Nosheen Malik

Led and developed a team of six HR professionals, strengthening capability, accountability and service delivery across eight business
units supporting 900+ employees, partnering with Directors and Vice Presidents on workforce planning and HR strategy.
• Served as the primary HR Business Partner to Finance, Operations, and Engineering leadership, translating business unit
priorities into workforce plans that shape annual headcount and budget decisions.
• Led annual manpower planning, headcount forecasting, and workforce budgeting in partnership with Finance, directly informing
executive resourcing decisions.
• Delivered 70% workforce growth while maintaining full compliance with UAE Labour Law and internal governance
requirements.
• Built a Power Apps-based HRIS with automated dashboards and workforce reporting, replacing manual tracking and improving
leadership visibility into workforce data.
• Managed the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, compensation, employee relations, compliance, payroll
coordination, and offboarding, while maintaining continuous audit readiness.
• Designed and implemented an employee relations framework that enabled managers to resolve 90% of workplace concerns at
business unit level, reducing escalations to Group HR by 60% while strengthening manager capability and employee experience.
• Led Emiratization strategy, succession planning, and organizational design while serving on interview panels for senior
engineering and leadership appointments.
• Partnered with senior leadership during organizational change initiatives, aligning workforce structures, communication and
people strategies with evolving business priorities.
• Supported employee engagement initiatives and manager capability programs that strengthened employee experience and
workplace culture.

Directed Group HR operations for a multinational oil & gas drilling organization supporting 1, 000+ employees across the GCC and international markets, overseeing both blue-collar field operations and corporate functions.
● Spearheaded manpower planning, workforce budgeting and organizational structuring across multinational operations, aligning HR strategy with business growth objectives.
● Designed recruitment strategies for bulk and specialist hiring across engineering, manufacturing and drilling operations, including offer management and salary negotiation, reducing time-to-fill by 30 days through improved sourcing.
● Maintained an unbroken nine-year record of zero compliance breaches across labor, immigration, payroll, end-of-service benefits and data privacy regulation in every jurisdiction.
● Implemented compensation benchmarking, job evaluations and salary structure reviews across multiple jurisdictions to maintain competitive and compliant reward frameworks.
● Directed regional employee benefits and vendor partnerships — insurance, EOSB administration and medical providers — optimizing cost, service quality and employee value.
● Implemented integrated performance management, leadership development and succession planning frameworks, including performance-linked pay and rewards systems, increasing employee retention by 60% while maintaining 100% audit-ready compliance.
● Built and led the regional HR team while implementing a self-service HR platform for 1, 000+ remote field employees, reducing HR request turnaround time by 70%.

Delivered end-to-end recruitment for technical, engineering and operations talent supporting drilling projects and business expansion across the UAE and Pakistan.
● Managed onboarding, workforce mobilization, payroll, employee relations and day-to-day HR operations to support uninterrupted project execution across field and project teams.
● Collaborated with operational leaders to ensure timely crew mobilization and workforce readiness for new projects and rig activations.