attendance & payroll administration, leaves & end of service benefits, employee transfer, EOBI, medical insurance, local Travel, HR record management, etc.
Masters of Public Administration
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com)