Group Organizational Development Director
Elsewedy Electric
Total years of experience :28 years, 1 Months
Elsewedy Electric Group has 12K + employees working in 30 branches in 14 countries and exporting more than 100 countries. The Group’s main business lines are: Power and Energy; Power Construction; Industrial Zone Development; and Turn Key projects.
Strategy Development
• Provide expertise in strategy planning, development, and facilitation of implementation and execution.
• Design and communicate functional strategic objectives.
• Review Company’s Vision, mission and values.
Organizational Development
• Review organizational structures and design job descriptions for white collars in both Local and International subsidiaries.
• Develop a Competency Model with Core & Leadership Competencies mapped across different proficiency levels.
• Design Competency based interview questions to be used by Talent Acquisition team.
HRIS Implementation Project
• Lead the team during the whole process starting from vendor selection to successful final implementation.
• Facilitate the implementation of the project scope in 30 companies in Egypt and various international sites using 3 languages (Arabic, English and French).
• Supervise the Business analysis stage for all 15 companies in Egypt.
• Manage the unification of business rules for all companies in Egypt.
Succession Planning
• Identify High potentials and Key Business roles.
• Conduct Assessment center for leadership ability.
• Create Individual Development Plans (IDP).
Performance Management
• Analyze and re-engineer the performance management cycle across all companies.
• Train HR Directors on the process based on ElSewedy Competency Guide and Group strategic objectives.
• Supervise the Automation of the PM.
Manbeih is a newly established HR & Recruitment Consultancy, our primary activity is Permanent staff recruitment and Temporary Staffing for either single, large volume or ongoing staffing requirements. We recruit at all employment levels from junior to senior and across a broad range of employee categories and sectors. The service lines we offer include but are not limited to:
• Permanent & Temporary staff recruitment.
• Writing of HR policies and Employment manual ensuring compliance with labour law.
• Job descriptions and role accountabilies
A leading player in the global energy market with operations in 25 countries over 5 continents. Key business sectors - Exploration & production, Liquefied Natural Gas, and Transmission & Distribution. In Egypt, the asset has around 300 between employees and contractors.
• Developed and delivered strategy for delivery of Business Services i.e. Facilities Management, Property, and Fleet to cater for business needs.
• Measured the quality of service delivery, monitored KPI’s and expenses of all third party FM service providers to agreed budgets.
• Managed demand for business services contracts.
• Delivered Anti-Bribery and Ethical conduct project with C&P department to Good Corporation.
• Managed the Administration building Move from Maadi to New Cairo, below some of key achieved targets:
o FM tendering process
o Catering tendering process
o Actual move of staff and stuff
o Shutting down 9 buildings in Maadi either to be returned to LL or to be moved to a new tenant to reduce refurbishment cost.
Remuneration:
• Provided advice on remuneration strategy of the asset for national employees and contractors through market data analysis and across the group standards.
• Designed and updated locals’ reward and compensation scheme after getting the buy in from management and as per updated market data.
• Created salary levels for all employees as new joiners and as part of the annual salary review processes.
• Managed payroll team who is responsible for delivering all payments to national employees, and managed all related stakeholders such as social insurance, tax department, auditors, EGAS.
Reward
• Managed annual reward scheme including annual performance bonus, special bonus scheme, shares option, and deferred schemes.
Policies
• Created Egypt’s specific policies which are worked in conjunction with Group’s standards such as International assignees policy, employment manual for national staff and national contractors, and Business travel and Expenses policy.
• Acted as HR focal point in all grievances investigations internally and externally (labour office).
Grade and Salary Evaluation
• Reviewed roles’ accountabilities and advised on correct grading levels.
HR Systems
• Ensured 100% Data integrity on SAP and Hits.
• Recommended improvements in HR annual processes with Group counterparts.
Stakeholders Management
• Built and maintained external relationships with local entities such as labour office, social insurance, EGPC auditors, and Tax department.
• Managed internal relationships between Finance, Legal, Global mobility team, Group reward team, and management team.
Succession Planning & Talent Management
• Worked with VPs and asset AGM in identifying critical business positions.
• Identified talent pool from both internal and external sources.
• Kicked off the first graduate programme as a long term source of talents.
• Created a process of linking succession to development, by creating individual development plan for high potential candidates and those identified as successors.
Sourcing
• Identified sources of high calibers based on BP and approved Headcount plans.
• Managed university relationships such as AUC, and Technical colleges in Cairo and Suez universities.
Headcount Planning
• Managed budgeting for manpower planning for BG Egypt asset by working closely with management team members and business line managers as well as budgeting and planning finance team members.
Selection and Recruitment
• Implemented new system for C.V. database that enables targeted search (WCN).
• Trained line managers to conduct interviews.
• Conducted interviews for all different positions.
Performance Management
• Managed the implementation and maintenance of the BG performance management process. Was involved in direct conversation with line managers about APR, IDDs for their staff.
• Ensured that employees received necessary feedback on performance related issues.
Training and Development
• Developed and overlooked the implementation of corporate/local training strategies and plans ensuring that employees across the business have the necessary technical and behavioral skills.
• Owned training budget as per identified training needs/gaps.
• Coached and educated line managers with APR/IDDs and GDRs processes through conducting general sessions and targeted team sessions.
International Management Institute
(Jan 03-April 2005) Programs and Education Manager
- Established affiliations with well-established educational institutions worldwide.
- Supervise the day-to-day operations of maintaining different programs.
- Establish an annual marketing plan for increasing the current programs awareness and sales.
- Evaluate the market responses to new programs offered
- Communicate different programs to individual and corporate clients.
• Managed all trade finance products (letters of credit, letters of guarantees, and bills of collections).
• Increased client’s satisfaction by improving the quality of service delivered.
• Handled custody transactions of buying, selling, and maintaining investor’s records.
• Managed all foreign exchange transactions within the operational plans to achieve pre-set objectives.
• Insured timely and quality delivery within different counterparts.
Citibank N.A-Amman
Custody Officer (April 95- Aug 98)
- Handled custody transactions of buying, selling, maintaining investor’s records.
- Managed all foreign exchange transactions within the operational plans to achieve pre-set objectives.
- Insured timely and quality delivery within different counterparts.
- Met department’s targets.
MBA- Masters Degree in Business Administration The American University in Cairo AUC, class 2003 Concentration: Marketing and International Business Deans list with highest honors GPA 3.852
BA in Economics The American University in Cairo AUC, June 1994 Deans list with High honors, GPA 3.52.