Senior HR Manager
Gems Education
Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months
• Partner with eight business units in the UAE across different industries to support the education sector (retail, maintenance, catering, security, sports and leadership training) and provide strategic and tactical HR support to cover all spectrum of HR functions for a population of 1, 700 employees across all businesses
• Lead an HR team of 10 professionals across the business units, monitor the deliverables, conduct performance reviews and drive the training agenda for their development
• Drive HR due diligence in M&A context in new market entries, KSA and Egypt
• Lead the HR integration agenda following deal closures both in the UAE and overseas markets
• Act as an advisory and subject matter expert in Strategic Management reviews
• Work towards an HR shared service model that drives efficiency and speed in delivery across the business units
• Champion employer branding, HR digitization and talent development initiatives
Overall accountability for all recruitment demands for the Operations & Technical resources for various Shell entities in Iraq and UAE.
Develop, implement, and execute the recruitment strategy, this includes experienced hires & graduates for the Shell businesses in Iraq and UAE.
Work in close partnership with different specialist teams to capture and proposed relevant advertising channels including professional organizations, educational institutions and high profile job fairs and alliances.
Develop recruitment forecasts in close partnership with the HR country manager and business leaders. Provide guidance for the hiring managers on candidates' availability in the market, resourcing options and associated cost estimates for end
to end recruitment campaign & process.
Apply global recruitment process in delivering the Iraq HR and UAE strategic priorities for talents & high-performance & potential staff.
Provide coaching and advice to the hiring managers for them to be competent in using appropriately structured behavioural and technical selection tools. Develop, implement and manage different selection practices for assessing & evaluating candidates.
In partnership with Legal, provide steer on regulatory & compliance issues related to recruitment and selection criteria.
Interface and act as HR ambassador for Recruitment to the business/external stakeholders; SOC (South Oil Company) and Iraq governance.
Trained a recruitment team of three direct reports, increasing department productivity and using the power of delegation.
Team Leadership: setting vision and targets for the team.
Six month short term international assignment, focusing on strengthening the Employee Relations/Industrial Relations (ER/IR)
knowledge and build the expertise. The assignment included working on:
Working hours: provided due diligence view of the current labour practices issues on working hours for Shell in 15 operated ventures.
ER/IR risk in contractor labour; managed ER/IR issues related to the use of contract labour proactively to avoid business disruption and to avoid legal exposure due to inequities for Shell.
Compliance cases: acted as a regional focal point for compliance cases in MENA and Russia/Caspian.
Shell people survey (SPS); member of the Central Project Team as a gatekeeper for requests for special reports and responsible for the ER/IR analytics of the SPS results.
As a Shell Secondee, I provided organizational effectiveness consulting services to the Joint Venture.
Supported South Gas Venture Integration team in Venture setup and structure Coordination with HR Third party consultants.
Onboarded 5000 secondees from South Gas Company into new Joint Venture, Basra Gas Company.
Act as ambassador between Shell Secondees and governance organization in Shell, ensured secondees remains connected to the parent companies.
Networking and working directly with JV HR to ensure partnership is executed in professional manners.
Drove improvement initiatives for on boarding and transfer process of JV staff.
Planning, design and delivery support with staff engagement activities, including regular town hall session.
Managing HR change processes and implementation. Collaborated with HR peers in UAE to ensure consistency and alignment for the execution of JV HR policies.
Supported HR manager in developing and implementing a localization strategy for the JV.
Designed suitable terms and conditions for the new Iraq local company, where roll out of all HR and Administration policies is ensured in alignment with the Shell HR agenda for this venture.
Developing and maintaining a long-term succession plan for staff continuity including Capital
projects.
Facilitated stakeholder (Shell, the South Oil Company, Petronas, local authorities and local interest groups)
communications and engagement sessions to increase affiliation and removing barriers to the HR agenda.
Delivered necessary support required to ensure effective management for the secondment (and later on direct hires) of local staff.
Negotiated First Commercial Production bonuses for South Oil Company secondees and their management at the exempt level; first of its kind on Shell corporate level.
Designed and delivered Iraq fit Diversity & Inclusion engagement sessions.
Demonstrate commitment and responsibility for Health Safety Security Environment (HSSE) and promoting safety conscious behavior, with external parties and internally
Developed, managed and executed Shell Iraq Employee Relations (ER) processes, including secondment agreement, alignment & coordination with the MENA regional polices, compensation & Benefits, Shell experts ER/IR network, local staff representation and Shell Iraq Learning & Development.
Regularly use Data, market surveys and general market intelligence to ensure alignment with Iraq locally implemented HR policies.
Provided advisory for Long Term Incentive Plans & systems implementation for various companies in MENA region.
Assisted the Human Resources Effectiveness team with advisory services.
Designed & implemented HR Service Delivery Solutions.
Designed & implemented training plans.
Lead market-development initiatives and the Mercer's Executive Majlis; Organized seminars and round tables for companies in Dubai, Kuwait and Bahrain with a focus on public sector human resources and incentive plans management; first of its kind for Mercer in the region.
Lead executive remuneration guide surveys in the region.
Conducted employment verifications and investigations.
Providing clients with the proposals for the design and implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards.
Being responsible for requesting the needed data.
Project managing multiple accounting projects.
Developing Introduction programs for new joiners.
Uncertainty Analysis in Economic Evaluations: My focus was on how to make people more aware of the risks and uncertainties in economic evaluations and to show the influence of these uncertainties on the economic indicators. Economic evaluations in the oil industry are carried out with cash flow models. Traditionally, these evaluations are carried out with the estimated (most likely) set of parameters. Usually some parameters, such as project costs or reserves, are varied manually as ‘sensitivities’ to show the potential impact on profitability. In my thesis, it is proposed to treat the uncertainties by defining stochastic parameters with carefully specified supports based on inputs from discipline experts. In this manner a better insight is gained in the distribution of the project profitability. Some of the key uncertainties in oil and gas investments have been investigated in detail.